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BIOGRAPHICAL  REVIEW 


THIS  VOLUME  CONTAINS  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  OF 
LEADING  CITIZENS  OF  THE 

PROVINCE   OF   NEW 
BRUNSWICK 

UNDER  THE   EDITORIAL   SUPERVISION    OF   I.  ALLEN   JACK,  Q.C.,  D.C.L. 


"  Biography  is  the  most  universally  pleasant,  universally  protitable,  of  all  reading." — Carlyle. 


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NOTE. 


All  the  biograpl'^cal  sketches  published  in  this  volume  were  sulmiitteil  to  their  respective  subjects  or  to  the  sub- 
scribers, from  whom  the  facts  were  primarily  obtained,  for  their  approval  or  correction  l)eforc  going  to  press,  ami  a 
reasonable  time  was  allowed  in  each  case  for  the  return  of  the  typewritten  copies  or  proofs.  Most  of  them  were  returned  to 
us  within  the  time  allotted,  or  before  tliu  work  was  printed,  after  being  corrected  or  revised;  and  these  may  therefore  be 
regarded  as  reasonably  accurate. 

A  few,  however,  were  not  returned  lo  us;  and,  ;is  we  have  no  means  of  knowing  whether  they  contain  errors  or 
not,  we  cannot  vouch  for  their  ;Kcur;icy.  In  Justice  to  our  readers,  and  to  render  this  work  more  valuable  for  reference 
purposes,  we  have  indicated  all  uncorrected  sketches  by  a  small  asterisk  (*),  phiced  immediately  after  the  name  of  the 
subject. 

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PREFACE. 


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WHEN  the  nineteenth  century  shall  have  completed  its  course  at  the  close  of  the 
current  year,  its  records  will  exhibit  evidence  of  vitality,  activity,  and  varied 
and  momentous  achievements  unequalled  and  even  unapproached  in  any  pre- 
ceding period  of  like  duration.  To  fully  appreciate  the  history  of  any  period,  a  knowl- 
edge of  its  actors  is  as  important  as  a  comprehension  of  its  results,  cs]K>cially  with 
reference  to  the  hundred  years  so  soon  to  be  completed,  as  during  their  passage  the 
influence  of  the  individual  has  been  generally  and  phenomenally  extended.  It"is  not 
every  man  who  is  born  to  be  a  hero  or  a  leader;  but  each  human  unit,  under  reason- 
ably fa\orable  circumstances,  contributes  something  to  the  welfare  and  the  history  of 
society.  To  know  the  world  or  any  part  of  it  well  in  this  advanced  stage  of  human 
progress,  one  must  have  a  large  acquaintance  with  individuals,  being  thus"led  to  recog- 
nize representative  characters,  to  discern  types.  I-ew  will  deny  that  biography  is  tl^e 
most  interesting  form  of  history,  and  that  contemporary  biography  has  Tn  attractive- 
ness and  value  peculiarly  its  own. 

Our  experience  in  publishing  volumes  of  local  biography,  largely  demoted  to  New 
Kngland-witnessour  Atlantic  Series,  thirty-three  volumes— has  convinced  us  that 
such  bt.oks  meet  a  want  of  the  times,  and  has  encouraged  us  to  undertake  a  similar 
enterprise  in  behalf  of  our  neighbors  and  kinsfolk.  Her  Majesty's  loyal  subjects  across 
the  border.  (Jf  these  some  are  "Mayflower"  descendants,  and  many  are  numbered 
among  the  posterity  of  the  Loyalists  of  ,783,  who,  when  the  independence  of  the  thir- 
teen colonies  had  been  secured,  attested  their  allegiance  to  the  crown  by  seeking  a 
new  home  in  Acadia. 

The  ])resent  issue  of  the  Rkvikw,  the  first  in  our  Canadian  Series,  may  be  briefly 
set  forth  as  an  answer  in  part  to  the  question  of  "Who's  who.'"  in  New  Brunswick 
to-day.  It  is  a  book  of  facts,  facts  in  the  lives  of  persons  of  prominence  and  influence 
•n  the  Provmce.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  people  have  ft.und  life  worth  living  in  pro- 
I'-rtu.n   as  they  have  made  themselves  useful  in  their  day  and   generatiom     These 


PREFACE 


pages  tell  of  earnest  workers  in  various  fields  of  activity,  of  some  who,  as  farmers, 
mechanics,  manufacturers,  merchants,  tradesmen,  have  taken  a  conspicuous  part  in 
developing  the  material  resources  of  the  country,  of  others  who  have  devoted  their 
energies  to  the  practice  of  law  or  medicine,  the  concerns  of  government,  the  dissemina- 
tion of  learning,  or  the  advancement  of  reHgion. 

A  distinguishing  feature  of  the  book,  as  of  its  predecessors,  published  by  us  for 
other  localities,  is  the  attention  given  to  genealogy,  formerly  the  fad  of  the  few,  now 
a  recogni/.ed  branch  of  the  humanities  and  a  firm  substratum  for  biography. 

We  gratefully  acknowledge  our  indebtedness  lo  numerous  friends  who  by  cordial 
co-operation  have  aided  in  our  work,  and  especially  to  Mr.  I.  Allen  Jack,  Q.C.,  to  whose 
knowledge  of  local  history  and  biography,  wide  circle  of  acquaintances,  and  sagacious 
supervision  its  success  in  large  measure  is  to  be  attributed. 


HIOCR.M'IIICAL   REVIEW  PUHLISHING  COMPANY. 


HosioN,  Mass.,  I'.S.A. 
June,  1900. 


EDITOR'S  PREFACE. 


IT  is  needless  to  add  largely  to  what  is  so  compicliensively  cxiMx-ssed  by  the  pub- 
lishers in  their  jjreface,  but  a  few  supplementary  words  may  not  be  ret^^irded  as 
superfluous. 

In  ancient  times  certain  tribes  and  nations  not  only  reverenced  but  actually  wor- 
shijjped  their  departed  ancestry,  and  even  to-day  it  is  jjossible  to  indicate  races  pe- 
culiarly addicted  to  adherence  to  primitive  usages,  engaged  in  the  ])ractice  of  this 
singular  cult. 

Without  lending  support  to  this  venerable  species  of  adoration,  is  it  entirely  i)roper 
to  advocate  reverence  for  die  persons  or  the  memories  oi  those  through  whom  we 
exist.  Well-regulated  family  pride  is  indeed  a  concomitant,  if  not  an  element,  of 
patriotism,  and  an  essential  quality  for  the  maintenance  and  advancement  of  society. 
But,  in  order  to  render  it  truly  cfificacious,  creed  and  practice  must  go  hand  in  hand: 
the  jewel  transmitted  to  unworthy  keeping  soon  loses  lustre,  the  buried  skeleton 
cannot  maintain  the  standard  without  the  aid  of  the  living  descendant.  And,  further, 
such  a  pride  should  be  felt,  but  not  expressed,  at  least  in  words:  the  boaster  is  usually, 
an^l  ^encraily  with  propriety,  classed  as  a  snob  when  glorying  in  his  own  achievement, 
nor  can  he  claim  exemption  from  the  term  when  he  relies  upon  what  has  been  achieved 
by  another. 

The  foregoing  remarks  apply  especially  to  those  who  have  gained  honor,  at  least  in 
part,  by  inheritance;  but  they  are  not  inapplicable  to  an  important  class  of  persons,  the 
self-made.  Whether  at  the  beginning  or  in  the  middle  of  a  series  of  human  entities, 
an  individual,  if  not  in  duty  bound,  is,  at  least,  acting  rightly  and  wisely,  and  not  self- 
ishl)-,  in  seeking  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of  what  has  been  meritoriously  accom- 
plished or  acquired  by  himself  and  by  those  from  whom  he  sjjrung. 

The  history  of  New  Brunswick  since  its  inception  under  that  name  is  nearly  con- 
temporaneous with  that  of  the  nineteenth  century.  It  was,  at  least,  only  seventeen 
years  before  the  close  of  the  jireceding  century  that  those  from  the  old  colonies  who 


KDITOR'S    PREFACE 


adhered  to  the  liritisli  crown  reached  her  shores.  It  is  only  natural  that  the  landing  of 
the  Loyalists  is  generally  regarded  as  the  most  important  epoch  recorded  in  the  Provin- 
cial annals,  and  that  such  of  the  inhabitants  as  are  able  to  trace  descent  from  Loyalist 
stock  find  in  the  fact  a  source  of  special  satisfaction.  lUit  many  of  those  who  make 
no  claim  to  such  descent  are  entitled  to  other  inherited  honors  of  unquestionable  char- 
acter and  ancient  origin.  Among  the  French-speaking  Acadians  are  some  whose 
remote  ancestors  occupied  the  highest  places,  and  were  connected  with  events  some- 
times of  even  more  than  national  importance.  A  perusal  of  the  following  pages  will 
demonstrate  that  the  same  may  be  alleged  of  many  of  luiglish,  Irish,  Scottish,  or 
Colonial  birth  or  parentage,  where  family  tradition  has  been  j^reserved  with  reverence 
and  care.  Ikit  to  an  ardent  American,  whether  monarchist  or  republican,  the  gather- 
ing together  in  this  locality  at  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War  of  many  of  the  most 
exalted  personages  from  the  older  Provinces  is  profoundly  interesting.  New  ICngiand, 
the  midland  and  the  southern  districts,  all  contributed  their  quotas  to  this  goodly 
company,  and  with  them  a  store  of  memories  of  old  "  new  world"  incidents  and  ex- 
periences, songs  and  tales,  to  form  a  portion  of  the  folk-lore  of  New  Brunswick.  While 
its  people  rejoice  in  their  British  connection,  they  are  proud  of  their  continental  heri- 
tage, and  boldly  claim  a  place  among  those  who  best  represent  the  bravest,  wisest,  and 
goodliest  persons  who,  in  the  days  gone  by,  came  to  stay  in  this  happy  quarter  of 
the  sjlobe. 

The  reader  will  find  in  this  volume  a  great  deal  of  most  interesting  information  in 
regard  to  many  distinctly  representative  persons  and  families  of  the  Province ;  and  it 
may  be  truly  alleged  that  in  substance,  perhaps  especially  in  completeness  of  statement 
and  in  form,  the  book  is  admirably  fitted  to  largely  supply  a  heretofore  well-nigh  neg- 
lected w-ant.  Owing  to  the  failure  of  a  number  of  persons  to  avail  themselves  of  the 
opportunity  afforded  by  this  publication,  many  important  genealogical  data  well  worth 
recording  do  not  appear;  but  this,  though  regrettable,  has  no  effect  upon  the  value  (>f 

what  has  been  accomplished  by  the  promoters. 

I.  ALLEN  JACK. 


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I.   AI.I.KN    JACK,   (j.C\,    IJ.C.l.. 


BIOSRAPHIGAL. 


-^/SA.vf    .\i.i.i;n  jack,  uc, 

!).('.  1,.,  hill  ri.stcr-at-law  ami  tor- 
incrly  Recorder  (if  the  lity  of 
e)^-r^/.»  St.  John,  was  horn  in  St.  John, 
:^^  June  26,  1843,  a  son  of  William 
i^»  Jack,  (>.L'.  His  paternal  'M'iind- 
Jo  father  was  David  William  Jaciv, 
who  came  to  New  Uruiiswiek 
from  Cooper  I'"ife,  Scotland.  David  W.  Jack 
married  Rebecca,  a  daa,;;liler  of  I'lionias  Wyer, 
one  of  the  Loyalists  of  17S3,  who  had  served 
the  crown  as  Lieutenant  Colonel  durin;^'  the 
Revolutionary  War,  and  who  came  to  St.  An- 
drews, N.  li. ,  from  what  was  then  Falmouth, 
Mass.,  but  is  now  I'oitland,  \[e. 

William  Jack,  O.C,  father  of  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  was  born  in  St.  i\ndrew,s,  Char- 
lotte County,  in  iSii.  He  was  educated  in 
his  native  town,  and  on  arrivin,i;-  at  niaturitv 
made  choice  of  the  law  as  his  jirofession. 
After  l)ein,i;-  admitted  to  the  bar  he  removed  to 
St.  Cieorf,'e,  where  he  remained  until  about 
1S40,  when  he  removed  to  St.  John,  and  soon 
.secured  a  large  and  remunerative  practice. 
He  was  for  some  years  Master  in  Chancery, 
and  was  also  Advocate-general.  Aside  from 
a  good  understanding  of  his  jirofession,  espe- 
cially in  equity,  he  had  a  wide  general   knowl- 


edge   in    lileiatnre   anil    natural     science.        A 
lover  of  nature  and  devoted   to   his   faniilv,  his 
favorite  recreation  was  the   beautifying  of  his 
home,    Carigleagh,    and   many   of   his   hapi)iest 
hours  were  spent   in   the  garden.      Ho  was  one 
of  the  charter  members  and   vice-president  of 
the  .Mechanics'    Institute  of   St.  John  and  pres- 
ident of  the   Natural   History  Society  of  New 
i^runswick,  and   he  was  al.so   chairman   of  the 
town  of   I'ortland,  warden  of  the  municiiiality 
of  St.  John,  and  president  of  the  St.  John  Law 
Society.     1  le  married  ICnima  Carleton,  daughter 
of  Captain  Joseph  Kenah,  of  the  One  Hundred 
and    Fourth    Regiment.      Her    mother,    whose 
maiden   name  was   Mary  Allen,  was  a  daughter 
of    Isaac  Allen  (for  whom   the  subject   of   this 
sketch  was  named),  a  Loyalist   from   New    [er- 
.sey,  who  served  under  the  crown  as  Lieutenant 
Colonel,   and    who    upon    his    ariival    in    New 
Brunswick   in    17.S3   was  appointed   one  of   the 
Judges  of   the  Supreme  Court  of  the  jirovince. 
A  grand.son  of  his  was  Sir  John  C.  Allen,  the 
late  Chief  Justice.     William  and  luiima  Carle- 
ton  Jack  were  the  parents  of   eleven   children, 
of   whom    the   two  eldest,   twins,   died  young. 
I'he  other  nine  still  survive. 

Lsaac    .\llen   Jack,    after   receiving   his   ele- 
mentary education,  became  a  pupil   of  the   late 


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Canon  Lee,  iinilcr  whom  lie  stii.ied  for  se\eral 
years.  He  then  entered  the  Collegiate  Sehool 
at  Fredeiicion,  and,  after  followini,'  the  regular 
course  there,  matricuhitetl  at  Kind's  CollL';;e, 
Freclericton,  aflj^rward  removing  to  King's 
College,  Windsor,  N.  S. ,  where  in  1.S63  he 
received  the  degree  of  Jiachclor  of  Arts.  In 
1877  e  receive''  from  the  last  mentioned  col- 
lege the  degree  of  Hachclor  of  (!ivil  Law  and 
in  1884  that  of  Doctor  of  Civil  Law.  U])on 
leaving  college  he  began  the  study  of  law  with 
hiS  father,  and  was  admitted  attorney  in  Octo- 
ber, 1866,  and  barrister  the  following  year. 
He  was  a|)|)ointed  Kecorder  of  St.  John  in 
April,  1885,  and  was  again  appointed  to  that 
office  in  1889,  u|)on  the  union  of  the  city  of 
St.  John  with  that  of  Portland.  He  was 
created  (J.  C.  March  18,  1891.  On  the  death 
of  Mayor  Harker  in;  filled  the  \acant  office 
until  the  election  of  a  new  mayor,  at  the  same 
time  ))erfornvng  his  duties  as  Kecorder. 

Mr.  Jack  is  a  member  of  .St.  Andrew's  So- 
ciety and  of  the  Loyalists'  .Society  of  New 
Brunswick;  a  fellow  of  the  Literal)  and  His- 
torical Society  of  (juebec;  fellow  of  the  Hali- 
burton  Society,  Windsor,  N.  S.  ;  a  member  of 
the  Associated  Alumni  'f  King's  College, 
Windsor,  N..S.  ;  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  tile 
Law  .ScIkioI  of  St.  John,  conducted  in  coiiuec 
tion  with  King's  I'ollegc,  Windsor;  and  a 
member  of  the  New  Hrunswick  Historical 
Societ)'.  He  was  for  manv  years  a  member  of 
the  Hoard  of  Directors  and  for  two  _\ears  piesi- 
dent  of  the  Mechanics'  Institute  of  St.  John. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Church  oi  hjiglanil,  and 
in  politics  is  a  Liberal.     He  takes  great  inter- 


est in  literary  work,  and  has  contributed  to 
various  magazines  and  journals  and  learned  so- 
cieties. Owing  to  ill-health  he  resigned  his 
office  of  Recorder  at  the  close  of  1894,  and 
retired  from  actixe  life  in  the  ensuing  June. 


(7i-)I  OLLINGWORTH  TULLY  KING- 
DON,  D.D.,  D.C.L.,  Church  of 
I';ngland  Bishop  of  New  Briinswick, 
was  born  in  London,  iMigland,  April  16,  1835. 
The  family  of  which  he  is  a  worthy  rejiresenta- 
tive  has  been  traced  back  to  the  year  1450; 
;uul  an  account  of  its  origin,  together  with  its 
coat  of  arms,  ma}'  be  foimd  in  books  of 
heraldry. 

Bishop  Kingdon  began  his  edi.cation  in  St. 
Paul's  Sehool,  London,  where  he  was  cajnain 
of  the  school.  In  1858  he  graduated  at  Trin- 
ity College,  Cambridge.  He  was  granted  a 
place  in  the  honor  list  in  mathematics;  but, 
as  he  fell  sick  and  could  not  finish  the  exami- 
nation, he  was  ncjt  classed.  He  was  then  for 
a  year  at  Cuddesdon  College,  under  Canon 
H.  P.  Lidilon,  where  he  was  elected  scholar. 
He  was  ordained  Deacon  by  Bishop  Wilher- 
force,  of  Oxford,  and  priest  by  Bishoji  H.uniP 
ton,  of  .Salisbury.  l"or  about  three  years  and 
a  half  he  was  cinate  of  Sturniinster  Marshall, 
and  he  suhsec|uently  officiated  in  a  like  capac- 
ity tor  two  years  at  Devizes,  ''hen  for  a 
period  of  five  years  he  was  \'ice-]irincipal  of 
Salisbmy  Theological  College,  after  which  for 
nine  years  he  was  curate  of  St.  Andrew's 
Church,  Wells  .Street,  London.  .Subsequently 
for  some  time  he  wa*^  \icar  of  Good  Kastcr  (a 


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II 


ibiited  1(1 
;arnccl  so- 
;ij;iiC(l  his 
1894,  ami 
-June. 


•  KIXG- 
rhurch  (if 
{rnnswick, 

16,  1835. 
rciircscnai- 
;car  1450; 
L-v  with  its 

l)(i(iks    (it 

ion   in  St. 
,'ar,  cajitain 
d  at  'I'rin- 
f^rantcd  a 
atics;  hut, 
th(j  cxami- 
is   then  fur 
ler    Canim 
1   schohu'. 
.   \Vilh(.'r- 
ip   llaniil- 
ycars  ami 
Marshall, 
ike  capac- 
hen    f(ir    a 
rinci])al  of 
which  for 
Anilrew's 
iset[uent]y 
I'.astcr  (a 


corruption  of  "God's  Easter"),  near  Chelms- 
fiird.  While  there  he  was  elected  Coadjutor 
Hishop  of  Frcdericton,  and  was  consecrated 
|uly  10,  1881.  In  the  same  year  he  received 
his  (l(.!'ree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  at  Cambridge, 
iMT'land,  in  1892  that  of  l^octor  of  Divinity 
from  King's  College,  Windsor,  N.S.,  and 
later  that  of  Doctor  of  Civil  Law  from  Trinity 
College,  Toronto,  Canada. 

A  man  of  earnest  purjiose  and  scholarly  at- 
tainments, Hishop  Kingdon  has  not  only  faith- 
fully and  efficiently  ])erf(irnied  the  high  duties 
(if  his  .sacred  office,  but  has  also  contributed 
effectively  by  his  pen  and  otherwise  to  advance 
the  cause  of  religion  and  pure  morality.  In 
1873  he  wrote  a  book  entitled  "I-'asting  Com- 
munion" (published  by  Longmans,  Green  & 
Co.).  This  work,  so  full  of  erudite  references 
as  to  be  practically  inianswerable  by  church- 
men of  different  views,  attracted  so  much  at- 
tention in  ecclesiastical  circles  as  to  cause  the 
luiblication  of  a  seconc,  edition  in  1875.  He 
is  also  the  author  of  a  iwmphlet  on  "Divorce," 
the  main  tenets  of  which  have  since  been 
crystallized  into  part  of  the  reimit  of  the  Lower 
House  of  Convocation  of  York,  l'".ngland. 
This  pamphlet  was  written  while  he  was  serv- 
ing on  the  Church  Committee  on  Divorce, 
having  been  ap[iointed  by  the  bisho])s  of  the 
I^cclesiastical  I'mvince  of  Canada.  In  1 8go 
Bishop  Kingdon  was  appointed  to  deli\'(M"  the 
"Hishop  I'addock  lectures"  at  the  General 
Theological  -Seminary  at  New  Vork,  being  the 
first  ;dien  to  act  in  this  capacilv.  In  1888 
and  iS();  he  attended  the  Conference  of  Hish- 
|is  at  Lambeth,  ]'",nglaml.      He  is  a  deep   stu- 


dent and  lover  of  books,  and  the  posscs.sor  of  a 
large  and  valuable  library,  coi-.taining  some 
w  irks  so  rare  as  to  be  almost  priceless. 
Among  them  is  a  Latin  manuscript  dated 
i^fiS.  He  ha.->  not  yet  found  time  to  cata- 
logue the  books,  and  does  not  himself  know 
how  many  there  are. 

In  i8(j)0  Hishop  Kingdon  was  married,  in 
the  cathedral,  l-'redericton,  N.  H.,  to  Anna 
Beverley,  daughter  of  Lieutenant  Colonel 
Beverley  ^Vdino  Robinson  and  widow  of 
George  William  Marsh.  One  child,  a  daugh- 
ter, Anna  I'hilliiiiis  Lenorden,  has  been  born 
of  this  union.  Mrs.  Kingdon's  first  husband, 
by  whom  she  has  two  daughters,  was  a  de- 
scendant of  Archbishop  Marsh,  of  Dublin, 
through  bis  son,  who  married  a  daughter  of 
Bishop  Jeremy  Taylor. 

Mrs.  Kingdon  is  of  the  fifth  generation  in 
descent  ficr  Colonel  Beverly  Robinson,  who 
commanded  a  reginicnt  of  Loyalists  in  the 
American  Revolution.  As  is  well  known, 
lieverly  Robinson  was  an  early  friend  and 
schoolniate  of  Washington.  He  married  Su- 
sanne  Vhilipsc,  daughter  of  I''rederick  I'hilipse, 
second  lord  of  the  manor  of  I'hilipseborough, 
N.V.  ;  and  it  was  at  his  home  in  New  Vork 
that  Washington  in  1756  met  and  admired 
Mrs.  Robinson's  sister,  the  beautiful  ]\Iary 
I'hilijise,  co-heiress  with  her  of  a  large  estati;. 
"That  he  sought  her  hand,  and  was  refused,  is 
traditional,"  says  Irving. 

l-'rom  Colonel  Beverly  Robinson  tlie  line  of 
descent  is  through  his  son,  Beverly,  who  mar- 
ried .\  ina  D.  Barclay,  and  their  son,  Frederick 
I'hili|ise,  who  married    Jane    I'addock,  to    Bcv- 


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crlcy  Adini),  abuve  named  (Mrs.  Kinj,'(l()n's 
father),  who  married  his  cousi.i,  Anna  M., 
dniif;htcr  of  John  V.  and  Anna  (I'addock) 
Thurj;ar.  Mrs.  Kinj;don  s  grandniotiicrs  were 
sisters,  daui^jiiUrs  of  .\dino  J'addock,  M.I).,  of 
New  Hrunswick,  and  ;^rand-dauf;hters  of  ("ap- 
tain  Adino  I'addoek,  or  Majrjr  I'addock,  a  sub- 
stantial and  useful  citi/en  of  Boston,  Mass., 
in  prc-Rcvolutionary  times  sometimes  spoken 
of,  from  his  business  and  tlie  plaee  wiiere  lie 
had  his  Inisiness  training,  as  "the  London 
coach-maker,"  now  remenibered  as  a  public 
benefactor.  The  "Taddock  elms"  and  "I'ad- 
dock's  Mall,"  in  front  of  the  (iranary  15ur\  ing- 
i;round,  ivhich  tiiey  sliaded  foi"  upwards  of  one 
hunilred  years,  took  their  name  from  him,  he 
having  been  chiefly  instrumental  in  planting 
them  about  the  year  1762.  Captain  I'addock 
died  on  the  Isle  of  Jersey  in  1804. 

Bishop  Kingdon's  residence,  BnttreaiiA 
House,  is  thus  named  after  a  castle,  or  resi- 
dence, built  at  Bi;scastle,  Cornwall,  by  Sir 
Jonathan  I'liilli|ips,  .-.n  uncle  of  his  grand- 
motlier,  and  known  as  "liottreaux  Castle." 
Coiniected  with  the  name  is  a  well-known 
legend  of  liie  Cornish  coast.  It  seems  that 
some  centmies  ago  a  ship  with  a  cargo  of  iiells 
from  Spain  was  trying  to  make  port  at  Bos 
castle.  "Ah,"  saiil  the  pilot,  "tliank  (iod ! 
We  are  now  almost  safe!"  "No,"  said  the 
captain,  "tiiank  not  (iod,  but  the  good  ship 
and  the  cajjtain."  They  were  not  safe,  how- 
ever; and  the  vessel  foundered,  on  account,  it 
is  said,  of  the  captain's  i)laspliemy.  The 
acoustic  jiroperlies  of  tlie  caws  tiuit  line  the 
coast  are  such    that   at    times  they  give  foith 


sounds  like  those  of  the  ringing  of  a  peal  of 
bells.  If  a  peasant  is  asked  what  that  sound 
is,  he  will  reply,  "Bottrcau.\  bells."  In  the 
naming  of  his  attractive  and  commodious  resi- 
dence Bishop  Kingdon  is  tluis  perpetuating 
an  interesting  bit  of  the  folk  lore  of  his  native 
land. 

I 'II. 1 1'  NASI-:,  founder  of  the  firm  of 
l^-*'  r.  Nase  &  Son,  merchants,  St.  John, 
was  born  at  Nerepis,  parish  of  West- 
field,  N.  B. ,  April  2f),  1 82 1,  son  of  William 
H.  and  Charlotte  (Harding)  Nase.  He  was  a 
descendant  in  the  fifth  generation  of  Henry 
Nase,  who  was  born  in  Germany  in  1695,  and 
emigrated  to  America  in  1728.  Henry  Nase 
settled  in  Dutchess  County,  New  ^'()rk,  and 
resided  there  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
in    1759. 

Philip  Nase,  first,  son  of  Henry  and  great- 
grandfather of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was 
born  in  Germany  in  1724,  and  came  to  Amer- 
ica with  his  parents  when  four  years  ol  I. 
The  rest  of  his  life  was  s])ent  in  New  York, 
and  he  died  Cktober  10,  1805.  His  wife  was 
born  in  Dutchess  Cininty,  May  10,  1724, 
daughter  of  John  Dutcher,  a  native  of  I'ol- 
land.  .Slie  died  in  New  York,  l)eceml)er  7, 
1 80 1 . 

Their  son,  Colonel  Henry  Nase,  who  was 
born  June  28,  1752,  served  as  an  officer  in  the 
Britisli  army  with  General  Coffin  before  he 
had  attained  iiis  full  rank  during  the  Ameri- 
lan  Revolution,  and  settled  in  New  Bruns- 
wick   prior   to   the   coming   of   that    Loyalist. 


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a  jieal  <if 
that  sound 
"  In  the 
idioiis  icsi- 
jipeluating 
i  his  native 


the  firm  of 
s,  St.  John, 
sh  of  Wcst- 
of  William 
lie  was  a 
1  of  Henry 
n  1695,  and 
Henry  Nase 
/  York,  and 
ch  occurred 

and  great - 
sketch,  was 
ic  to  Amer- 

years    01 !. 

New  York, 

is  wile  was 
10,  1724, 
ive  of  I'.ol- 
)eceml)er  7, 

c,  who  was 
Ihcer  in  the 
before  he 
tlie  Anieri- 
•^ew  liruns- 
t   Loyalist. 


Locating  upon  a  tract  of  land  at  the  mouth  of 
the  Ncrepis  River,  in  the  parish  of  Wcstfield, 
he  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  and  for 
some  time  was  Judge  of  Probate  for  Kings 
County.  As  a  prominent  churchman  he  was 
lay  reader  whenever  the  parish  was  without  a 
resident  clergyman;  and,  ili^r"  being  no  churcii 
edifice  at  that  time,  services  were  held  in  pri- 
vate houses  or  in  a  large  barn  near  Alwington 
Manor,  the  residence  of  General  Coffin.  Sev- 
eral of  his  sons  were  baptized  in  that  build- 
ing. Colonel  Nase  died  in  May,  1836.  On 
Marcii  13,  1781S,  he  married  Jane  (Juinton, 
who  was  born  January  27,  17C7,  and  died  May 
29,  1S52.  They  reared  four  sons  and  six 
daughters,  William  H.  being  the  second  son 
and  tlie  f(iurtli-l)orn  child. 

William  11.  Nase,  the  father  of  I'hilip,  was 
born  .It  the  homestead  in  Ncrepis,  June  19, 
1793.  lie  was  engaged  in  general  farming 
(luring  the  active  period  of  his  life,  which 
terminated  June  6,  i<S8o.  Charlotte  Har'ing 
Nase,  his  wife,  whom  he  married  October  21, 
1817,  was  horn  July  4,  1794.  They  were  the 
parents  of  three  sons  and  seven  daughters; 
and  riiilip,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  the 
second  son  and  the  third-born  child. 

I'hilip  Nase  was  reared  ujion  the  homestead 
farm,  and  resided  there  until  1847.  Coming 
to  St.  John  in  that  year,  he  established  him- 
SL'II  in  mercantile  business  at  Indiantown, 
wIk'ic  lie  ••emained  in  trade  until  selling  out 
in  1S54.  Repurchasing  the  store. in  1861,  he 
carried  it  on  successfully  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  February  2,  1885.  He  was 
lighly   esteemed    by   his  business  associates, 


whose  confidence  he  had  gained  by  his  strict 
adherence  to  upright  principles;  and  his  many 
commendable  qualities  were  heartily  ap|)reci- 
ated  by  all  who  knew  him. 

Mr.  Nase  contracted  the  first  of  his  two 
marriages,  March  23,  1S47,  with  IClizabeth 
Mary  llamm,  daughter  of  David  Hamm,  of 
Westfield.  She  died  October  13,  1872.  On 
October  13,  1878,  he  married  for  his  second 
wife  Lydia  Ann  \'an  Wart.  He  was  the 
father  of  eleven  children,  ten  by  his  first  wife 
and  one  by  his  second,  namely:  IJavid  IF., 
born  h'ebriiary  3,  1848;  Mnry  M.,  born  Sep- 
tember 7,  1849,  who  married  Charles  K. 
Woodman;  Sarah  C,  born  April  22,  1851, 
who  died  April  29,  1868;  Leonard  Tilley, 
born  August  20,  1853;  George  H. ,  born  May 
16,  1857;  Helen  M. ,  who  married  Robert  H. 
I'aterson;  James  1'.,  born  January  26,  1863, 
who  is  now  residing  at  the  old  homestead  in 
Westfield;  Mathias  Hamm,  born  December 
26,  1864;  William  Henry,  born  November 
10,  1866;  I'rank,  born  May  15,  1869;  and 
Otto,  born  l'"chruary  5,  iSSi,  the  latter  by  the 
second  union. 

Leonard  Tilley  Nase,  who  is  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  1'.  Nase  &  Son,  successors  to  P. 
Nase,  married  .Susie  C.  Case,  and  has  one 
son,  i'hilip,  born  October  12,  1886.  George 
H. ,  who  is  residing  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  mar- 
ried I'jnily  H.  Roggenbau.  Mathias  Hamm 
Nase,  who  is  a  building  contractor  in  New 
York,  married  Adelaide  Louise  Ferrel. 
William  Henry,  who  is  also  in  the  firm  of 
1'.  Nase  &  Son,  married  Mary  Massie  l-'lem- 
ing.      I-'rank,    who    is   an   accountant    for    the 


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til! 


Anaconda    Mining  Company   of    Hiitte   City, 
Mont.,  marrieil  Mina  S.  Hcilge. 

The  late  Mr.  Mase  was  a  member  of  the 
Ciiurch  of  ICngland  and  for  some  years  a  ves- 
tryman of  St.  Luke's  Church,  and  toolc  a  deep 
interest  in  religious  work. 


rr^iiON.   hi;nrv   rohert   kmmkr- 

SON,  g.C,  of  Dorchester,  N.B., 
'leniier  of  the  Province  of  New 
l?iuiis\viek,  has  been  prominently  identified  with 
public  affairs  for  a  number  of  year.s,  and  is 
well  known  in  legal  circles.  A  son  of  the  late 
Rev.  Robert  II.  ICmmerson,  he  was  born  Sep- 
tember 25,  1853,  in  Maugerville,  \.15.  His 
paternal  grandfather,  John  I'jnmerson,  was  en- 
gaged in  lumbering  and  farming  in  New 
Hrunswick  during  his  earlier  life,  but  subse- 
quently removed  to  Minneajiolis,  Minn.,  where 
he  continued  his  chosen  occupation  until  his 
deatl".,  at  a  good  old  age.  His  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  wa.s  Maria  Tozer,  attained  the 
venerable  age  of  ninety  years.  'I'hcy  had  nine 
children,  f)f  whom  five  are  now  li\ing. 

Robert  11.  ICnnneisdu  was  the  third  cjiild  of 
John  and  Maria  I'Jnmerson.  After  obtaining 
the  rudiments  of  his  education  in  the  district 
school,  he  studieil  first  at  the  Baptist  Semi- 
nary in  I''redericton  and  later  at  Acadia  Col- 
lege in  Now'i  Scotia.  On  lea\ing  the  latter 
institution  he  prejiared  for  the  niinistrv,  and 
then  accepted  a  call  to  the  Baptist  cluuch  in 
Maugerville,  Sunliur)-  County,  where  he  re- 
mained some  time.  He  snbsec|ncntly  became 
the  pastor  of  the   Baptist   church   at   Moncton, 


X.  B. ,  and  was  jireaching  there  at  the  time  of 
his  death,  which  occurred  when  he  was  but 
thirty-one  years  old.  He  married  Augusta, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Read,  of  Minudie,  N.  S.  ; 
and  she  is  still  living,  her  home  being  with 
her  son,  tiie  Hon.  Henry  R.  lunmerson,  in 
Dorchester.  Of  their  hap|iy  union  three  chil- 
dren were  born,  as  follows:  Henry  R.  ;  I".  VV.  ; 
and  lunma,  wife  of  Harvey  Atkinson,  O.C,  of 
Moncton,  N.  B. 

Henr)R.  iMnmerson,  O.C,  pursued  hisearly 
studies  in  various  eilucational  institutions  of 
note,  including  .St.  Joseph's  College,  Memrani- 
cook,  N.  B.  ;  Amherst  Academy,  Amherst, 
N.  S.  ;  Mount  Allison  Academy,  Sackville, 
N.B.  ;  the  English  High  School,  Boston, 
Mass.;  the  Horton  Collegiate  Academy;  and 
Acadia  College,  in  Wolfville,  N. S.  Having 
decided  upon  a  professional  career,  he  then 
began  the  stud)'  of  law,  and  in  NS77  graduated 
from  the  Boston  University  Law  School  with 
the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws.  Immediately 
locating  in  Dorchester,  N.B. ,  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  during  the  same  year,  and  at  once 
began  the  practice  of  his  profession.  He  is 
now  a  Oueen's  Counsel  for  the  Province. 
.Since  taking  up  his  residence  in  Westmorland 
County,  Mr.  lunnier.son  has  exerted  a  great 
influence  in  jiolitical  circles,  and  has  serveil 
with  ability  and  fidelity  in  many  offices  of 
trust  and  responsibility,  although  at  one  or 
two  elections  of  the  gen'.ral  Dominion  he 
proved  an  unsuccessful  cuididate  for  politi- 
cal h.)nors.  For  .several  years  he  was  a  School 
Trustee  and  the  secretary  of  the  Board.  In 
i.SiSS  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  I'rovin 


tliu  time  of 
ho  was  l)iit 
cd  Augusta, 
ludio,  N.  S.  ; 
:  being  with 
nnicrson,  in 
II  three  chil- 
R.  ;  F.  VV.  ; 
ion,  O.  C. ,  of 

ued  his  early 
stitutions  of 
>e,  Mem  ram - 
,',  Amherst, 
,  Sackville, 
3ol,  lioston, 
:ademy ;  and 
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cial  Farliament,  representing;-  AIIati   County. 

In  1891  lie   l)ecanie  a   member   of  the   Ivvecii- 

tivc  Couneil.      On  the  loth  of  October,   1.S92, 

lu'  was  sworn    in    as    Chief   Commissioner  of 

I'lililic   Worixs;  and  in   October,   1897,    lie  as- 

simied  the  duties  coinieetcd  with  the  I'reniier- 

ship  of   this  jiroviiice.      He  was  at   one    time 

a  member  of   the   Legislative   Council   of  the 

I'nnince,  in  which   he  voted   for  its  abolition  ; 

and  this  came  about  in  1892.      This  honorable 

reinrd   of  service   in   hij,di  official   positions  is 

spc.iking  evidence  of    the  i,-reat   estimation  in 

which   Mr.  ICmmerson    is  held  tlirou.nbout   bis 

native  province,  and   is  a   consi)icuous   tribute 

to  his  talents  and   inte^nity. 

-Mr.  I'Jnmerson  and  Juiiily,  daughter  of  the 
late  C.  11  Record,  of  Moneton,  N.J{.,  were 
maiiied  on  June  12,  1878,  and  they  have  five 
children,  namely:  Kthel  R.  ;  Henry  R.,  Jr.; 
luiiily  K.  ;  IJernice  .S.  ;  and  Marion  Ji.  Hoih 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  iMnmerson  aie  members  of  the 
Jiaptist  ciiurch.  Mr.  I'Jnmersoii  is  president 
i>t  the  Baptist  Convention  for  the  Maritime 
Provinces;  also  a  member  of  the  J?oard  of 
Governors  of  Acadia  University. 


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I'ORGI'  ROIH'RT  SANGSTHR,  a 
V^  prominent  and  prosperous  citizen  of 
Moneton,  N.H.,  is  living  somewhat  retired 
from  active  jmrsuits,  enjoying  the  fruit  of  his 
earlier  years  of  indu.stry.  He  was  born  No- 
vember 28,  1834,  in  Falmouth,  N.S.,  the 
town  in  which  his  father,  the  late  John 
Sangster,  Jr.,  first  opened  his  eyes  to  the 
lislit  of  this   beautiful   world.      He  comes  of 


Scotch  ancestry  on  his  father's  side,  his  pa- 
ternal grandfather.  John  .Sangster,  Sr.,  having 
been  born  and  brought  up  in  Aberdeen,  Scot- 
land. 

When  a  young  man  John  Sangster,  .Sr., 
emigrated  with  two  of  his  brothers  to  Amer- 
ica. One  brother  settled  in  Toronto,  Canada, 
:""1  one  at  Cape  Breton,  while  John  himself 
bought  land  in  Falmouth,  N.S.,  where  he  car- 
ried on  general  farming  with  excellent  result.s, 
and  also  kept  a  hou.se  of  public  entertainment, 
the  Sangster  Inn,  which  was  well  patronized 
tor  many  years.  He  was  twice  married;  and 
his  finst  wife,  whose  family  name  was  Cleve- 
land, was  the  paternal  grandmother  of  George 
R.  Sangster. 

John  .Sangster,  Jr.,  was  born  at  the  old 
homestead  in  Falmouth,  N.S..  and  there  .spent 
the  greater  jKirtion  of  his  si.\ty-five  years  of 
life,  but  died  in  Cornwallis,  N.S.  Follow- 
ing the  occupation  in  which  he  was  reared,  he 
became  one  of  the  leading  agriculturists  of 
that  part  of  the  country,  and  was  highly  re- 
specteil  for  his  manliness  of  character  and 
honest  dealings.  He  married  Mr.s.  Ann 
Xorthrup  Church,  who  lived  to  the  age  of 
seventy-si.v  years.  Both  were  attendants  of 
the  Methodist  church.  They  had  si.x  chil- 
dren, of  whom  George  R.  is  the  only  one  now 
living. 

George  R.  .Sangster  pursueil  his  elementary 
studies  in  the  .schools  of  Canning,  N.S.,  later 
completing  bis  educaton  at  the  academy  in 
Lower  Horton,  a  neighboring  town.  Then, 
little  inclined  to  spend  his  life  in  tilling  the 
soil,  he  went  to  J^oston,  Ma.ss.,  where  for  sev- 


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cral  years  he  was  employed  as  llie  driver  of  a 
horse-car.  Anibitious  and  venturesome,  how- 
ever, he  determined  to  find  some  other  mode 
of  making  a  living,  and  soon  joined  a  |)arty 
going  by  mule  train  to  the  Rocky  Mountains 
in  search  of  gold.  After  being  there  success- 
fully engaged  in  mining  for  some  time,  he  re- 
turned to  Nova  Scotia,  and  for  five  years  was 
engaged  as  caterer  in  the  Kentville  Station 
Dining-rooms.  In  1876  he  came  to  Moncton, 
and  for  ten  years  was  caterer  of  the  dining- 
room  at  the  Moncton  depot.  Retiring  from 
business  in  1886,  Mr.  Sangster  continued  his 
residence  in  Moncton,  and  lias  since  been 
busily  employed  in  looking  after  his  private 
interests,  which  are  numerous  and  important. 
He  is  a  shareholder  in  phosphate  lands  in 
Florida,  and  also  in  the  Acadian  Coal  and 
Coke  Company,  of  which  he  is  one  of  the  di- 
rectors. 

A  Liberal  in  his  jiolitical  views,  he  is  ac- 
tive in  local  affairs,  and  for  two  years  served 
as  Town  Councillor  fmni  Ward  Three.  In 
1854  he  was  made  a  Mason  in  Mount  Tabor 
Lodge  of  l''ast  Hoston,  Mass.  He  was  de- 
mitted,  and  is  now  an  honorary  member  of 
Keith  Lodge,  I'\  &  A.  M.,  of  Moncton,  and 
is  I'ast  Master  of  Kentville  Lodge.  He  was 
made  a  Royal  Arch  Mason  in  St.  Joim  Royal 
Arch  Chapter,  Hast  Boston.  He  iielongs  to 
Ivanhoe  I'rcceptory  of  Moncton,  N.  H.  ;  also  to 
Prince  Albert  Lodge,  I.  ().  O.  P.,  of  Monc- 
ton. Having  never  swerved  from  tlie  relig- 
ious faith  in  which  he  was  reared,  Mr.  Sang- 
ster is  an  influential  member  of  the  Methodist 
church,  to  wliich   his  family  also  belong,  and 


he  is  very  liberal  in  his  gifts  to  that  denomi- 
nation. He  erected  the  Wesley  Memorial 
Church  of  Moncton,  and  on  its  completion  in 
1890  presented  it  to  the  Methodist  Society. 

Mr.  .Sangster  and  Rebecca  L. ,  daughter  of 
I'^lisha  Loonier,  of  Canning,  N.S.,  were  mar- 
ried on  Sejiteniber  9,  1857.  They  have  three 
chil(h-en  living,  namely:  John  H. ,  born  March 
17,  1859,  who  married  on  May  13,  1885, 
Alma  K.  McKarland,  and  has  two  children  — 
John  C,  born  July  2,  1886,  and  Lmnia  R., 
born  November  11,  1893;  Liz/ie  -S. ,  wiio 
was  born  March  24,  1861,  and  is  now  the  wife 
of  Harry  1.  Hrown,  of  Moncton,  and  has  one 
child,  Jean  S. ,  born  I'ebruary  5,  1893; 
and  George  L. ,  born  November  24,    i8r)3. 


CALUS    LOCKWOOD    I'ALMKR, 

late  ICcpiity  Judge  of  the.  Supreme 
Court  of  New  Hrunswick,  a  jurist 
of  more  than  I'rovincial  reputation,  was  at  the 
time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  Augu.st  10, 
1899,  one  of  the  oldest  members  of  the  New 
Brunswick  bar.  He  was  born  at  Sackville, 
N.  H.,  in  1820,  son  of  Philip  I'almer.  His 
grandfather,  Gideon  I'almer,  who  was  the  fir.st 
of  the  family  in  this  Province,  was  living  in 
Westchester,  N.  V.,  whcTi  the  American  Rev- 
olution broke  out;  but,  remaining  loyal  to  the 
luiglish  crown,  he  forfeited  his  estate  and 
came  with  others  to  New  Hrunswick.  Here 
he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Carleton  Coro- 
ner for  the  county  of  Westmorland.  His  son 
Philip  represented  that  county  for  many  years 
in  the  Legislature  of  New  IJrunswick. 


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Acalus  Lockworfd  Palmer  received  his  early 
education  at  .Sackville.  He  began  the  study 
of  law  in  the  office  of  the  Hon.  K.  H.  Chand- 
ler in  PY-bruary,  1842,  one  of  his  fellow- 
students  being  the  late  Albert  J.  .Smith.  In 
1846  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Nova 
Scotia  and  to  that  of  New  Hrunswick.  He 
soon  rose  to  prominence  in  his  profession, 
winning  laurels  joth  in  the  Provincial  and 
in  the  higher  courts,  where  his  contentions 
were  almost  invariably  sustained.  In  1867  he 
was  created  a  Queen's  Counsel.  He  was  a 
leading  figure  in  tiie  Province,  and  acted  as 
counsel  in  many  important  criminal  cases,  in 
which,  as  well  as  in  dealing  with  questions  of 
commercial  law,  he  proved  a  formidable  antag- 
onist at  the  bar.  For  several  years  he  was 
president  of  the  l?arristers'  .Society  of  New 
Hrunswick.  From  the  year  1850  to  the  time 
he  took  his  seat  on  the  bench,  a  period  of 
nearly  thirtv  years,  he  was  probably  the  fore- 
most lawyer  in  the  Province,  and  was  em- 
ployed in  nearly  all  cases  of  importance  that 
came  before  the  courts.  A  glance  at  the 
records  of  the  Supreme  Court  for  that  time 
discloses  the  enormous  amount  of  legal  work 
he  handled.  His  biography  would  cover  the 
legal  history  of  the  Province  during  his  time. 
He  was  not  only  engaged  in  nio&t  of  the  cases 
of  importance  during  thirty  years,  but  was  a 
most  prominent  figure  in  the  contests;  for, 
wiiile  he  was  never  considered  a  great  orator, 
his  knowledge  of  law  and  business  lent  power- 
ful influence  to  his  arguments  with  both  court 
and  jury,  and  his  success  was  marvellous. 

He  also  engaged  actively  for  many  years  in 


the  political  contests  of  the  time.  He  was  a 
strong  advocate  of  confederati(Ui,  and  was 
twice  a  candidate  in  Westmorland  County  in 
the  confederate  interests.  Although  unsuc- 
cessful then  and  again  in  1870,  when  he  ran 
in  St.  John  as  candidate  for  the  Legislature, 
he  was  elected  in  1872  as  Rei)resentative  of 
St.  John  in  the  Parliament  of  Canada,  and 
successively  held  the  seat  until  1878.  When 
first  elected  he  had  been  a  resident  of  St.  John 
for  only  five  years.  He  was  a  warm  suji- 
porter  of  .Sir  John  McDonald's  government, 
and  always  took  a  prominent  part  in  debate. 

On  the  creation,  in  1879,  of  an  additional 
judgeship  for  the  Supreme  Court  of  New 
Hrunswick,  Mr.  Palmer  was  appointed  to  fill 
it,  his  standing  at  the  bar  attesting  his  emi- 
nent fitness  for  the  ])lace.  His  acceptance  of 
this  appointment  was  a  great  pjcuniary  loss 
to  him,  his  income  as  a  barrister  having  been 
far  in  excess  of  the  salary  paid  a  judge. 
\'  'len  he  assumed  the  office  of  Judge,  he  dis- 
played a  breadth  of  legal  knowledge  and  an 
ability  to  deal  with  the  most  intricate  points 
of  law  that  won  for  him  a  place  among  the 
ablest  of  Canadian  jurists.  Such  was  his  suc- 
cess as  a  judge  that  it  may  be  truly  .said  that 
out  of  the  old,  cumbersome,  and  dilatory  <  ourt 
of  Chancery  be  has  made  a  most  useful,  expe- 
ditious, and  popular  court  in  the  Province, 
and  one  which  has  absorbed  the  greatest  part 
of  the  legal  business  of  the  county. 

He  was  well  known  and  higlily  respected  by 
many  of  the  leading  jurists  of  the  neighboring 
republic,  and  doubtless  not  less  so  because  of 
the  fearless  manner  in  which,  on  various  occa- 


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sions  in  that  country,  lie  upheld  the  honor  of 
Canada  and  the  Kmpire  and  the  memory  of  the 
Loyalist  founders  of  his  native  Province,  from 
whom  he  himself  was  descended.  Judge 
I'almcr  took  a  deep  interest  in  medical  juris- 
prudence, and  was  a  (jroniinent  inemher  of  the 
Medico-Legal  Society  of  New  York,  of  which 
he  was  for  some  years  the  vice-president  for 
New  Brunswick.  lie  frequently  attended  the 
sessions  of  that  body  in  New  York,  where  he 
on  several  occasions  presided  and  wiiere  lie 
had  many  friends.  Shortly  l)efore  his  death, 
despite  his  advanced  age,  Judge  I'almer  was 
in  full  possession  of  bodily  vigor  and  the  keen 
faculties  of  mind  that  maile  him  so  long  a 
man  of  mark  among  his  fellows.  Palmer's 
Chambers  in  Princess  Street,  containing  law 
offices,  was  erected  by  him  in  1878. 

In  1850  he  was  married  to  Martha  Ann, 
daughter  of  Andrew  Weldon,  Esq.  Hy  her  he 
had  three  children,  one  son  who  died  in  in- 
fancy; a  daughter,  l'"annie  I"..  ;  and  Charles 
Arthur  Palmer,  of  whom  mention  is  made 
elsewhere  in  the  Ri:\ii:\v.  Mrs.  Martha 
Palmer  died  in  November,  1882;  and  on  De- 
cember 14,  1886,  Judge  I'almer  married 
Amelia  I'iay,  youngest  daughter  of  Gilbert 
Ik'ut,  I'^sq.,  of  St.  John. 


7[7*iHARLES  ARTHUR  ,1'ALMKR, 
(  J[       LL.R,  O.C,  late  of  St.  John,  N.H., 

^ '  who  died  on  January  7,    1899,  was 

born  June  6,  1855,  at  Dorchester,  Westmor- 
land County,  N.li.  He  was  a  son  of  Acalus 
Lockwood    Palmer    by    his    first    wife,    whose 


maiden  name  was  Martha  Ann  Weldon.  His 
father  was  a  Judge  of  tiie  Supreme  Court  of 
New  Brunswick. 

Mr.  Palmer  received  his  education  at  .Mount 
Allison  College,  Sackville,  N.  H.,  and  the  law 
school  at  Harvard  Uiii\ersity.  Admitted 
barrister,  he  subsequently  practised  his  pro- 
fession until  his  death,  gaining  for  himself  a 
wide  reputation  and  a  large  and  important 
clientage.  In  politics  lie  was  a  Conservative, 
and  took  an  interest  in  tlie  affairs  of  his  party, 
but  never  aspired  to  Parliamentary  honors, 
being  too  much  engrosseil  with  his  profes- 
sional duties.  Mr.  Palmer's  success  was  the 
result  of  his  real  worth  of  character  and  dili- 
gent ajiplication.  He  gained  a  leading  place 
in  his  profession  early  in  life.  In  religion  he 
was  a  Methodist. 

He  was  married  October  20,  1881,  to  Ada 
Louisa  Sancton,  daughter  of  (icorge  P.-  Sanc- 
ton, I'.sq.      He  had  two  sons  —  Arthur  L.  and 

(icorge  S. 

, «^«*^ ' 

/3?)siD\EY  SMITH,  born  at  .St.  John, 
\pj.  N.H.,  May  4,  1834,  is  the  eldest  sou 
of  Henry  IJowyer  and  Charlotte  L.  .Smith. 
Henry  Hovvyer  .Smith  in  1824,  at  the  early  age 
of  twenty-four  years,  was  ajipointed  by  the  Im- 
perial government  Comptroller  of  the  port  of 
St.  John,  and  siiortly  afterward  succeeded  to 
the  coUectorship,  which  position  lie  continued 
to  hold  until  the  Imperial  government  was 
transferred  to  the  colonial  authorities  in 
1848,  when  he  was  retired  with  a  pension. 
He  continued  to  reside  in  St.  John  u[)  to  the 
time  of   his  death    in    1868.      His   father  was 


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Hon.  WILLIAM    H.  TUCK. 


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«3 


Charles  Douglass  Smith,  an  officer  of  dragoons 
in  the  British  army,  a  l)r()thcr  of  Admiral  Sir 
Sidney  Smith,  who  fouj^'ht  aiul  iadd  in  chock 
NapolLOM  Monaparte  at  Acre. 

Ci.  Sidiuv  Smith  was  named  alter  his 
father's  elder  hmther,  Captain  (Jeorye  Sidney 
Smith,  of  the  Royal  Navy,  who  as  a  midship- 
man at  the  at;e  of  eleven  years  was  captured 
l)y  a  l'"reiich  man-of-war  in  (juiberon  Hay,  and 
spent  the  succeeding  seven  years  of  his  life  as 
a  prisoner  of  war  in  a  i'rcuch  prison,  return- 
ing after  marvellous  hairbreadth  escapes  to 
his  father's  liouse  at  Hath  at  the  age  of  eigh- 
teen years.  Hy  a  strange  coincidence  some 
time  afterward,  as  a  Lieutenant  in  the  navy, 
he  was  in  command  of  the  i)oat  which  conveyed 
Napoleon  from  the  heacli  to  H.  M.  S.  "Un- 
daunted" on  the  occasion  of  his  exile  to  IClba, 
and  he  assisted  the  ex-emperor  along  the  gang- 
plank into  the  boat. 

After  a  course  of  private  tuition  G.  Sidney 
Smith  entered  the  St.  John  Granuuar  School, 
under  the  late  Dr.  I'atcrson,  and  remained 
there  some  years.  He  then  went  to  the  Col- 
legiate Scho(d  at  h'redericton,  where  he  ob- 
tained tile  Douglas  ilver  medal  as  "Dux"  of 
the  school,  lie  then  entered  King's  College, 
Fredericton  (now  the  University  of  New 
Hrunswick),  where  he  remained  for  the  full 
course,  winning  a  foundation  scholarship  after 
a  keen  competition,  taking  his  degree  of 
Hatl-.elor  of  Arts  with  honors,  and  winning 
the  Douglas  gold  medal  for  an  essay. 

He  entered  on  the  study  of  the  law  in  the 
office  of  William  Jack,  (J.C,  Advocate  Gen- 
eral  in   St.    John,   was  admitted  attorney   in 


October,  185.S.  and  w.xs  called  to  the  bar  in 
October,  i.*<S9.  Me  has  since  practised  law 
in  the  city  of  St.  John,  devoting  himself 
largely  to  the  management  of  trust  estates  and 
real  estate  generally,  in  which  he  has  had  a 
wide  experience.  Jn  1S73  he  was  appointed 
solicitor  and  notary  to  the  Hank  of  New  Hruns- 
wick,  and  this  office  he  still  hcdds. 

(i.  Sidney  Smith  married  in  1861  IClizabeth 
.Sands  i'horne,  only  child  of  .Stephen  R. 
'riiorne,  a  barrister-at-law  of  Loyalist  descent. 
He  has  one  son,  Howyer  .Sidney  .Smith, 
harrister-at-law,  residing  in  .St.  John,  and 
four  daughters. 


^y(h\.  WILLIAM  HLNRV  TUCK, 
Chief  Justice  of  New  lirunswick,  a 
resident  of  .St.  John,  is  a  s(.n  of  the 
late  Moses  'I'uck,  and  was  born  in  Portland, 
N.  H.,  February  27,  1K51.  The  maiden  n;  me 
of  his  niotlier  was  Llizabeth  Tra\is.  His  tirst 
paternal  ancestor  in  America  was  Robert  Tuck, 
who  came  over  in  16^6  from  dorlcston,  a  sea- 
board town  in  the  north-easterly  part  of  Suffolk 
County,  L^ngland.  He  lived  for  a  time  in 
Watertown,  Mass.,  but  two  years  later  was  a 
peticioiier  t"  the  (ieneral  Court  at  Hoston  for 
leave  to  settle  at  Hampton,  Rockingham 
County,  N.  II.,  and  removing  to  that  place 
there  made  his  home  till  his  death,  in  {664. 
Robert  Tuck's  son  luhvard,  who  was  born  in 
I'jigland  before  the  family  came  across  the 
ocean,  married  Mary  I'hilbrick,  and  settled  on 
a  part  of  his  father's  estate,  where  he  died  on 
April  6,   165J. 


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Jiilui  Tuck,  son  of  lulwaid,  was  born  in 
1652.  He  married  on  N()\cmbL'r  9,  '1677, 
Ikthia,  daughter  of  Morris  and  Sarah  (l-^astow) 
Ilobbs.  Slie  was  born  in  Ilamjitonon  Decem- 
ber 2>S,  1658,  and  (lied  on  May  29,  1738. 
John  Tuck  died  on  Jainiary  4,  1742,  at  ninety 
years  of  ai^e.  Tlic  next  in  line,  Ivdward  Tuck, 
son  of  John,  was  born  on  I'ebruary  7,  1694  or 
1695,  and  '^'cd  on  June  7,  1772.  He  was  a 
carpcntc  Uy  trade,  and  settled  in  Kensington, 
N.  H,  I  lis  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Sarah  Dearborn,  was  the  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Mercy  (I^atchelder)  Dearborn,  of  Hamp- 
ton. She  was  born  on  June  17,  1699,  and 
died  on  January  15,  1756.  Their  son  Samuel, 
great-grandfather  of  the  Hon.  William  Henry 
Tuck,  was  bnrn  in  Kensington  on  September 
'3.  ^7i^-  He  was  married  en  September  30, 
17C2,  to  Anna,  di.  •'  .or  of  John  and  Mary 
(Marston)  Moulton,  of  Hr.iiipton,  who  was 
born  Ju;ie  24,  1744.  After  living  for  some 
time  in  Kensington,  .Samuel  removed  to  Drenl- 
wood,  N.  II.  Later  he  was  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolutionary  War,  and  on  November  12, 
1777,  he  died  in  the  army.  His  widow,  who 
survived  him  more  than  fifty-eight  years,  died 
on  August  8,  1836,  over  ninety-two  years  of 
age. 

Judge  Tuck's  grandfather,  .Sanuiel  Tuik, 
son  of  the  above-named  .Samuel,  was  iinrn  in 
J?rentwood  on  y\pril  6,  1765,  and  was  married 
on  July  19,  1795,  to  Sally  Watson,  who  was 
boin  on  New  Year's  Day,  1773.  He  settled 
in  l-'ayette,  Kennebec  ("ounty,  .Me.,  where  he 
became  Captain  m  the  militia  and  Justice  of 
the  Peace.      He  was  a  nieuiber  in    1821   of  the 


first  legislature  of  the  .State  of  Maine.  His 
death  occurred  on  July  8,  1.S40,  and  that  of 
his  wife  on  Jan.iary  2,  1 868,  at  the  age  of 
ninc'y-five  years. 

Moses  Tuck,  father  of  the  Judge,  was  born  in 
Fayette,  Me.,  on  March  25,  1799,  and  was 
married  to  I'Mizabeth  Travis  on  November  15, 
1828.  He  was  a  resident  in  St.  John  for  about 
half  a  century,  and  died  there  on  April  28, 
1868. 

Judge  Tuck  was  educated  in  the  local  schools 
and  at  Mount  Allison  University,  .Sackville, 
N. H.  In  1855  he  was  called  to  the  bar,  and 
subsequently  for  many  years  he  practised  the 
profession  of  law  in  .St.  John  with  niarkeil 
success.  He  became  Clerk  of  the  Crown  and 
Quci-n's  Counsel  in  June,  1867,  and  succeeded 
the  late  Hon.  R.  L.  Hazen,  (J.  C,  and  Re- 
corder .)f  St.  John  in  1874.  In  the  latter  year 
also  he  w.s  jiresident  of  the  Harristeis'  .Society, 
.and  received  'lie  honorar)'  degree  ol  Doctor  of 
Civil  Law  from  Mount  Allison  L'niversity. 
L'or  many  years  he  was  an  active  politician  on 
the  Conservative  side,  and  laboicd  earnestly  in 
behalf  of  a  '^ritis'i-Amcrican  union.  In  1S82 
be  unsuccessfully  contested  the  city  and  county 
of  St.  John  for  the  Canailian  House  of  Commons. 
His  ajjpointment  as  Judge  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  New  liiunswick  bears  the  dale  March 
17,  1885,  and  his  appointment  as  a  local  ji.dge 
in  admiralty  cases,  October  13,  1891.  In 
1892  he  was  appointed  lecturer  in  the  .St.  Jcihn 
Law  School,  in  1895  professor  of  statutory  law 
ill  King's  College,  Windsor,  and  on  May  13, 
1896,  was  promotcil  to  be  Chief  Justice  of 
New     Hrunswick.      The    St.     John     7'</ii;r/i)/t 


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spenks  of  Chief  Justice  Tuck  as  "a  hard 
worker  ami  pronipt  in  the  transaction  of  busi- 
ness," an  ennmiiuni  which,  thou^'li  wholly 
true,  is  conspicuously  inadequate,  especially  in 
the  omission  to  give  the  learned  Judj;e  .'ue 
credit  for  his  (|uickness  of  aopa-hension  and 
clearness  <if  exinession  and  lor  his  shrewd 
common-sense,  combined  with  knowledge  of 
law.  He  married  in  December,  1857,  Sarah 
Plummer,  daughter  of  Colonel  II.  S.  Favor,  of 
I'lastiJort,  Me. 

/©jToRGE  F.DWARn  FENPyfY,  who 
y^J.  died  in  l'"reilericton,  September  30, 
1S99,  was  a  former  Mayor  of  the  city.  He 
was  well  known  in  literary  and  political 
circles,  and  was  for  many  years  Ouecn's 
Printer  for  the  Province  of  New  lirunswick. 
He  was  born  in  Halifax,  N.S.,  the  fourth 
son  of  William  l-'enety,  an  architect  and 
draughtsman,  who.  previous  to  his  death,  in 
1826,  was  engaged  on  the  King's  Works. 
William  I'enety  married  Mary  Hall,  daughter 
of  Richard  Hall,  a  sturdy  Loyalist,  who  went 
to  Nova  Scotia  in  178.^,  and  settled  in  Shcl- 
luune,  a  town  built  u|)  largely  by  Loyalists 
from  New  York,  New  Jersey,  and  Massachu- 
setts. 

Cieorge  V,.  P'enety  began  his  active  career 
wlien  a  youth  of  seventeen  by  entering  the 
ollicc  of  iIk'  .\('r'(;  Sit>/iti//,  a  Liberal  paper, 
owncil  by  the  late  Hon.  Joseph  Howe,  who  at 
the  time  of  his  death,  in  1875,  was  Lieutenant 
(iovernor  of  Nova  Scotia.  While  he  was  con- 
nected  with   that   [lajier,  Mr.  I'enety  travelled 


extensively  throughout  the  Provinces  collect- 
ing accounts.  In  1835  he  went  to  New  York, 
and  the  following  year  became  connected  with 
a  Southern  paper,  the  P/nntii's  Advocate, 
which  was  published  at  Donaldsonville,  a 
small  town  on  the  Mississippi  River,  and  of 
which  he  was  afterward  half-proprietor.  In 
1839  yellow  fever,  the  annual  scourge  of  that 
climate,  proved  fatal  in  so  many  cases  that  he 
disposed  of  his  interests  in  the  ])aper  and 
returned  home.  Settling  in  .St.  John,  Mr. 
Fenety  continued  his  journalistic  work  by 
starting  the  first  penny  paper  issued  in  the 
Provinces,  calling  it  the  Moniiii^if  Xitos.  The 
weeklies  in  this  section  of  the  country  then 
sold  at  ten  cents  each,  and  in  the  United 
.States  there  were  but  four  that  sold  so 
cheaply,  the  New  York  Ilcmld,  the  New 
Orleans  J'icdyiitu;  the  Philadel|)hia  /.(v/j,'(V, 
and  the  I?oston  Ilcralii.  This  penny  pa|)er 
was  a  great  innovation;  and  greatly  dis- 
couraged by  other  jniblishers,  but  in  sjiite  of 
all  obstructions,  Mr.  Fenety,  before  he  retired 
from  its  editorship  in  1863.  succeedec'  in 
making  the  Wws  the  leading  political  paper 
of  St.  John.  The  name,  however,  was 
changed  from  the  Moniiii:^  .Wr.'.s-  io  the  Ihii/y 
.Wri'.f,  and,  though  now  out  of  existence,  it 
was  for  a  long  time  the  oldest  established 
paper  in  the  Province. 

Mr.  Fenety  was  for  many  years  a  trusted 
government  ofT.cial.  In  1856  he  was  made 
Justice  of  the  Peace  for  the  city  and  county  of 
St.  John,  and  the  next  year  was  ajipointed  as 
a  Commissioner  to  investigate  the  manage- 
ment of  the  A.sylum  for  Lunatics,  the  Provin- 


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cial  Penitentiary,  tlie  Marine  Hospital,  and 
the  ligiit-housrs  on  the  coast,  he  beinj;  one  of 
five  commissioners,  of  whom  the  Hon.  David 
VVarl<,  of  whom  a  i)rief  si<etch  may  be  found 
on  another  pa.nc  of  this  volume,  is  the  only 
other  survivor,  (ireat  ^ooil  resulted  from  the 
commissioners'  investigations,  which  Mr. 
l*"enety  as  a  journalist  was  credited  with  in- 
citing, the  current  expenses  for  running  the 
various  institutions  being  thereby  materially 
lessened.  In  KS47  lie  was  chosen  as  a  di- 
rector of  the  iMeclianies'  Institute,  and  in  1863 
was  ajijiointed  (jueen's  Printer,  a  position 
which  he  resigned  in  iJ^QS- 

The  literary  work  of  Mr,.  I'enety  is  volumi- 
nous and  of  much  interest  and  importance. 
In  1867  he  issued  "Political  Notes  and  Ob- 
servations," a  book  which  gives  a  complete 
account  of  the  legislative  struggles  in  New 
Brunswick  from  1840  to  1855;  and  he  subse- 
quently published  a  second  volume  of  the 
same  work,  which  covers  a  period  of  five 
years.  He  has  also  written  a  novel  describ- 
ing Halifax  life,  and  is  the  author  of  "Karl) 
Recollections  of  Halifax,"  "Imperial  I'ede- 
ration.  Its  Impracticability,"  and  various 
pamphlets.  In  1896  he  wrote  "The  Life  and 
Times  nf  the  Hon.  Jiise])h  llowe, "  and  almost 
to  the  close  of  his  -lays  he  kept  his  pen  in  use 
by  contributing  to  different  periodicals. 

In  1877  he  was  elected  Mayor  of  I'^ederic- 
tiin,  and  he  was  subsequently  re-elected  to  the 
same  office  four  times.  It  is  notable  that  of 
the  five  occasions  when  he  was  candidate  for 
the  position  he  ran  three  times  without  oppo- 
sition.     In   I  887  he  reti'ed  from  politics.      ( )n 


leaving  the  Mayor's  chair,  he  was  presented 
by  the  citizens  with  a  beautiful  epergne,  val- 
ued at  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  and  a 
testimonial  signed  by  three  hundred  leading 
citizens.  While  at  the  head  of  the  city 
government,  he  not  only  ga\e  freely  from  his 
own  private  purse  towaril  imi)roving  the  city, 
but  he  generously  gave  his  salary  of  two  hun- 
dred dollars  a  year  toward  paying  for  the  clock 
placed  in  the  tower  of  the  City  Hall.  Mr. 
b'enety  at  different  periods  was  a  director  of 
the  Joggins  Coal  Mines  Association  of  St. 
John;  president  and  secretary  of  the  Auxiliary 
Hible  Society;  trustee  of  the  local  .School 
Hoard:  director  of  the  local  F're  Insurance 
Company;  president  of  the  (ias  Company; 
president  of  the  I'orest  Mill  Cemetery  Com- 
pany; president  of  the  Historical  Society, 
which  has  now  passed  out  of  existence;  chair- 
man of  the  Hoard  of  Health;  vice-i)resident  of 
the  Church  of  I'jigland  Temperance  .Society; 
director  of  the  Leather  Company;  president 
of  the  Trotting  Park  Association  and  of  the 
.Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to 
Animals;  chairman  of  the  Hoard  of  Directors 
of  Wilmot  Park,  for  which  the  endowment 
fund  ol  twenty  thousand  dollars  was  placed  in 
his  hands  in  1894  by  Mr.  Wilmot:  delegate 
from  Christ's  Church  Cathedral  to  the 
Diocesan  .Synod  and  to  the  Church  .Society. 
He  was  also  a  delegate  from  l-'redericton  to 
Ottawa  to  confer  with  the  members  of  the 
Dominion  government  in  the  interests  of  the 
Canadian  iCastern  j'lailway  just  prior  to  its 
construction.  ( )f  these  positions,  more  of 
them  honorary  than  remunirati ve,  and   re<piir- 


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s  presented 

lergne,  val- 

lars,   and  a 

red   leading 

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if  two  hun- 

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in;;  mucli  time  to  properly  discharge  the 
duties  connected  therewith,  he  held  four  when 
summoned  from  earth.  Among  the  distin- 
"iiished  peisons  whom  he  introduced  to  Kred- 
t'riclon  audiences  while  he  was  Mayor  of  the 
city  were  the  Rev.  Josejjh  Cook,  the  Rev. 
Henry  Ward  lieecher,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Talmage, 
lustin  McCarthy,  Sir  John  A.  McDonald,  and 
the  M;>r(|uis  of  Lansdowne,  from  whom  he  re- 
ceived a  letter  written  in  recognition  of  his 
services  ai.  Mayor. 

In  .Septemher,  1847,  in  New  York,  Mr. 
I'"enety  marrii'd  i'.lixa  A.,  youngest  daughter 
of  Robert  .Arthur,  a  distant  relative  of  the 
il.ate  Chester  A.  Arthur,  {'resident  of  the 
I  United  .States.  Of  the  nine  children  horn  of 
[this  union  si.x  are  now  living.  One  son, 
;  Harris  I'enety,  is  editor  and  publisher  of  the 
\P(v7y  Ricord  ;it  St.  John,  N.H.  ;  and  one  of 
[his  (huiLjhters  is  the  wife  of  C'harles  G.  D. 
Roberts,  the  Canadian  poet. 


i\CA''/ 11. I.I.AM  MUN.SON  JARVIS,  bar- 
rister, a  representative  citizen  of 
|St.  Jnhii,  X.  1).,  is  a  native  of  the  city,  and 
kvas  burn  ou  Octnhcr  9,  1S3S,  his  parents 
beiii;^  William  and  Mary  (.'.-iroline  (Hoyd) 
larvis. 

The  name  Jarvis  or  Jervis,  or,  in  its  orig- 
inal Inrni,  Gervais  or  (iervaise,  is  of  I''rench 
|)ri,:;iii.  tliniiL;li,  like  many  other  n.imes  whieli 
^avi-  bail  their  source  abroad  and  have  l)een 
feoinmnn  in  I'ji-l.ind  since  the  Norman  Con- 
liiesi,  it  has  now  become  thoroughly  Angli- 
risi  il.     U  appears  in  its   French   form    in   the 


I'arliamentary  writs  nf  the  fourteenth  century. 
Gradually,  however,  this  form  passed  away 
and  the  luiglish  form  was  assumed,  Jervis  or 
Jarvis  in  the  mother  country,  and  Jarvis  al- 
most universally  in  Cianada  and  the  Unileil 
States. 

The  name  occurs  frecpiently  among  those  of 
the  earlier  settlers  in  New  l-Ingland.  The 
Canadian  members  of  the  family  in  most 
cases,  however,  trace  their  descent  from 
William  Jarvis,  who  resided  at  Huntington, 
L.I.,  at  the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century. 
One  of  his  sons,  Cajitain  .Samuel  Jarvis,  born 
in  1698,  removed  to  Norwalk  in  Connecticut. 
In  1738  his  name,  with  those  of  two  of  his 
sons,  appears  among  the  signatures  to  a  me- 
morial addressed  to  the  General  Assembly  by 
those  in  the  colony  who  then  professed  them- 
selves adherents  of  the  Church  of  ICngland. 
It  was  only  si.xteen  years  before  that  several 
members  of  Yale  College  had  resigned  their 
ofifices,  crossed  the  Atlantic  for  ordination, 
and  returned  as  missionaries  of  the  Church  of 
I'jigland  to  their  native  colony,  where  its 
ministrations  were  before  unknown.  A 
yoiniger  son.  Dr.  A.  raham  Jarvis,  subse- 
ipiCTitly  became  the  second  Hisbop  of  t'on- 
neclicut;  while  the  eldest,  Samuel  Jarvis,  who 
had  joined  his  father  in  signing  the  memorial, 
removed  to  Stamford  in  the  same  colony,  and 
was    Church    Warden    of    -St.    John's    Church 

1  there  lor  many  years. 

I  When  the  Jievolutionary  War  broke  out.  it 
found  the  Church  Warden  of  .Stamf(n-d  with  a 
family  of  five  sons  and  five  daughters.  He 
coulil    not   bring  himself    to    forego   his   allc- 


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giancc  to  the  crown,  and  finally  he  was  seized 
and  sent  in  an  open  boat  in  inclement  weatlier 
across  Long  Island  Sound  to  join  his  Loyalist 
friends,  the  exposure  resulting  in  his  death. 

Three  of  his  sons  and  two  sons-in-law  were 
prominent  among  the  Loyalists  of  the  time. 
William,  one  of  the  sons,  servfcd  as  an  officer 
in  the  (jueen's  Rangers,  the  most  distinguished 
of  the  Colonial  Corjjs,  uniler  Lieutenant  Colo- 
nel Simcoe;  and  suiisequently,  on  Colonel 
Sinicoc's  appointment  to  the  Lieutenant  Gov- 
ernorship of  I'pper  Canada,  Captain  Jarvis  ac- 
companied him  as  its  first  Provincial  Secretary 
to  York,  now  Toronto,  where  he  died  in  1817. 
Munson  and  John  Jarvis  settled  in  New 
Hrunswick,  where  the  former  died  in  1825, 
and  the  latter  twenty  years  later,  at  the  ripe 
age  of  ninety-three. 

Munson  Jarvis  was  a  warm  Loyalist  from 
the  first.  In  April,  1776,  ho  was  summoned 
before  a  committee  representing  the  Revolu- 
tionary clement,  which  had  now  possession  of 
Stamford,  and  called  on  to  pledge  himself  to 
the  Continental  Congress.  He  brought  him- 
self to  express  his  willingness  to  obey  the 
orders  of  Congress  "except  as  he  was  held 
back  by  a  religious  tie  of  conscience  ";  but, 
failing  to  explain  his  conscientious  scruples 
to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Committee,  he  was 
declared  an  enemy  of  the  country  and  driven 
from  his  home.  After  some  years'  residence 
in  New  York  he  removed  in  1783  with  other 
Loyalists  to  the  Harbor  of  St.  John.  Here 
he  at  once  interested  himself  in  securing  the 
ministrations  of  the  Church  of  l^ngland,  and 
became  one   of   the   first   Cinnch    Wardens   of 


Trinity  Church.  When  the  Province  of  New 
Brunswick  was  established  and  the  city  of  Si. 
John  became  incorporated,  he  served  in  the 
Provincial  Legislature  and  as  a  member  of  the 
Common  Council  of  St.  John. 

His  only  daughter  married  Major  Robert 
Hazen,  of  H.  M.  Sixtieth  Rifles,  a  son  of 
one  of  the  older  settlers  at  St.  John  Harbor. 
A  collateral  relative,  Leonard  Jarvis,  of  New- 
buryport,  ]\Iass. ,  had  l)een  associated  with 
Major  Hazen's  father  and  Messrs.  James 
.Simonds  and  James  White  in  the  earliest  part- 
nership formed  in  1764  for  colonizing  the 
Harbor  of  .St.  John. 

Munson  Jarvis  had  three  sons.  The  two 
elder,  Ralph  Munson  and  William,  became 
merchants  at  St.  John,  where  the  former  died 
in  1853,  and  the  latter  in  1856.  His  third 
son,  t])e  Hon.  h^dward  James  Jarvis,  became 
Chief  Justice  of  Prince  ICdward  Island,  and 
died  at  Charlottetown  in  1852.  Raljih  Mun- 
son Jarvis  n:arried  Caroline,  daughter  of  the 
Hon.  George  Leonard,  of  St.  John  and  Sussex 
Vale,  N.  H.  The  only  male  representative  of 
his  large  family  now  in  New  Hrunswick  is  his 
grandson,  Charles  lulward  Leonard  Jarvis,  of 
St.  John,  son  of  ICdward  Lutwyche  Jarvis, 
who  died  at  .St.  John's,  Newfoundland,  in 
1878. 

William  Jarvis,  son  of  Munson,  married  in 
1836  Mary  Caroline  Boyd,  daughter  of  Dr. 
John  Moyd  of  the  Royal  Medical  Staff;  and 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  their  only  son. 

William  Munson  Jarvis  is  a  barrister  of  the 
Supreme  Court  and  general  agent  for  the 
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Comi'any  fur  the  Maritime  I'rovinees  ol  Can- 
ada. In  l866  he  became  a  Lieutenant  Coln- 
iK'l  in  the  New  Hriinswiei<  militia.  In  1.S71, 
(in  the  incorporation  of  Portland,  now  forming 
a  part  of  St.  John,  he  became  a  member  of  the 
Town  Council.  He  ha.s  served  as  ])resi(lent 
(if  the  Stniday-seiiiiiii  Teachers'  Association  of 
tiie  Deanery  of  .St.  John,  vice-president  of  the 
Diocesan  Church  .Society  of  New  iVunswici<, 
and  president  of  the  New  Brunswick  Hoard  of 
I-'ire  Underwriters,  and  is  now  president  of 
tliL'  St.  Geori^e's  Society  of  St.  John,  presi- 
dent of  tlie  Board  of  Trade  of  ti)e  Maritime 
I'rovinees,  and  vice-president  of  the  .St.  John 
Board  of  Trade. 

He  married  in  1861  Jane  Hope,  daughter  of 
Captain  Beer,  R.N.  She  died  in  1866,  leav- 
ing; three  children.  He  married  second, 
in  1868,  Mary  Lucretia,  tlauj,diter  of  William 
Henry  Scovil,  merchant,  St.  John.  She  died 
in  1873,  leavinj;  two  daughters.  His  son, 
I'.dward  William,  born  in  1862,  is  now  in  the 
l)ank  of  Montreal,  Toronto.  One  of  his 
daughters  is  Mrs.  J.  W.  Digby,  of  Itrantford, 
and  another,  Mrs.  I'erey  Domville,  of  Hamil- 
ton, Out. 


^\C/V/ 11-1,1. \M  SHKIM'ARI)  SATN 
DMR.S,  ex-Mayor  of  the  town  of 
Woodstink,  N.H. ,  is  prominently  identified 
with  its  mercantile  interests  as  an  extensive 
and  successfid  dealer  in  dry  goods.  He  was 
horn  in  Woodstock,  July  29,  1854.  His 
father,  the  late  ICdw.ird  .Saunders,  of  Benton, 
N.B.,    was    born    in    I'"redericton,    where    his 


gramlfather  .Saimders,  whose  name  was  John, 
settled  on  arriving  in  New  Brunswick. 

John  Saunders  emigrated  from  .Scotland 
soon  after  attaining  his  majority.  He  had 
learned  the  blacksmith's  trade  in  ICdinburgh, 
and  for  a  short  tiiue  he  worked  at  it  in  l'"red- 
ericton.  Removing  thence  to  Woodstock,  he 
embarked  in  the  blacksmithing  business  on 
his  own  account,  and  continued  thus  engaged 
until  his  death. 

]Cdward  .Saunders  when  a  young  boy  came 
with  his  |)arents  to  Woodstock,  where  he  at- 
tended the  common  school,  and  afterward 
learned  the  trade  of  a  tanner  and  currier.  He 
worked  as  a  journeyman  for  a  while,  and  then 
started  in  business  for  himself  at  Florence- 
ville,  conducting  a  tannery  and  manufacturing 
boots  and  shoes.  A  few  years  later  he  sold 
out  his  establishment,  and  went  to  Vancebcuo, 
Me.,  to  enter  the  employ  of  K.  Shaw  & 
Brothers,  tanners  of  .sole  leather.  He  contin- 
ued as  foreman  in  one  of  their  immense  factories 
for  several  years,  but  lesigned  the  position  to 
become  a  member  of  the  firm  of  I-'arsons,  Gib- 
son &  .Saiuulers  at  Benton,  \.  B.,  where  he  re- 
mained until  his  demise.  The  firm  carried  on 
a  very  large  tanning  business,  and  its  leather 
accpiired  such  a  reputation  throughout  Canada 
for  superior  cpialities  that  just  prior  to  his 
death  Mr.  lulward  .Saunders  was  offered  a 
magnificent  salary  to  become  su|ierintendent 
of  one  of  the  largest  tanneries  in  the  Do- 
minion. He  was  made  a  Mason  at  .Sussex 
Lodge,  .St.  .Ste|)hen,  N.B.,  and  was  a  inember 
of  the  li.iptist  chuieh.  He  married  Jane, 
daughter  of   .Samuel    McKeen,    of  Woodstock. 


M 


X. 


3° 


niOGRAIMIICAI,    RF.VIFAV 


Sovi'ii   chiKlrcn  wore  born  ol    t 


lis   union    aiiil 


SIX  survive,  all  resiiliiiLr  in  Woodstoc 


\\( 


Tlu 


are:  William  Sheppanl,  wlmse  personal  history 
is    given    below;     Annie,    wile    ol     Wallaeo 


Mclli 


oy 


!•: 


will 


of 


McAdam ; 


George,  ol  the  firm  of  Saiiiulers  Urotliers:    lul- 
ward,    a    physieian;    and    (luy,     a    nun  hant 


taili 


William  Sheppartl  Saunders,  havingattended 


th 


:h(jol   of    !•' 


ill 


d   th 


e  superior  scIkjoI  ol  r  lorenceville  anil  tlie 
grammar  school  of  Woodstock,  took  a  com- 
mercial course  at  a  business  college  in  St. 
John.  11  is  first  position  was  that  of  book- 
keeper for  1"'.  .Shaw  &  Urothers,  with  whom  he 
remained  two  years.  'I'lieii.  after  acting  as 
clerk  in  a  Woodstock  dry-gooils  store  ,i  year, 
he  was  on  the  road  as  travelling  salesman  for 
the  Taylor  Manufacturing  Company  of  New 
Hritain,  Conn.,  for  a  year.  He  was  subse- 
c|uently  with  I'arsons,  Gibson  &  .Saunders 
until  1877,  when  he  opened  his  |)rcsent  dry- 
goods  establishment  in  Woodstock.  {"or  a 
few  years  Mr.  .Saunders  ciuiducted  the  busi- 
ness alone,  but  as  his  trade  increaseil  he 
needed  assistance  in  maintaining  it,  and  took 
into  partnership  his  brother,  George  H. 
.Saunders,  under  the  present  firm  name  of 
.Saunders  Urothcrs. 

I'olitically,  Mr.  .Saunders  was  formerlv 
identified  with  the  Liberal  jiarty,  but  he  is 
now  Independent.  His  record  of  |)ublie  ser- 
vice is  long  and  honorable,  i-'or  ,1  number  of 
years  he  was  .1  member  of  the  County  Coun- 
cil; in  1895  and  1S96  he  served  as  Mayiu'  of 
the  town:  and  in  1897  he  was  again  elected 
to  the  County  Council.     While  he  was  M.ayor, 


the  present  excellent  system  of  sewerage, 
which  has  jiroved  of  inestimable  benefit  and 
value  to  the  jilace,  was  first  introduced.      Kra- 


terna 


lly,    h 


e    w 


;is    made    a   Mason    in    .Sussc.\ 


Lodge,   K.   &    A.   M. 


d   demitted   to   Wi 


stock  Lodge,  of  which  he  is  1'.  M.     He  is  alsc 
a  member  of   Woodstock  Cha|)ter,    R.  A.  M.; 


and  of  Carleton  L 


:e,  I.  ().  O.  v.,  of  which 


r 


He  has  be 


en   a   member  o 


f  the 


Hoard    of    .School    Trustees    of    the    town    for 
years. 

Mr.  .Saunders  married  Janet  .Smith,  daugh- 
ter of  George  and  Margaret  Murray,  of 
lienton,  N.  li.,  and  they  have  eight  children, 
namely:  Kate  .Marion:  William  \i.,  of  the 
class  of  1900,  in  the  Mc(iill  Medical  College, 
Montreal,  Canada;  Murray  S.  ;  Harry  1'.  ; 
I""rederick  S.  ;  Annie  N.  ;  Jean  K.  ;  and  K.  J. 
Grant.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  .Saunders  are  both 
members  of  the  Baptist  church,  and  he  is 
superintendent  of  the  Sunday-school  con- 
nected with  it. 


7?)T*>^■•     joiix    j.\Mi;s    1'-r.\si;r, 

O.C.  I.L.l).,  fourth  Lieutenant 
Governoi  of  New  Urunswick,  was 
born  at  Heaubair's  Island,  Miramiibi,  North- 
umberland t,'ount\'.  X.  H. ,  August  I,  i8j(),  son 
of  Jiihn  I''iaser,  one  of  the  I'"arraliiie  I'"iasers 
of  Inverness,  .Scotlaml.  His  nn'ther,  Mar- 
garet l'"rascr,  was  a  daughter  of  Hugh  b'raser, 
son  of  "I'"aii-  .Anne,"  daughter  of  the  si.xth 
Lord  I.ovat.  Hon.  J.  J.  I'"iaser  received  his 
genenil  educaticn  at  the  Newcastle  (iramiiKir 
School,  and  in  1845  began  the  study  of  law  in 


■?5* 


4 


Ilu.v.  JolIX    JAMKS    FKASKK,  (J.C.   1.1..D. 


HIOGRAl'HICAL   REVIEW 


33 


ihc  office  of  Messrs.  Street  &  Davidson,  New- 
castle. He  was  admitted  as  attorney  in  1850, 
as  barrister  in  1852,  and  i)ccame  a  (Jiiccn's 
Counsel  in  1S73.  lie  came  to  I''redericlon  in 
1851,  when  tlic  lion.  Mr.  .Street  became  At- 
torney-Cicneral.  In  1.S65  he  was  elected  one 
(if  the  Representatives  of  York  in  the  Provin- 
cial Assemlily  im  the  Anti-confederation  plat- 
f(irni.  The  j;overnnient  resij^ned  the  next  year, 
and  in  the  ensuing  contest  Mr.  l'"raser  was  de- 
feated. In  June,  1S71,  he  was  appointed  a 
nienii)er  of  tiie  Legislative  Council  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Ivxecutive  Council ;  init  these  posi- 
tions he  resigned  in  1S72,  to  accept  tiie  office 
of  Provincial  Secretary  in  the  King  admin- 
istration, being  elected  by  bis  York  County 
constituents  by  acclamation.  When  the  lion. 
Mr.  King  retired  from  politics  in  1870,  Mr. 
I''niser  became  Attorney-General  and  Premier 
of  the  province,  and  continued  in  that  office 
until  May,  1882,  when  he  resigned  lo  become 
a  candidate  for  the  Dominion  House,  in  which 
contest,  however,  be  was  unsuccessful.  I:i 
December  of  the  same  year,  on  the  death  of 
.Mr.  Justice  Duff,  he  was  aiipointed  to  the 
bench  of  the  Su])renie  Court,  which  position 
he  iield  until  December,  1893,  wiien  he  was 
offered,  and  accepted,  the  Lieutenant-Govern- 
orship of  New  Mrunswick.  Mis  health  fail- 
ing, in  the  hojie  of  regaining  it  and  on  the 
advice  of  his  physicians,  he  left  home,  N'ovem- 
iier  2,  1896,  to  travel  through  the  south  of 
I'rance  and  Italy.  Hut  the  warning  was  but 
preliminary  to  the  final  summons;  and  be  died 
a  few  days  after  rcaciiing  Genoa,  November 
24,    1896.      (jovernor   I'raser's   death   was  felt 


not  only  as  a  great  personal  bereavement  by 
his  immediate  family  and  friends,  i)ut  as  a 
public  calamity  throughout  tiie  province,  and 
particularly  in  his  own  county  of  York,  where 
he  was  greatly  loved  anil  re>pected.  lie  was 
several  times  president  of  St.  Andrew's  .So- 
ciety. He  received  the  honorary  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Laws  from  the  University  of  New 
Mrunswick. 

Governor  I'^aser  was  first  married  in  Sep- 
tember, 1867,  to  Martha,  daughter  of  the  late 
Ale.vander  Cumining,  cif  l'"redericton.  In 
May,  188.J,  he  married  foi-  his  second  wife 
J.  M.  I'auletle,  ilaughter  of  the  late  lion. 
Charles  P'isher,  D.  C.  L. ,  of  I'redericton. 
Mrs.  P'raser  still  occupies  the  beautiful  family 
residence,  P'arialine  I'lace. 


j1;ti:r     rohp:rtson     ixcih-:.s, 

M.D.,  M.R.CS..  P;ngland,  a  lead- 
ing physician  of  .St.  John,  N'.l?., 
his  native  city,  was  born  on  the  nineteenth 
day  of  P'ebruary,  1835.  He  was  ehristeneil 
Patrick.  His  parents,  James  and  Janet 
(.Small)  Inches,  emigrated  in  1832  and  settled 
in  St.  John,  the  former  being  a  native  of 
Dunkeld,  and  the  latter  a  native  of  Dirnanean, 
.Strathardts,  Perthshire,  Scotland. 

Dr.  Inches  received  his  early  education  in 
the  grammar  school  of  St.  John,  and  sui)se- 
qucntly  studied  medicine  in  New  York  City 
at  the  University  Medical  College;  and  from 
this  institution  he  graduated  in  i8fi6.  Going 
then  to  (ireat  Britain,  he  further  prosecuted 
his  studies   at    the    L'niversity  of  P2dinlnirgh, 


'"^ 


34 


mor.R.\iMnr.\i,  revikw 


i  ( 


; ' 


Srotland,  and  at  King's  C()llf;;i',  London.  In 
riS68  he  was  clccteil  a  nieniljcr  ol  tlu'  Royal 
College  of  Surgeons  of  ICngland,  and  shortly 
after  returned  to  St.  John,  N.K.,  wlure  he 
comnieneed  tlie  practiee  ol  his  profession. 
Dr.  Inches  was  hrought  up  in  llie  faith  as 
taught  by  the  I'resiiyterian  church,  and  has 
continued  his  connection  with  that  body  ol 
Christians. 

In  1876  the  Doctor  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Mary  Dorothea,  daughter  of  Dr.  C.  K. 
I'"iske,  a  native  of  Massachusetts,  wlio  for 
many  years  practised  medicine  in  .St.  Jolin. 
Of  this  marriaj'e  seven  children  have  bien 
born,  si.\  of  whom  are  living. 


MASA  KMI'IRSON  KII.LAM.  of 
Moncton,  N.  15. ,  was  for  many  years  a 
member  of  the  Trovincial  Parlia- 
ment, and  in  that  capacity  was  notably  faith- 
ful to  the  interests  of  the  county  and  city 
which  he  re|iresente(l.  A  son  of  the  late 
Joseph  A.  Killam,  he  was  liorn  August  25, 
1834,  in  Dorchester,  X.U.  His  great-grand- 
father, Amasa  Killam,  was  an  officer  in  the 
ICnglish  army,  and  served  during  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution.  At  tiie  cIosl'  of  that  war  he 
was  stationed  at  Halifax,  N..S.,  where  he  died 
while  on  garrison  duty.  He  had  two  sons  — 
Cyprian  and  Comfort;  and  of  these  Cyprian, 
the  first-horn,  was  the  next  in  line  of  descent. 
Cyprian  Killam  was  born  in  Connecticut, 
one  of  the  New  England  .States,  hut  in  bis 
youthful  days  he  became  a  resident  of  Dor- 
chester,   Westmorland  County,    N.B.,    where 


he  was  busily  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits 
until  his  death,  at  the  age  of  seventy-one 
years.  Mis  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Mary  MlaeU,  attained  the  venerable  age  of 
eighty-seven  years.  Hoth  were  devoted  mem- 
bers of  the  Methodist  church.  Of  their 
eleven  children  but  one  survives,  John  A., 
who  married  a  cousin,  Comfort  Killam,  and 
has  eight  children  living. 

Joseph  .\.,  son  of  Cyprian  Killam,  was 
born  on  the  parental  homestead  in  Dorchester, 
N.  15.  In  his  youth  he  obtained  a  good  knowl- 
edge of  farm  work  and  also  learne<l  the  black- 
smith's trade.  A  few  years  after  his  mar- 
riage he  moved  with  his  family  to  Salisbury, 
X.H. ,  where  during  the  last  forty  years  of  his 
life  he  worked  at  his  trade  in  conjunction 
with  general  farming.  He  was  industrious, 
enterprising,  and  cpiite  successful  in  both 
branches  of  industry,  and  was  highly  respected 
in  the  community  in  which  he  spent  so  many 
years.  He  married  Margaret  Wheaton,  a  na- 
tive of  Salisbury,  and  they  became  the  parents 
of  ten  children.  Ol  these  six  are  living, 
namely:  Amasa  lunerson,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  Mary  J.,  wife  of  John  15rown,  of 
Salisbury;  Dorcas,  wife  of  D.ivid  Jonah; 
William  W'. ,  who  marrieil  Margaret  Kenney; 
Joseph  A.,  who  married  l-'rank  {'"erry;  and 
Addie,  wife  of  Oliver  Price.  The  father, 
who  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight  years,  was 
a  pillar  of  the  Methodist  church,  while  his 
wife  was  a  member  of  the  Haptist  church. 
.She  preceded  him  to  the  world  beyond,  |)ass- 
ing  away  when  sixty-five  years  old. 

Amasa  limerson  Killam  was  but   two  years 


') 


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1 

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1 

1^ 

1 

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WILLIAM     liANAKI),   Ml). 


niOGRAPFUCAI,    REVIEW 


37 


old  when  he  went  with  his  parents  to  Salis- 
liury,  wiierc  lie  acciuired  his  early  ediicaticin. 
There  he  siil)seqiiently  worked  as  a  farmer  and 
hriiltje  builder  lor  a  nuniher  ol  yiars.  htit  in 
187s  rrtiiined  to  Moneton,  which  he  has  made 
his  permanent  home.  While  livint;  in  Salis- 
Imry  he  was  I'ostmaster  of  W'heaton  Settle- 
ment from  iXf>3  until  1X74,  and  durin}^  that 
time  he  built  the  Ali)ert  Railway,  of  wliieh 
he  was  manager  a  number  of  years.  In  iSSi 
he  completed  the  construction  of  tlie  St. 
Martin's  iS:  I'pham  Uailway,  and  for  five  years 
thereafter  hatl  charge  of  that  road,  in  18X5 
and  I.S86  he  built  the  llaveloik  end  of  the 
I'etitcodiac  &  llavelock  Railroad,  which  he 
inanajjed  the  next  three  years.  In  1.S89  he  re- 
tired from  active  work  connected  with  either 
railway  or  brid^je  building,  although  he  is  at 
the  present  time  one  of  the  directors  of  the 
Albert  Southern  Uailway  Company. 

Politically,  Mr.  Killam  is  a  stron;;  sup- 
porter (if  the  principles  of  the  Liberal  iiarty, 
and  is  an  active  worker  in  its  ranks,  lie  was 
elected  to  the  Provincial  Pailianieiit  in  1.S7S, 
and  has  been  re-elected  several  times  since. 
In  that  body  he  served  with  ,i;ieat  lidelity 
durinj;  each  term  of  service,  ^ivini,'  ujeneral 
satisfaction;  and  he  would  stil  I  lu' oui'  of  its 
nuinbers  had  he  not  resii^ned  tm  May  1,  1897, 
two  years  before  the  expiration  of  his  term,  to 
accept  a  government  position  as  Bridge  In- 
spector of  Canada,  an  office  which  he  still 
holds. 

Mr.  Killam  married  on  July  25,  1857, 
Millicent  W'heaton,  by  whom  he  had  seven 
children,    five   of    whom   are    living,    namely: 


ICmily  A.,  born  April  1,},  \H6t;  Clarence  ]•'.., 
born  December  if),  18^)5;  Mdward  A.,  born 
May  f.(,  i8rj8;  i-'rauk  !..,  born  September  25, 
1870;  and  Jessie  J.,  Ikmii  (  Ictolnr  31,  1S72. 
A  daughter,  Carrie  }.,  who  was  horn  March 
13.  i85«j,  died  in  April,  189S.  Mrs.  Milli- 
cent \\.  Killam  died  at  the  age  of  fifty-five 
years.  She  was  a  most  estimable  woman  and 
a  member  ot  the  Baptist  church.  On  October 
J,  1889,  .Mr.  Kiliain  married  Mrs.  Mary 
Alice  Hallett,  born  McKay,  who  by  her  first 
marriage  has  one  child,  IClla  M.  Hallett,  born 
April  23,  1882.  Mrs.  Killam  and  Miss 
Hallett  are  members  ol  the  Presbyterian 
church 


II.I.I.XM  li.WAKl),  .M.l),,  a  highly 
(.•steemed  ph)siiiau  of  .St.  John, 
N.li. ,  is  one  of  the  cddest  members  of  the 
medical  fraternity  in  this  province,  and  is  well 
known  in  professional,  literary,  and  social 
circles.  He  was  burn  in  Kent\ille,  \..S. , 
August  Ji,  1S14,  a  sun  of  the  late  Dr.  Robert 
Hayard. 

Menticni  of  this  surname  at  once  brings  to 
mind  its  foremost  bearer  in  the  ranks  of  fame, 
the  Che\alier  de  lia\ard  {1475  iS--\'  styleil 
in  song  and  histov)  the  ki)ii;hl  "without  fear 
and  without  reproach,"  a  jihrase  which,  as  a 
nu)tlii,  is  used  to-day  on  the  Hayard  coat  of 
arms.  The  common  ancestor  of  Dr.  Hayard 
of  .St.  John  and  the  late  Hun.  Thomas  1". 
liayai'd,  fur  many  )ears  United  .States  .Senator 
from  Delaware,  four  years  .Secretary  of  State, 
and  afterward  first  Ambassador  of  the   United 


nv. 


38 


BIOGRAPHICAL   REVIEW 


States  at  the  Court  of  St.  James,  was  Samuel 
Bayard,  a  wealthy  merchant  of  Amsterdam, 
Holland,  who  married  Anne  Stiiyvesant, 
dauj^hter  of  the  Kev.  Balthazar  Stuyvesant 
and  sister  of  I'eter  Stuyvesant,  one  of  the 
early  Governors  of  New  Amsterdam.  Accord- 
ing to  the  family  tradition  .Samuel  Hayard, 
who  died  previous  to  1647,  and  his  sister 
Judith,  the  wife  of  Governor  .Stuyvesant,  were 
descendants  of  a  Huguenot  preacher  who  on 
account  of  religious  persecution  in  l-'rance 
went  to  Holland.  In  1647  Mrs.  Anne  .S. 
Bayard,  a  widow,  came  over  with  Governor 
.Stuyvesant,  bringing  her  four  children  — 
Catliarine,  I'etrus,  Baltha-ar,  and  Nicholas. 
The  Delaware  family  of  Bayards  descended 
from  Petrus  through  his  son  Samuel,  who  set- 
tled in  Maryland.  Colonel  Joiin  Ikiyard,  of 
I'hiladelphia,  in  Revolutionary  times  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Committee  of  Safely,  was  uf  the 
same  line.  One  of  the  early  American 
Bayards  removed  to  Mngland,  where  he 
founded  the  family  from  which  Dr.  Bayard  of 
St.  John  is  sprung. 

Colonel  .Samuel  \'etch  Bayard,  the  Doctor's 
grandfather  was  a  distinguished  officer  in  tiie 
luiglish  army.  He  had  three  sons,  one  of  who.ii 
was  a  captain  in  the  iMiglisIi  army.  One  of 
these  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Waterloo. 
The  other,  a  Post  cajitain  i:i  the  luiglish  navy, 
was  murdered  at  l-'urdham,  N.  ^'.  The  third 
was  Dr.  Robert  Bayard,   above  named. 

Dr.  Robert  Bayard  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the 
Britisli  army  at  the  age  of  thirteen  years,  but 
on  account  of  his  youth  was  allowed  to  pro- 
ceed with  his  studies  at  Winilsor,  N.  .S.      His 


fatlier's  regiment  was  then  stationed  at  Halifa.v. 
He  subsequently  gave  u^i  his  nimission,  and, 
after  reading  medicine  for  a  period,  entered  the 
University  of  Ivlinburgh,  from  which  he  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine,  in 
1809.  The  degree  of  Doctor  of  Civil  Law 
V  as  conferred  upon  him  by  King's  College, 
Windsor,  N. S.  Just  after  his  graduation  he 
became  professor  of  obstetrics  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  ?Jew  York,  l^ut  during  the  War  of  1812 
he  was  forced  to  take  the  oatii  of  allegiance 
or  lea\e  the  country.  Choosing  the  latter 
alternative,  he  made  his  way  to  Portland,  Me., 
from  whence  he  sailed  in  an  open  boat  to  St. 
John,  N. B.,  arriving  in  May,  1813.  Subse- 
quently going  to  Halifax,  N.S. ,  he  was  there 
for  a  short  time,  and  then  settleil  as  a  i)racti- 
tioner  in  Kentville,  N..S. ,  where  he  remained 
until  1S24,  when  he  returned  to  St.  John 
to  spend  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  built 
I'p  an  extensive  |)ractice  in  this  city,  and 
until  hi.'-:  death,  in  June,  1868,  at  the  age  of 
eighty-one  years,  was  one  of  the  most  noted 
physicians  of  this  section.  While  living  in 
Halifax,  N.  S. ,  he  married  Frances  Catherine, 
daughter  of  Commissary  Robertson,  who  was 
killed  in  the  Colonial  War  of  1775,  antl  t!ie 
grand-daugiiter  of  Colonel  John  Billop,  a 
Loyalist,  who,  being  forced  to  abandon  his  old 
home,  his  large  jnoperty  on  Staten  Island, 
New  York  Harbor,  having  been  lonliscated, 
settled  in  St.  John. 

William  Bayard,  when  but  twelve  years  old, 
w^as  sent  to  I-'ordham,  N.  Y. ,  where  for  five  years 
he  was  a  pupil  in  the  school  conducted  by  the 
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was  afterward  iiiulcr  the  private  tuition  of  Dr. 
Valentine  IVIott,  the  celebrated  surfjenn  of  New 
YorK,  whose  fame  became  world-wide;  and  he 
also  attendeil  medical  lectures  at  the  collejje. 
doing  thence  to  ]ulinburj;h,  Scotland,  he  en- 
tereil  the  Univcrsitj-,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  1837  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medi- 
cine. After  spending  a  few  months  on  the 
continent,  visiting  hospitals  in  Paris  and  (ier- 
many,  many  of  which  he  has  since  re\isitcd, 
lie  returned  to  St.  John  and  began  the  i)ractice 
of  his  profession  with  his  father,  whom  he 
eventually  succeeded.  A  writer  familiar  with 
his  career  has  w.itten  of  him  in  these  compli- 
mentary words :  "Almost  fron)  the  start  Dr. 
Ha3'ard  has  made  a  brilliant  success,  lie  has 
been  greatl)'  imnored  b)-  the  medical  frater- 
nity and  b)'  liis  fellow-citi/.ens,  and  it  is  safe 
to  say  that  no  man  in  hi.s  profession  in  the 
Provinces  is  held  in  higher  esteem.  There  is 
not  a  city  or  large  town  in  New  Brunswick, 
Nova  Scotia,  or  I'rince  I']dward  Island  to  which 
he  has  not  been  called  upon  pi'ofessional  busi- 
ness. 

To  the  Docl(n's  persistent  energy  the  .St. 
John  Public  Hospital  owes  its  existence.  He 
bidught  the  matter  of  establishing  sucli  an  in- 
stitution before  the  city  authoiities,  but  re- 
ceived no  encouragement.  He  tried  to  raise 
money  for  the  jiurpose  by  general  subscription, 
but  faileil.  Mmploying  then  a  lawyer  to  draft 
an  act  to  assess  tiie  amount  rctpiired,  be  placed 
the  bill  before  the  Pro\ini'ial  Legislature;  and, 
with  the  assistance  of  the  late  .Sir  Leonanl 
Tilley  and  the  Hon.  John  11.  Gray,  and 
others,  the  bill  to  raise  funds  enough  to  erect 


the  building  and  to  ]irovide  for  its  future  sup- 
port was  jiassed.  Since  its  establishment,  in 
I  .S60,  1)|-.  Ha\ard  has  been  chairman  of  the 
15oai(l  of  Commissioners.  He  was  also  chair- 
man of  the  Hoard  of  Health  for  the  city  and 
county  of  .St.  John,  a  position  to  which  he  was 
ajipointed  by  government  in  iNjS,  ju.st  after 
the  passage  of  the  Sanitary  Act  of  that  year. 
For  four  years  in  succession  he  was  elected 
[iresident  of  the  New  Hrunswick  Medical  So- 
ciety, an  office  which  he  resigned  in  1881. 
He  was  piesident  of  the  Council  of  Physicians 
and  .Surgeons  frcHn  i8S[  until  1S.S5,  when  he 
resigned.  He  was  Coroner  of  the  city  and 
county,  holding  the  position  twenty-eight 
years,  when  there  was  but  one  Coroner  where 
si.\  are  now  re(|uired  to  perform  the  woi'k,  al- 
though there  has  bee;!  but  small  increase  in 
po])ulation. 

Dr.  Hayanl  was  for  sceral  years  the  New 
lirunswick  editor  of  the  Montreal  J/o/ictr/  trm/ 
Smxiciil Jtiiini<i/,  to  which  he.contrihuted  many 
articles  of  value.  lie  is  well  versed  in  all 
branches  of  medicine,  and  is  considered  an 
autborit)-  on  all  subjects  connected  with  the 
science.  Among  his  lectures  that  ;re  of 
especial  value  are  those  upon  "'i'lie  Use  and 
.Abuse  of  Alcoholic  Drinks,"  which  was  given 
before  tlie  Medical  Society,  and  oiie  delivered 
in  Mechanics'  Institute  upon  "The  Progress  of 
I^Iedicine,  .Surgery,  and  Hygiene  during  the 
Last  One  Hundred  ^'ears.  "  He  is  a  Conserv- 
ative in  politics  and  a  member  of  the  Church 
<if  Lngland.  He  was  president  of  the  Cana- 
dian Medical  Association  in  1895,  and  is  now 
chairman  of  the  Pro\ineial  Jioard  of  Health. 


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In  184.S  ])r.  Bayard  nianit'd  Susan  Maria, 
(laughter  of  John  Wilson,  JCscj.,  of  Cluuncook, 
N.  H.,  formerly  a  large  sliip-ownci-  and  mer- 
chant and  one  of  the  jjromoters  of  the  St.  An- 
drew's &  Woodstock  Railway.  It  wa.s  from 
him  that  Dr.  Hayard  received  the  first  tele- 
gram sent  to  .St.  John,  and  whicii  read  thus:    - 

To  l)K.  \V.  li.wAKi).  '^I'K'L  .30.  '■'^5'- 

lieinjj  llie  first  siil)scriher  to  the  Electric  Telegraph 
Ciimpany,  I  am  honored  by  the  first  communication  to 
your  city  announcing  this  great  and  wonderful  wort: 
(lod  has  made  known  to  man  t>y  giving  him  control  of 
his  lightning.  (Signed,         Jo.ix  Wn.sox. 

Mrs.  Hayard  died  in  icS-6,  leaving  no  chil- 
dren. She  was  a  most  estimahle  woman,  hos- 
pitable and  benevolent,  and  always  liapii)- 
when  doing  something  for  others.  .She  was 
eminently  domestic  in  her  tastes,  and  took 
especial  deliglit  in  entertaining  her  own  and 
the  Doctor's  friends.  She  spent  mi.ch  time  in 
looking  after  the  poor  and  iinfortnnate  and  in 
visiting  the  Home  for  Aged  Women,  the  I'rot- 
cstant  Orjihan  .\s\iinn,  and  otiier  charitable 
institutions. 


(5j|-OHN  I.  .STKKVH.S,  a  highly  respected 
citizen  of  Hilisboro,  N.H.,  and  one  of 
its  most  pros|)eroiis  agriculturists,  was 
born  February  13,  1848,  on  the  farm  where  he 
now  resides,  and  on  which  his  father,  the  late 
John  L.   H.  .Steeves,  passed  his  entire  life. 

Among  the  original  settlers  of  this  section 
of  Albert  County  was  Henry,  or,  as  the  name 
is  called  in  Dutch,  Hendrick,  .Steeves,  who 
came  here  from  I'ennsylvania.  In  May, 
1763,  just  aftei   the  close  oi   the  I-'reiicii  and 


Indian  War,  a  sloop  commanded  by  Captain 
Hall  sailed  from  Pennsylvania  for  New  Bruns- 
wick, having  on  board  the  families  of  Hendrick 
Steeves  and  of  Messrs.  Jones,  Trites,  Ricker, 
Lutz,  and  -Somers.  On  July  i  of  that  year, 
after  a  tedious  voyage,  the  vessel  stopjied  at  a 
small  creek  on  the  north  side  of  Gray's 
Island;  and  there  Mr.  Steeves  and  his  wife, 
Rachel,  landed  with  their  seven  sons — Jacob, 
John,  Christian,  Frederick,  Ludwig,  Henry, 
and  Matthias,  whose  ages  ranged  from  four- 
teen years  down  to  two  years.  The  remainder 
of  the  party  proceeded  up  the  river  to  what  is 
now  the  town  of  Moncton.  At  Hilisboro 
Hendrick  Steeves  took  up  a  tract  of  land  that 
was  formerly  settled  by  the  I'rench.  He 
reared  a  log  cabin  for  a  home,  and  struggled 
along  for  a  few  years,  living  largely  upon  the 
game  to  be  found  in  the  vicinity  and  the  fish 
from  the  streams.  Hy  1766,  however,  his 
jirospects  brightened;  and  by  1770  he  and  his 
boys  had  a  large  field  cleared  and  cultivated, 
ami  he  owned  several  cattle.  Thereafter 
prosperity  smiled  upon  his  efforts,  and  he 
lived  in  comfort  the  remainder  of  his  days. 
To-d.iy  his  ilescendants,  through  his  seven 
sons,  may  he  found  among  the  honored  citi- 
zens of  every  Province  of  the  I^ominion  and 
in  every  State  of  the  Union.  O.ic  of  them, 
W.  H.  Steeves,  was  the  first  Postmaster  of 
Hilisboro,  an  office  to  which  he  was  appointed 
in  1.S3J;  and  he  was  further  distinguished  in 
1S47  by  being  chosen  as  the  first  meinber  from 
Albert  Cotinty  to  the  Legislatinx-,  a  iiosition 
to  which  he  was  sidisecpiently  re-elccteil  at 
every  election  until  his  death. 


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Jacob  Steeves,  the  next  in  line  of  descent, 
was  horn  in  Pennsylvania,  where  he  lived 
until  he  was  fourteen  years  old,  when  in  1763 
he  came  with  his  parents  to  llillsboro.  He 
assisted  in  clearing  the  homestead,  to  the 
ownership  of  which  he  succeeded,  and  during 
his  entire  life  was  employed  in  farming,  hunt- 
ing, and  fishing.  When  twenty-one  years  old 
he  went  up  the  Potitcodiac  River  in  a  boat  of 
his  own  construction  to  the  hamlet  at  which 
friends  that  came  from  the  old  provinces,  now 
the  States,  when  he  did  had  settled;  and  there 
he  married  his  first  and  only  sweetheart,  Cath- 
erine, daughter  of  Jacob  Lutz.  Returning 
home  with  his  bride,  he  built  a  log  house 
about  thirty  rods  from  his  father's  abode,  and 
from  that  time  continued  the  improvements 
and  cultivation  of  the  property.  One  of  the 
most  important  of  his  undertakings  was  the 
building  of  dykes  to  keep  the  tide  out  of  the 
marsh.  He  reared  several  children,  one  of 
whom,  John,  the  eldest  son,  was  the  grand- 
father of  John  I.,  the  special  subject  of  this 
sketch. 

John  Steeves  si)ent  his  life  in  Hillsboro,  and 
was  known  far  and  wide  as  one  of  the  leading 
farmers  of  the  day,  as  well  as  an  extensive 
ship-owner  and  mill  operator.  He  was  an 
expert  in  the  use  of  carpenter's  tools  and  of 
surgical  instruments,  and  on  account  of  his 
ability  to  do  any  kind  of  mechanical  work, 
from  the  building  of  a  house  or  shij)  to  the 
amputating  of  a  leg,  he  was  nicknamed  "The 
King."  1  le  married  Jane  Heatty.  .She  died 
at  tlie  age  of  threescore  and  ten,  while  he  at- 
tained the  venerable  age  of  eighty-four.      Both 


were  highly  esteemed  throughout  the  town ; 
and  she  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church, 
which  he  attended.  They  had  a  family  of 
eleven  children,  seven  boys  and  four  girls,  of 
whom  but  one  child  is  living,  namely:  Jane, 
who  is  the  widow  of  Samuel  Gross,  and  has 
four  children  —  Nancy,  Augusta,  Maud,  and 
Frank. 

John  L.  B.  Steeves,  the  youngest  child, 
was  born  in  1821  on  the  Steeves  homestead, 
where  he  successfully  engaged  in  agricultural 
pursuits  during  the  active  part  of  his  life  of 
seventy-one  years.  Taking  an  intelligent  in- 
terest in  all  things  ])ertaining  to  the  welfare 
of  his  town  and  county,  he  became  a  citizen  of 
influence,  and  for  many  years  served  as  Magis- 
trate, and  also  as  .Supervisor  of  Roads.  In 
politics  he  was  identified  with  the  Liberals. 
He  married  Lavina,  daughter  of  Isaac  Gross, 
of  llillsboro;  and  she  survives  iiim,  living  at 
the  old  homestead  with  her  son,  John  I. 
Mrs.  .Steeves  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Bap- 
tist church,  of  which  her  husband  was  for 
many  years  a  Deacon.  Nine  children  were 
born  of  their  marriage,  and  seven  of  them  are 
living;  namely,  Ruth,  John  I.,  iMiinia,  Ada, 
Martha,  Frank  W. ,  and  Laura.  Ruth  is  the 
wife  of  Mariner  J.  Smith,  and  has  four  chil- 
dren— ■  Arnot,  I'rank,  Horace,  and  Gertrude. 
Emma  is  the  wife  of  William  H.  Dutfy,  and 
has  six  children  ^  Arthur,  Carl,  Paul,  Leon, 
Robert,  and  Burjiee;  Ada,  the  wife  of  George 
11.  .Steadman,  has  one  child,  Harold;  Martha, 
whose  first  husband,  Stephen  Colpitt,  left  her 
one  child,  Stephana,  is  now  the  wife  of  James 
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and  Ruth;  Frank  W.  married  Lizzie  Colpitt, 
and  has  three  children  —  Hlanche,  Ora,  and 
Maggie;  and  I^aura  is  the  wife  of  Burpee 
Anderson,  and  has  two  children  —  John  and 
Mary. 

John  I  Steevcs  received  his  education  in 
the  schools  of  Ilillsboro,  and  in  his  father's 
fields  obtained  a  practical  knowledge  of  agri- 
culture. I'oUowing  in  the  footsteps  of  his 
ancestors,  he  has  chosen  farming  as  his  prin- 
cipal occupation,  and  on  the  old  home  farm  is 
meeting  with  admirable  success.  On  Novem- 
ber 2,  1.S80,  he  married  Amanda,  daughter  of 
Jonathan  T.  Colpitt,  of  Salisbury,  N.B.  ;  and 
their  only  child,  Nellie,  was  bor  .  .lay  25, 
1882.  In  politics  Mr.  Steeves  is  a  Liberal, 
and  in  his  religious  belief  he  is  a  Baptist, 
being  an  active  member  of  the  church  of  that 
denomination,  in  which  he  has  succeeded  his 
father  as  Deacon.  Mrs.  Amanda  .Steeves,  a 
sincere  Christian,  belongs  to  the  Methodist 
church. 


[fiDl'ON.  TIIOMA.S  R.  JONH.S,  banker 
and  broker  of  .St.  John  and  e.\-mem- 
ber  of  the  Legislative  Council  of 
New  Brunswick,  was  born  in  St.  John  on  Sep- 
tember 12,  1825,  son  of  John  and  I'^liza  (Rose- 
land)  Jones.  He  is  of  Welsh  ancestry  and  a 
descendant  of  one  John  Jones,  who  was  born 
near  Uanvers,  Mass.,  engaged  in  ship-build- 
ing there,  and  about  177'')  was  sent  to  New 
Brunswick  l)y  the  General  Court  of  Massachu- 
setts to  look  after  certain  ship-buililing  inter- 
ests here.  He  located  where  .St.  John  now 
stands,  but  after  the  Revolutionary  War  went 


with  a  Mr.  Nevcrs  to  Sunbury  County. 
There  he  built  a  large  ship,  which  was 
brought  to  St.  John,  but  upon  reaching  her 
destination  ran  on  the  rocks  ami  was  de- 
stroyed. Although  crippled  financially  by 
this  disaster,  he  subsequently  built  another 
large  ship,  which,  however,  was  burned  by  the 
Americans  in  the  War  of  1812.  Going  subse- 
quently to  the  head  of  The  Mistake  in  Kings 
County,  he  located  a  large  tract  of  land,  which 
is  now  owned  and  occupied  by  his  youngest 
grandson,  llis  wife  was  a  Miss  Mercy  Hil- 
drick,  of  Danvers,  Mass.,  member  of  the  fam- 
ily of  that  name  so  well  known  in  both  Lng- 
land  and  Massachusetts;  and  she  bore  him  a 
large  family  of  chiliiren.  Of  these  Samuel, 
the  eldest,  engaged  in  fanning  in  Kings 
County,  lie  married  Mary  I'almer,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Suni)ury  family  of  that  name  who 
came  here  in  1776.  Of  their  two  sons,  John, 
father  of  the  Hon.  Thomas  R.  Jones,  was  the 
youngest. 

John  Jones  was  a  lifelong  resident  of  .St. 
John.  His  three  children  were:  Thomas  R.; 
Amelia  J.,  who  married  James  M.  Roiiertson ; 
and  Samuel. 

One  of  Mr.  Jones's  maternal  ancestors  was 
that  Thomas  Mullin  who  was  the  first  native 
of  Ireland  that  ever  settled  in  New  Brunswick 
of  whom  there  is  any  authentic  account.  He 
was  born  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  came  out  to 
New  York  inwious  to  the  Revolution,  and  to 
.St.  John  in  1783  with  the  Fall  Fleet  of 
Loyalists.  Here  he  died  in  1796,  and  was 
buried  in  the  old  city  grave-yard,  nearly  in 
front  of  the  present  police  olfice.      He  was  an 


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innkeeper;  and  his  advertisement,  ^iven 
below,  cut  from  the  pa^^^es  of  an  old  newspaper, 
is  both  interesting  and  suggestive:  — 

"Tm(.m.\s  Mri.i.iN-, 

"Who  formerly  kept  the  Royal  Punch 
House  in  the  city  of  New  York,  begs  leave 
to  inform  his  friends,  and  the  public  in  gen- 
eral, that  he  has  now  opened  a  tavern  at  the 
launch  of  Grapes,  No.  403,  Prince  William 
Street,  town  of  Parr,  River  St.  John's,  di- 
rectly opposite  the  public  landing,  between 
the  Exchange  Coffee  House  and  Post  OfTice. 
He  is  at  i)resent  finishing  his  house  in  such  a 
manner  as  to  be  calculated  for  commercial 
business,  public  or  select  comiianies,  etc. 
His  being  always  known  to  keep  a  plentiful 
stock  of  the  best  liquors,  and  an  hospitable 
table,  induces  him  to  hope  for  a  share  of  the 
public  countenance. 

"Having  transplanted  as  much  loyalty  in 
this  promising  country  as  he  could,  he  hopes 
his  friends  and  customers  will  be  pleased  to 
honor  his  tavern  with  the  appellation  of  tiie 
Royal  Punch  House. 

"Said  Mull  in  also  carries  on  the  black- 
smith's business  in  all  its  branches  at  his 
shop  adjoining  the  provision  store.  He  has 
parciciilarly  laid  himself  out  for  heavy  work, 
edge  tools  and  ship  work,  and  will  always  be 
provided  with  a  tolerable  stock  of  hardware, 
etc.  His  customers  may  be  assured  that  all 
orders  for  work  in  said  business  shall  be  exe- 
cuted in  a  proper  manner  and  with  greatest 
desi)atch. 
'•  r.vKK.  .\iigiist  5tli,  17S3." 


The  Hon.  Thomas  R,  Jones  was  engaged  in 
mercantile  business  from  his  fourteenth  year 
until  tiic  time  of  the  great  fire  in  1877,  when 
he  met  with  the  financial  loss  of  nearly  a 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  .Since 
then  he  has  been  successfully  engaged  in  his 
present  line  of  business,  i-'or  eight  years  he 
served  the  city  as  Alderman,  and  for  twenty- 
two  years  be  was  in  the  Legislative  Council. 
Mr.  Jones  was  made  a  Mason  in  1849.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Church  of  I'jigland,  and  at- 
tends St.  Paul's  Churcii.  He  was  married  in 
1852  to  Miss  Mary  Jane  Donney,  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Mary  Donney.  Of  the  eleven 
children  born  of  their  union,  eight  are  living, 
six  sons  and  two  dauirhters. 


§AMES  RHODES  RUEL,  late  Collector 
of  Customs  and  Registrar  of  Shipping 
at  the  port  of  St.  John,  was  born  at 
Pcmbridge  House,  Welsh  Xewton,  Hereford- 
shire, ICngland,  October  22,  1S20,  and  died  in 
St.  John,  N.  P.,  ^Larch  8,  1900.  He  was  a 
son  of  John  Godfrey  and  Catherine  l?arbara 
(Clery)  Ruel. 

The  family  is  of  German  origin,  and  the 
name  was  formerly  spelled  Riihl.  One  of  its 
members  in  tiie  sixteenth  century  was  Dr. 
Johann  Riihl,  of  Mansfeld,  who  is  on  record 
as  having  "filled  a  place  of  considerable  emi- 
nence in  the  political  world  of  his  day,"  being 
Chancellor  of  the  Archbisho|i  of  Mayntz,  the 
Elector  Albert  of  Brandenburg,  antl  the  favo- 
rite counsellor  of  the  younger  counts  of 
Mansfeld,    representing   them   at    the   Diet  of 


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Niiremberfj,  and  at  other  similar  assemblies. 
])r.  Johann  Riihl  was  a  brother-in-law  of  the 
great  religious  reformer,  Martin  Luther  (hav- 
ing married  one  of  his  sisters),  and  supiiortcd 
him  at  the  historic  interview  with  Cardinal 
Cajetan  at  Augsburg.  He  was  a  friend  ami 
correspondent  of  I.uthcr  and  an  honored  guest 
at  his  wedding. 

These  and  other  interesting  particulars  are 
contained  in  a  nionograpii  cntitleil  "The  Par- 
ents and  Kinsfolk  of  Luther,"  by  Robert  C. 
Jenkins,  M. A.,  rector  of  Lyminge  and  Hon- 
orary Canon  of  Canterbury.  Mr.  Jenkins 
is  a  cousin  of  Mr.  Ruel,  the  Collector  of  the 
port  of  St.  John,  and  is  a  grandson  of  Johanna 
Regina  Ruel,  who  claimed  a  direct  descent 
from  Dr.  Johann  Riihl.  The  Kvihl  family, 
which  was  of  senatorial  rank  in  the  city  of 
Heili)ronn,  was  related  to  the  Counts  Fngger, 
Kirchburg,  and  Weissanbarn.  The  present 
head  of  that  house  is  Prince  Babenhausen,  who 
is  a  kinsman  of  Her  Majesty  Queen  Victoria 
through  the  iiouse  of  Hohenlohe-Langcburg. 

Gottfried  Ruhl,  a  descendant  of  Dr.  Johann 
anil  great-grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  settled  in  London  about  one  hundred 
and  eighty  years  ago.  He  was  distinguished 
as  a  man  of  wealth.  Later  generations  of  the 
lamily  in  Lngland  changed  the  spelling  of  the 
name  to  its  present  form  of  Ruel. 

John  Godfrey  Ruel,  grandson  of  Gottfried, 
was  born  in  London  and  educated  at  Harrow. 
I'jitering  the  navy,  he  acquired  considerable 
distinction  as  an  officer  in  the  Royal  Marines 
on  board  H.  M.  .S.  "Thetis"  and  other  war 
vessels,  and  remained  in  the  service  until  the 


declaration  of  peace  in  1815.  In  1817  he 
married  Catherine  Barbara  Clery,  a  descendant 
of  a  French  count,  and  in  1833  he  emigrated 
to  New  Brunswick,  accompanied  by  his  wife, 
six  sons,  ami  three  daughters.  He  returned 
to  ICngland  in  1849,  and  died  there  in  1852. 
His  wife  died  in  1887,  at  the  advanced  age  of 
ninety-eight  years. 

James  Rhodes  Ruel  began  his  education  in 
the  high  school  of  Monmouth,  l-jigland,  and 
completed  it  at  the  grammar  school  in  St. 
John.  Entering  the  service  of  the  city  cor- 
jioration  in  July,  1839,  he  became  successively 
Deputy  Common  Clerk,  Clerk  of  the  Peace, 
Auditor  of  County  and  City  Accounts,  and 
Chamberlain  of  the  City.  On  November  i, 
1870,  he  was  appointed  by  the  Cariadian  gov- 
ernment Collector  of  Customs  and  Registrar 
of  Shipping  at  this  port,  which  position  he 
held  until  his  death;  and  his  long  reten- 
tion in  office  attests  his  efficient  performance 
of  the  important  duties  intrusted  to  his  charge. 
In  September,  1850,  he  became  associated 
with  the  Rev.  Dr.  I.  W.  D.  Gray  in  the  edi- 
torship of  the  Cliiiiili  Witness,  a  newspaper 
established  to  counteract  the  teachings  of  the 
High  Church  party  in  the  Church  of  iMigland; 
and,  taking  its  sole  management  in  1855,  he 
continued  to  conduct  it  until  1864,  when  its 
publication  ceased. 

When  a  young  man  he  supported  the  views 
of  the  Tractarian  school,  but,  becoming  con- 
vinced that  they  were  not  in  accordance  with 
the  teachings  of  the  early  reformers  of  the 
Church  of  luigland,  he  abandoned  them  for  the 
doctrine  as  taught  by  the  ICvangelical   school. 


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He  was  a  member  of  St.  John's  Church 
continuously  from  1833  to  the  time  of  his 
death  and  was  a  warden  for  over  twenty  years; 
and  in  1853,  when  the  churcli  edifice  became 
the  place  of  worship  of  a  separate  parish,  he 
was  elected  a  vestryman  and  vestry  clerk.  Mr. 
kuel  for  many  years  took  a  deep  interest 
in  the  general  welfare  of  the  city  and  its  devel- 
opment. He  contributed  liberally  toward  the 
original  fund  raised  tor  the  purpose  of  estab- 
lishing the  Free  Tublic  Library,  and  served 
as  its  secretary  and  treasurer  from  the  time  of 
its  organization  until  1897,  when  he  resigned. 
During  the  agitation  of  the  project  for  the 
confederation  of  the  provinces,  he  was  chair- 
man of  the  J5ritish  American  Association, 
which  was  founded  especially  to  promote  the 
success  of  that  movement. 

In  1854  Mr.  Ruel  contracted  the  first  of  his 
two  marriages  with  Harriet,  daughter  of  John 
Kinnear.  She  died  in  1859.  having  had  one 
dauj;hter  who  also  died;  and  in  1861 
he  wedded  for  his  second  wife  Sophia 
M.  Johnston,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Hugh 
Johnston.  She  became  the  mother  of  five 
children,  namely:  I'rederick  Herbert  Johnston 
Kuel,  who  is  now  in  the  emiiloy  of  the  Hank 
of  Montreal;  Gerard  Godfrey  Ruel,  LL.  H., 
graduate  of  Harvard  University,  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  now  legal  adviser  of  the  De[)artment  of 
Railways  and  Canals  at  Ottawa;  Isabel  U., 
who  married  A.  M.  Goss,  of  Plymouth,  iMig- 
land;  P'rnest  .Swartz,  wiio  died  in  1894,  at  the 
age  of  twenty-one  years;  and  Claudine,  who 
died  in  i88j.  ICrnest  Swartz  was  a  graduate 
of    the    University    of    New    Ikunswick,    and 


about  to  begin  a  promising  career  as  an  attor- 
ney. Mr.  Ruel's  second  wife  died  in  May, 
1894,  and  to  her  memory  and  that  of  her  son 
he  erected  a  handsome  fountain  in  I'ernhill 
Cemetery,  which  he  had  previously  assisted 
in  beautifying. 


ILAS  ALVVARD,  (J.C,  A.M., 
D.C.I..,  a  highly  iionored  member 
of  the  legal  fraternity,  resident  in 
St.  John,  was  born  at  Hrunswick,  (Jucens 
County,  N.H.,  on  April  14,  1842,  son  of  John 
and  Mary  A.  (Corey)  Alward.  II is  grand- 
father, Benjamin  Alward,  was  one  of  the 
United  Empire  Loyalists  who,  at  the  close  of 
the  Revolution,  came  from  New  Jersey  to 
Queens  County,  where  he  lived  to  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  ninety.  On  his  mother's  side 
also  Mr.  Alward  is  descended  from  one  of  the 
old  Oueens  County  families. 

Mr.  Alward  received  his  degree  as  Haclielor 
of  Arts  in  i860  from  Acadia  College,  and  his 
Master's  degree  in  1871  from  Hrown  Univer- 
sity, Providence,  R.I.,  in  the  States.  In 
1882  Acadia  College  conferred  upon  him  the 
well-merited  degree  of  Doctor  of  Civil  Law. 
He  was  called  to  the  bar  in  1865,  and  has 
since  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his 
l)rofession  in  St.  John.  In  1887  he  was  ap- 
pointed an  advisory  member  of  the  Commis- 
sion on  the  Law  and  Practice  and  Constitu- 
tion of  the  Courts,  and  in  i8gi  was  created  a 
Queen's  Counsel.  Resides  holding  other  po- 
sitions. Dr.  Alward  has  been  president  of  the 
.St.  John  Mechanics'   Institute,  lecturer  in  the 


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law  school  of  Kiiif^'s  College,  Windsor,  ;it  St. 
John,  in  evidence  and  icjuity,  and  a  member 
of  the  Sch()(d  Hoard,  lie  is  at  the  present 
time  governor  of  Acadia  College  and  a  mem- 
ber (il  tlie  law  faculty  of  King's  College, 
Windsor.  Among  iiis  contributions  to  politi- 
cal literature  have  been  two  brochures,  "The 
Issues  ot  the  Day"  (St.  John,  1887)  and  "The 
Record  of  the  Tory  Tarty"  (St.  John,  1887). 
A  I,ii)era]  in  politics  and  an  active  and  influ- 
ential member  of  his  i)arty,  Dr.  Alward  was 
returned  to  the  Provincial  Legislature  in 
March,  1887;  but  from  May,  1S89,  down  to 
1899,  he  was  in  active  opposition  to  the  Hlair 
government.  In  1895  be  was  re-elected  'nr 
St.  John  by  acclamation,  g.e. 

Dr.  Alward  attends  the  Church  of  luigland. 
He  was  married  first  in  1869  to  I'.inilie, 
daughter  of  ]'.  Wickwcre,  of  Canning,  N.S. 
Her  death  occurred  in  1879;  and  in  May, 
1888,  he  married  Sarah  luiith,  daughter  of 
W.  W.  Tundndl,  of  St.  John.  Three  sons 
have  blessed  this  union:  I'lrnest  H.  TurnbuU, 
who  was  liorn  on  April  4,  1S89;  William 
Wallace,  who  was  liorn  on  August  14,  1892; 
and  Cedric  Harold,  who  was  born  on  January 
12,  1898.  Dr.  Alward  and  his  family  resiilc 
at  Sunnyside,  Mount  I'leasant,  St.  John. 


DI.XON    WOOD,   an    extensive    man- 
ufacturer    of    Hay   Verte,    Westmor- 
land  County,  and  one  of    its  most 
eiiter]irising  an<l  progressive  business  men,  was 
born  in  this  town  on  the  3d  of  August,   i84r). 
His  father,  the  late  Oliver  Wood,  was  born 


at  a  settlement  cm  the  River  Herbert  in  Cum- 
berland County,  New  Hrunswick,  where  he 
was  reared  and  educated.  Learning  the  trade 
of  mason  and  plasterer,  he  followed  it  in  Nova 
.Scotia  for  a  few  years  in  his  early  manhood, 
and  then  came  to  Hay  Verte  to  locate  perma- 
nently. Purchasing  a  farm,  he  directed  his 
e'  orts  to  agricultural  pursuits,  in  connection 
with  which  he  worked  sometimes  at  his  trade, 
continuing  both  until  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred on  July  9,  1880,  at  the  age  of  fifty- 
eight  years.  He  was  an  active  member  of  the 
Methodist  church,  to  which  his  wife  also  be- 
longed, and  as  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the 
temperance  cause  was  the  leading  spirit  in 
forming  the  jiresent  division  of  the  temper- 
ance lodge  at  Hay  Verte.  He  married  Cath- 
erine, daughter  of  Richard  Gooden,  of  the 
town,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  eleven 
children,  three  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  Six 
of  the  family  are  now  living;  namely,  R. 
I)i.\on,  Charles,  Liz/.ie,  limma,  Anna  M.,  and 
Clarence  V.  The  mother  died  June  9,  1887,  at 
the  age  of  si.\ty-four  years.  Lizzie  Wood  is 
the  wife  of  W.  J.  Wilson,  of  tbe  (icological 
.Surveying  .Staff  at  Ottawa,  and  has  three  chil- 
dren—  (icrtrude,  Harold,  ;ind  Percy.  I'jnma, 
whose  first  husbanti.  Dr.  Hamford  Duffy,  of 
Moncton,  dieil  leaving  her  two  chiUlren  — 
Doro  and  Arteveldt  —  is  now  tbe  wife  of 
Charles   W.  lulgett. 

R.  Di.xon  Wood  b-anied  tiic  trade  of  a 
mason  and  jilasterer  under  his  father,  and 
worked  at  it  in  various  secti(nis  of  the  county 
for  several  years.  In  1871,  when  ready  to 
establish  a  home  of  his  own,  he  purchased  a 


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larm  nt  scvciUy-fui;  acres,  lyiii;;  on  tlu'  Tid- 
nisli  Koiid  and  there  lollowcd  farming  in  con- 
nect) )ii  witli  Ills  trade  lor  sonic  time.  In 
1.S75  he  enlarj^ed  his  operations  l)y  buyin;; 
forty  acres  of  timber  land  on  the  Tidnish 
Koad  and  fifty  acres  of  hmd  with  a  ^ood 
watcr-jxiwer.  With  characteristic  push  and 
foresij^ht,  he  then  erected  the  first  shinj^lc- 
niill  ever  put  into  operation  in  this  part  of  the 
Province.  After  ninninji  it  successfully  for  a 
number  of  years,  he  was  forced  on  acccunt  of 
ill  health,  which  terminated  in  asthma,  to 
abandon  that  business.  Lookinj^  about  for 
some  means  of  increasini;  his  income,  he  sub- 
se(|uently  formed  a  partnership  with  Charles 
W.  J'lUiott,  inuler  the  firm  name  of  ICliiott  & 
Wood,  and  for  a  year  conducted  a  f,^eneral 
store  at  Hay  Verte  Corner.  Hein^^  very  un- 
fortunate, the  firm  failed,  and  Mr.  Wood  ;,^ave 
U|)  all  his  property  to  his  creditors. 

Startinjj  a^ain  at  the  foot  of  the  ladder,  he 
commenced  making  bo.\es  for  the  lobster  fac- 
tories, and  soon  after  built  a  steam  saw-mill 
on  the  Tidiiish  Road  for  niakin;;  shinf;les  and 
shooks  to  be  used  in  the  manufacture  of 
lobster  boxes.  In  this  he  met  with  j;ood  suc- 
cess until  one  disastrous  day,  July  7,  18.S3, 
when  his  entire  plant  was  burned  to  the 
•ground;  and  as  he  carried  no  insurance  he 
a^;ain  lost  everything;.  Nothinii  daunted, 
however,  he  rebuilt  his  mill  the  same  fall, 
and  resumed  his  manufacturiiii;-.  He  soon 
c.xteniled  his  operations  by  be,i;inninL;  to  man- 
ufacture deals,  and  in  I.S92  bou^jht  the  old 
Crane  estate  at  Hay  Verte  villaj^e,  antl  erected 
his  present  steam   factory,  which   is  ec|uii)ped 


with  the  most  approved  modern  machinery  and 
has  every  facility  required  for  conducting  his 
business.  He  has  likewise  greatly  inii)roved 
the  estate  in  many  particulars,  and  has  more 
especially  added  t'.  the  comforts  and  conven- 
iences of  the  residence,  which  he  and  his  fam- 
ily now  occupy.  A  self-made  man  in  every 
respect  implied  by  the  term,  he  is  held  in 
high  regard  as  a  citizen,  a  neighbor,  and  a 
friend,  and  among  his  business  associates  is 
res|)ected  for  his  great  energy  and  capability. 
He  is  a  Liberal  Conservative  in  politics,  an 
attendant  of  the  Methodist  church,  and  one  of 
its  trustees. 

On  July  4,  1S71,  .Mr.  Wood  married  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  .Samuel  Murry,  of  Murry 
Road,  Hotsford,  N.H.  Oi  their  ten  children 
si.\  are  living;  namely,  ICrnest  V..,  Walter  W., 
Leonard  T. ,  Lavina  M.,  Lva  H.,  and  Helen  C. 


ILLIAM  WOODHURY  WELLS. 
of  Port  lilgin,  Westmorland 
County,  N.15.,  is  well  kiKnvn  in  the  political 
world,  for  the  ]iast  seven  years  having  been  a 
member  of  the  Provincial  Parliament.  He 
was  horn  November.^,  1S60,  at  Pointedu  Bute, 
N.M.,  which  was  also  the  place  of  birth  of  his 
father,  Charles  C.  Wells.  He  is  of  luiglish 
ancestry,  being  a  direct  descendant  of  Will- 
iam Wells,  of  Yorkshire,  luigland,  who  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Dobson,  and  subsequently  emi- 
grated to  Pointe  du  Hute,  N.  H.,  where  as  a 
pioneer  settler  he  cleared  and  improved  a  tract 
of  land  that  is  still  in  posscssicm  of  the  Wells 
fmiily.      William   Wells  was  a  bricklayer  by 


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trade,  and  he  built  a  Methodist  church  at 
Thri)si<,  in  whicii  Wesley  preached  in  1766. 
Until  he  and  his  wife  were  ardent  Methodists; 
imd,  before  they  left  I'.ngland  for  Nova  Scotia, 
John  Wesley  knelt  in  prayer  with  them,  an 
with  a  haTuI  on  the  head  of  each,  commendi 
them  to  divine  protection. 

Henjaniin  Wells,  the  gran<lfather  of  Will- 
iam Woodbury  Wells,  was  a  lifelonj^  resident 
of  I'ointe  du  Hute,  where  he  attained  the  vener- 
able af^e  of  ninety-one  years.  I-'or  several 
years  he  owned  and  operated  a  large  tannery, 
the  products  of  which  he  sold  to  a  j^reat  ex- 
tent in  Newfoundland.  He  was  actively  in- 
terested in  local  affairs,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  church.  He  married  Catherine 
Chappell,  of  Tidnish,  N.S.,  who  died  at  the 
age  of  seventy-two  years.  Of  their  sever 
children  five  survive;  namely,  Charles, 
scph,  William,  IHlen,  and  Jane. 

Charles  C.  Wells  assisted  in  the  various 
branches  of  agriculture  carried  on  by  his 
father  until  1858,  when  he  followed  the  tide 
of  emigration  westward,  hoping  that  in  the 
auriferous  soil  of  the  Pacific  coast  he  might 
more  speedily  and  easily  realize  a  fortune  than 
he  could  by  farming  in  New  Brunswick.  l'"or 
two  years  he  toiled  in  the  gold  fields  of  Cali- 
fornia, meeting  with  fair  success,  but  not 
enough  to  induce  him  to  remain  there.  Re- 
turning to  I'ointe  du  Hute,  he  settled  on  the 
<dd  homestead,  where  he  has  been  pros|)er- 
ously  engaged  in  general  farming  until  the 
present  day.  lie  is  a  Liberal  in  politics, 
lie  married  Sarah  Siddall,  also  of  Pointe  du 
Hute,  and  they  have  three  children — •William 


Woodbury,  Albert  J.,  and  Mphraini  R.  Mr.s. 
Wells  is  a  member  of  the  Haptist  church. 

William  Woodbury  Wells  graduated  from 
Dalhousie    College   in    Nova    .Scotia   in    1886 

th  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws,  doing 
ihcn  to  Dorchester,  N.  U.,  he  continued  the 
study  of  law  with  II.  R.  i'.mmer.son,  the  pres- 
ent Premier  of  New  Brunswick,  and  after  his 
admission  to  the  bar  was  for  a  short  time  in 
Mr.  ICmmerson's  office  at  Moncton.  In  1887 
Mr.  Wells  .settled  at  Port  Llgin,  where  for 
three  years  he  was  principal  of  the  .Sujierior 
.School.  In  1890  he  opened  a  law  office  at 
Port  Klgin,  and  he  has  since  built  up  an  ex- 
tensive and  remunerative  practice,  having 
been  very  successful  from  the  beginning,  his 
local  fame  as  a  lawyer  of  ability  spreading 
rai)i(lly.  He  began  his  active  political  career 
'n    1892,    when    he   was   elected   to    represent 

'estmorland  County  in  the  Provincial  Parlia- 
ment, defeating  a  relative  of  his,  William 
Wilberforce  Wells,  now  Judge  Wells.  Ik- 
was  re-elected  in  1895  by  acclamation,  and 
again  elected  in  l'"ebruary  last  in  a  fiercely 
contested  campaign,  in  which  two  of  his  col- 
leagues were  defeated.  At  the  last  session  he 
was  appointed  Deputy  S|)eaker  of  the  House. 
In  his  jiarty  [ireferences  he  is  a  Liberal;  in 
his  religious  belief  a  Methodist;  and,  frater- 
nally, he  is  a  member  of  the  Port  I^lgin 
Court,  I.  O.  I"'.,  which  court  he  has  re[)re- 
sented  for  several  years  at  the  sessi(jns  of  the 
High  Court  of  New  Brunswick,  and  was  one 
of  the  delegates  to  the  last  session  of  the  Su- 
preme Court,  I.  C).  1'". 

Mr.    Wells   and    KUa,    daughter    of    Hiram 


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'riirnor,  ot  I'ort  I'^l^^in,  were  married  on  Octo- 
ber I,  1889,  ;uk1  they  have  two  children  — 
Thorold  and  Ilildcirarde. 


OSIAll  WOOD,  a  member  of  the 
Senate  of  Canada  since  1895,  is  one  of 
tile  most  ]irominent  and  |iro{;ressive 
hnsiness  men  of  Saci<ville,  Westmoreland 
County,  N.IJ.  He  was  born  in  that  town, 
April  18,  1843,  a  son  of  Mariner  A.  and 
Louisa  (Trueman)  Wood,  His  great-grand- 
father Wood  and  iiis  grandfather  l)oth  bore  the 
name  Josiah. 

The  first  Josiah  Wood  lived  in  Connecticut, 
United  States,  where  he  marrie<l  Ruth  Thomp- 
son, and  where  his  son  Josiah  was  born. 

Josiah  Wood,  second,  canu'  from  Connecti- 
cut to  Dorchester,  N.  H.,  about  1800,  He  had 
a  good  education  and  musical  talents,  and  for 
a  time  after  his  arrival  taught  school  and  led  a 
singing-class.  He  also  had  a  knuwledg?  of 
fulling  and  dyeing  cloth,  and  was  engaged  in 
fitting  up  and  operating  mills  for  that  pur- 
I)ose.  After  his  marriage  he  commenced  a 
general  trading  business  at  Dorchester,  his 
tastes  naturally  inclining  him  to  trading  and 
si)eculatir'\.  He  fre(|uently  made  trips  by 
schooner  to  the  I'nitetl  .States  in  connection 
with  his  business.  On  one  of  these  occasions 
the  schooner  by  which  he  went  to  New  ^''orl< 
late  in  the  autumn  was  unable  to  return  on  ac- 
count of  the  severity  of  the  weather,  and  lie 
undertook  to  make  the  return  journey  on 
horseback.  He  succeeded  in  getting  back  to 
Dorchester,  but  the  exposure  and  coKl  experi- 


enced on  this  journey  so  affected  him  that  he 
died  shortly  after  his  arrival  home.  He  mar- 
ried .Sarah  A)er,  daughter  of  Mariner  Ayer. 
Two  children  were  the  fruit  of  this  union,  and 
the  elder  was  named  Mariner  A.,  in  honor  of 
his  maternal  grandfather. 

Mariner  A.  Wood  was  born  at  Dorchester, 
N.  1?.,  in  1806.  Soon  after  his  father's  death 
he  came  to  Sackville,  where  at  the  age  of 
eighteen  years  he  established  himself  as  a 
merchant.  Having  a  great  ajititude  for  com- 
mercial pursuits,  he  was  very  successful  in 
his  undertakings,  and  built  up  a  large  whole- 
sale and  retail  country  trade.  He  also  be- 
came largely  interested  in  ship-building  and 
lumliering.  When  his  sons  became  old  enough 
he  took  them  into  partnership  with  himself, 
and  under  the  firm  name  of  M.  Wood  &  Sons 
continued  in  business  until  his  death,  in  1875. 
As  a  man  of  high  moral  princijiles,  honest  and 
upright  in  all  his  dealings,  and  a  total  ab- 
stainer fr )' 1  alcohol  in  any  form,  he  was 
held  in  universal  esteem.  His  wife,  Louisa, 
daughter  of  Harmon  Trueman,  of  I'ointe  du 
Hute,  N.IS, ,  died  in  1859,  leaving  two  sons, 
of  whom  Josiah  is  the  only  survivor.  ]5oth 
parents  were  faithful  memiiers  of  the  Meth- 
odist church. 

Josii'ii  Wood  graduated  as  Machelor  of  Arts 
froi'i  the  Mount  Allison  College  in  Sackville 
w'lh  the  class  of  i8ri3.  Intending  to  prepare 
himself  for  the  bar,  he  entered  the  law  office 
of  ex-Judge  (then  Mr.)  A.  L.  I'almer  at  Dor- 
chester, where  he  studieil  four  years.  In 
1867,  owing  to  the  ill  health  of  his  onls' 
brother,    his    f.ither    induced    him     to    return 


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home,  and  soon  after  admitted  both  sons  into 
the  firm,  the  name  becoming  i\i.  Wood  & 
Sons  as  before  stated.  Since  the  death  of 
his  father,  in  1875,  Mr.  Wood  has  conducted 
the  business  alone,  bis  i)rother  having  died  in 
1 87 1.  He  has  greatly  enlarged  his  operations 
during  that  time,  and  now  devotes  himself  al- 
most entirely  to  the  wholesale  department, 
having  a  very  extensive  trade  in  groceries  of 
all  kinds.  A  keen,  wide-awake  man  of  busi- 
ness, he  is  well  known  outside  of  his  own 
town.  He  took  an  important  part  in  the  u])- 
building  of  Moncron,  having  been  associated 
with  some  of  its  leading  citizens  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Moncton  .Sugar  Refinery,  the 
Gas  and  Water  Works,  the  Cotton  Manu- 
facturing Company,  and  other  organizations. 
He  has  always  shown  ar.  interest  in  educa- 
tional matters,  and  is  now  treasurer  of  the 
Board  of  Regents  of  Mount  Allison  Univer- 
sity. An  active  member  of  the  Conservative 
l)arty,  I\Tr.  Wood  has  for  many  years  occupied 
a  place  of  prominence  in  political  circles,  and 
from  1.SS2  until  1895  he  rejiresented  the 
county  of  Westmoreland  in  the  Dominion 
Parliament.  In  the  hitter  year  he  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  Senate,  a  position  which  he  is 
filling  with  creilit  ;ind  ability. 

On  January  14,  1.S74,  iMr.  Woou  married 
Laura  .S.,  (laughter  of  Thompson  Trueman,  of 
Sackville.  Six  children  have  been  born  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wood,  and  five  are  living; 
nai.'cly,  P'leanor  L.,  Herbert  M.,  Dora  B., 
William  T.,  and  Hester  V.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Wood  are  both  members  of  the  ^ilethodist 
church,  toward  the  support  of  which  he  con- 


tributes most  generously,  besides,  as  a  trustee 
of  the  church  ]iroi)erty,  looking  after  its  finan- 
cial condition. 


II.LIAM  KZRA  VROOM,  of  the 
firm  of  X'room  &  Arnold,  marine  and 
general  insurance  agents,  St.  John,  N.  B.,  is  a 
native  of  Nova  .Scotia.  He  was  born  at  Gran- 
ville l-'erry,  Annapolis  County,  on  March  30, 
1837,  the  eldest  son  of  Frederick  I,.  B.  and 
ICunice  (I'oster)  Vroom.  On  the  paternal 
side  he  is  of  Dutch  descent.  His  great- 
grandfather, John  Vroom,  who  was  a  Loyal- 
ist, settled  at  Clements,  Annapolis  County, 
N.  S.,  in  1783,  having  removed  thither  from 
Long  Island,  N.Y.,  after  the  close  of  the 
war  for  American    independence. 

George  Vroom,  son  of  John  and  grandfather 
of  William  !•;.,  resided  in  Clements,  Annap- 
olis County  A  farmer  by  occuiiation,  he  was 
a  man  of  prominence  in  the  community,  and 
served  for  many  years  as  a  Magistrate.  He 
and  his  wife,  wliose  maiden  name  was  Mary 
Ambennan,  reared  a  large  family  of  children. 
In  1855  Mr.  and  .Mrs,  George  Vroom  took  an 
extended  trij)  in  a  wagon,  driving  through 
what  is  now  the  Dominion  of  Canada  to 
N'iagara  b'alls,  and  being  among  the  first  to 
cross  the  suspension  bridge  over  the  falls,  this 
being  shortly  after  it  was  opened  to  |)ublic 
travel. 

I'reilerick  I..  B.  Vroom,  son  of  George  and 
Mary  Vroom,  was  born  in  Clements,  Annap- 
olis County,  in  1813.  lie  learned  the  black- 
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worked  at  it  scime  years.  His  wife,  luinicc, 
was  a  (lau^^liter  of  I';;!ra  l'".  Foster,  of  Hriilj^e- 
town,  Annapolis  County,  and  grcat-.^rand- 
dauf^hter  of  an  luif^lishman  who  came  from 
I'^ssex  and  settled  in  Nova  Scotia  at  a  very 
early  day.  Slie  was  the  mother  of  seven  cliil- 
drcn,  four  of  whom  are  living.  These  are  as 
follows:  William  K,;  Georgiana;  Mary,  who 
is  the  wife  of  Dr.  liingay,  of  Hrier  Island; 
and  Jessey  !•".  (iraves,  of  Aylesfc-.l,  Annaj)- 
olis  County.  ]?oth  ])arents  were  members  of 
the  Church  of  I'^ngiand.  Mrs.  Munice  Vroom 
died  on  December  30,  1875,  and  I'rederick 
L.  ]?.  Vroom,  about  a  week  later. 

William  ]v/.ra.  Vroom  was  educated  in  his 
native  village,  and  remained  there  until  1852, 
when  he  went  to  Bridgetown,  where  he  be- 
came clerk  in  a  mercantile  and  shi[)-buili!ing 
establishment.  Coming  to  .St.  John  two  years 
later,  this  being  the  year  of  the  great  cholera 
epidemic,  he  entered  the  em])loy  of  A.  (jil- 
clirist,  a  dry-goods  merchant,  with  whom  be 
remained  for  another  two  years.  .Subse(|uent 
to  this  he  removed  to  the  Albert  Mines,  and 
there  managed  a  store  for  the  purpose  of  sup- 
l)lying  the  miners  with  provisions  and  tools. 
Withdrawing  from  tiiis  at  the  end  of  a  year, 
he  returned  to  .St.  John,  where  for  a  \ear  he 
was  in  the  emiiloy  oi  the  Hank  of  New  Hruns- 
wick,  and  later  was  chief  clerk  for  the  Hon. 
John  Robertson,  with  whom  he  continued 
until  the  fall  of  1869.  At  this  time  be 
.'ormed  a  partnershi])  with  Mr.  K.  H.  Arnold, 
which  has  e.Nisted  through  all  the  intervening 
years.  At  first  the  two  partners  were  in  busi- 
ness for  a  year  in  Montevideo,  South  America,  | 


and  upon  their  return  from  that  |)lace  they  es- 
tablished their  present  line  of  business  in  .St. 
John.  They  have  here  met  with  good  suc- 
cess, as  their  honorable  methods  of  dealing  in 
all  their  transactions  have  won  and  ke])t  for 
them  the  confidence  of  the  public. 

In  1864  Mr.  Vroom  was  united  in  marriage 
with  .Sarah  (i.  Honil,  a  native  of  Neston  on 
the  Dec,  ICngland,  but  a  resident  of  this  coun- 
try since  her  twelfth  year,  when  she  crossed 
the  ocean  with  her  father,  (ieorge  W.  Hond. 
The  following-named  children  have  been  born 
to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Vroom:  John  IMckman,  who 
is  in  the  customs  department,  Kaslo,  H.C.  ; 
Eunice  Frances,  wife  of  lulmund  I.  .Simonds; 
Mary  L.  ;  (i.  H.  \V.  McK.  ;  and  Frederic 
L.  15.  Mr.  \'room  is  a  thirty-second  degree 
Mason.  He  and  his  family  are  members  of 
the  Church  of  F^ngland. 


RTIHR  C.  FAIRWKATHHR,  of  .St. 
John,  barrister-at-law,  and  general 
agent  for  the  Province  of  the  Com- 
mercial L'nion  Assurance  Company  of  London 
and  the  I'heni.x  Insurance  Comjiany  of  Brook- 
lyn, was  born  in  St.  John,  April  23,  1844, 
son  of  Jo.'-eph  and  Jane  (Wbittaker)  Fair- 
weather.  He  is  of  Loyalist  ileseent ;  and  an 
account  of  his  ancestry  may  be  found  in  the 
sketi  ■  of  his  elder  brother,  George  lulwin 
{•"airweather,  which  ajipears  on  another  page  of 
this  volume. 

He  was  etlucated  at  the  grammar  school  of 
Kingston,  Kings  County,  and  at  the  Col- 
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law  ill  the  office  of  Messrs.  Gray  &  Kaye,  and 
was  admitted  an  attorney,  June  i6,  1865,  and 
barrister  in  the  month  of  June,  \i^6y.  Since 
then  he  has  i)een  enga;,^ed  in  the  practice  of 
his  profession  and  in  the  fire  insurance  iiiisi- 
ness.  lie  has  also  been  interested  to  a  con- 
siderable extent  in  farming  and  stock-raising 
at  Fir  Shade  Farm.  Kothcsay,  Kings  County, 
where  he  resides. 

lie  was  married  in  August,  1866,  to  Miss 
Annie  R.  Lcc,  daughter  of  the  late  (ieorge 
I.ee,  Jr.,  M.A.,  of  I'-redericton.  Their  chil- 
dren now  living  are:  Afargaret  Lee,  .Stewart 
Lee,  Percy  R.  Lee,  Jack  H.  A.  Lee,  Muriel 
Lee,  and  Annie  R.   Lee  l-"airweather. 


n^i:i'Hi;N     huri'i:I':    ai'I'lI'IBV, 

barrister-at-law,  Woodstock,  N.H. 
was  born  in  b'lorenceville,  Carleton 
Count),  N.H. ,  October  21,  1833,  son  of 
Charles  S.  and  Letitia  (Hurpee)  Appleby. 
His  grandfather  Appleby  was  born  in  b-ng- 
land,  and  was  for  a  while  a  solilier  in  the 
British  army. 

Charles  .S.  Appleby  was  born  in  -St.  John, 
N.  B.,  where  he  spent  his  earliest  years.  He 
was  left  fatherless  when  a  lad,  and,  haviDg 
moved  with  his  widowed  iiuither  to  .Sunbuiy 
County,  there  learned  the  carpenter's  'rade. 
At  thih  he  worked  continuously  until  his  mar- 
riage, when  he  purchased  land  in  Florence- 
ville,  where  he  improved  a  fine  homestead 
property,  and  engaged  in  agricultural  labor 
until  his  death.  lie  was  the  first  I'DStmaster 
at  Fiorenceville,  an  office  which  he  filled   sev- 


eral years,  and  at  one  time  was  also  in  the 
customs  department.  A  man  of  ardent  tem- 
perance proclivities,  he  e.\erted  a  good  influ- 
ence in  the  community,  and  was  a  valued 
member  of  tiie  .Sons  of  Tcmi)erance.  He  be- 
longed to  the  (Congregational  Church  of  Shef- 
field County,  and  contributed  generously 
toward  its  support.  He  married  Letitia, 
daughter  of  Joseiih  Ibirpee,  of  .Sheffield,  .Sun- 
bury  County,  and  they  became  'he  parents  of 
seven  children,  namely:  one  that  died  young; 
Charles,  deceased;  James  W. ,  deceased; 
.Stephen  Hurpee,  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
Isaac  Watts,  deceased;  J'Ibene/.er,  who  died 
when  a  lad;  and  Caroline  I'^sther,  wife  of 
William  .S.   I'eters,  of  bTorenceville. 

Stephen  B.  Appleby  laid  a  substantial  foun- 
ilation  for  his  future  education  in  the  common 
schools,  and  then,  after  serving  a  year  or 
two  as  a  clerk  in  a  mercantile  establishment, 
read  law  in  the  office  of  Lewis  P.  b'isher.  of 
Woodstock.  He  subsequently  attended  lect- 
ures at  the  Harvard  Law  .School,  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  and  at  the  University  of  Albany, 
N.V.,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  Bach- 
elor of  Laws.  In  C~)ctober,  i8r)8,  he  was  ad- 
mitted as  an  attorney,  and  the  following  year 
was  made  barrister.  He  has  since  practised 
his  profession  most  successfully  in  Wood- 
stock, and  has  been  especially  fortunate  in 
the  prosc'-ution  of  criminal  cases.  1 L'  is  a 
Referee  in  lujuity  for  Carleton  County,  and 
also  Registrar  of  the  county's  births,  deaths, 
and  marriages. 

b'raternally,  Mr.  Appleby  is  a  member  of 
Woodstock  Lodge.   I'.    &   A.    M.      Politically, 


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he  is  an  intense  Libera!  and  an  uncompromis- 
ing Free  Trader.  In  September,  1873,  lie 
was  elected  to  the  Dominion  I'arliament,  and 
re-elected  in  i>S74  l)y  acclamation.  He  served 
continuously  until  1.S7S,  an  honored  recnnl  of 
public  service  that  shows  tiie  esteem  in  wliich 
he  is  held  throughout  the  Province.  In  his 
earlier  lile  he  was  identified  with  the  militia 
in  an  official  capacity,  havin--  been  either  Ad- 
jutant or  Captain  of  a  company  of  militia  for 
a  number  (,^  years.  He  is  a  regular  attendant 
of  the  Presbyterian  church,  although  in  relig- 
ious preference  he  is  a  Congregational ist. 

Mr.  Appleby  married  Harriet  l-Hizabeth, 
daughter  of  John  II.  Ivstey,  of  h'lorenceville, 
N.H.  Mr.  and  Mrs  Appleby  have  five  chil- 
dren, namely:  Kate;  Charles;  Mary,  wife  of 
1'.  W'ilmot  Watson,  of  the  ])arish  of  Rich- 
mond, Carleton,  N.H.  ;   Helen;  and  Ruth. 

Charles  Ajjplcby,  M.A.,  LL.H.,  studied 
law  with  his  father,  received  the  degree  of 
Master  of  Arts  from  the  Cniversity  of  New 
Urunswick  and  the  degree  of  Hachelor  of 
Laws  from  the  Albany  Cniversity,  his  father's 
Alma  Mater.  He  is  now  senior  member  of 
the  firm  of  Apjileby  &  Ketchum,  publishers  of 
the  Woodstock  Dis^atcli.  He  is  likewise 
Lieutenant  in  the   Hrighton  ICugineers. 


[75)T*>N,  I'Ri'Hi'.Ric  i;.  h.\kivi:r,  .m.a., 

1).  C.  I,.,  Judge  of  the  .Supieme  Court 
if  New  Ihunswiik,  was  boiii  on 
Decembei'  27,  if^.i^',  ;it  Shellield,  Sunbiiiy 
County,  N.  H. ,  son  of  I'.noch  and  Mary  S.  liarker, 
both  of  whom  are  now  deceased.      His  paternal 


ancestors  emigrated  to  ShefTield  from  the  State 
of     Massachusetts     previous    to     1760.       Mr. 
Harker    received    his    education     at     Sunbury 
(irannnar   .School  .'tiid   King's  College,  now  the 
University  of  New  Brunswick.      He  graduated 
at  the  latter  institution,  receiving  the  degree  of 
bachelor  of  Arts  in  1857,  and  he  subsequently 
took  the  degrees  of   Master  of  Arts,  ]?achclor 
of  Civil  Law,  and    Doctor  of   Civil    Law.      He 
was  admitted  as  an  attorney  in    i860,  as  a  bar- 
rister in  1861,  ami  appointed  a  O. C.   in   1872. 
He  studied   with   the   late  Mr.  Justice  ]''isher 
when     at     the    bar,     and     was     afterward     for 
si.\    )ears   in    partnership    with    tlie    late    Mr. 
Ju.stiee    Wetmore.       He    has    been    president 
of  the   l?arristers'    Society  of  New  Brunswick 
and  of  the    St.  John  Law  Society,  and  was  for 
several    years    a    member    of    the    Council    of 
each  of  these  societies.      He  is  also  a  member 
of  St.  Cicorge's  Society,  of  which  he  was  presi- 
dent for  two  years,  and  is  president  of  the   .St. 
John  Bridge  and  Railway  Lxtension  Company. 
In  politics  Judge  Barker  was  an  active  Con- 
servative.    He  was  Representative  in  the  Iloi.se 
of  Commons   for  the  city  of  St.  John,  having 
succeeded  Sir  Leonard  Tilley  upon  that  gentle- 
man's apiiointment  to  the  governorship  of  New 
Hrimswick    in    18S5,    but   at    the  general   elec- 
tions the   following  \ear  was  defeated.      Judge 
Barker   is  a  stanch    member  and   supporter  of 
the  Church   of   England,   and    is  a   warden    of 
St.   Paul's   Church    in   St.  John.      He  was  one 
of  the  commissioners  ajipointed  by  the  govern- 
ment of  New  Bnniswick  in  1875  to  cons(didate 
the  statutes,  and   a   member  of  the   Law  Com- 
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government.  In  l'*^93  lie  \v;is  iiiipninled  to  tlie 
office  lie  has  since  so  ably  tilled,  that  of  a 
Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court.  In  1896  he  \va.s 
appointed  Administrator  of  the  ("lovernmeiit 
of  New  Urunswick  during  the  absence  on  leave 
of  the  late  Lieutenant-governor  l''iaser. 

Judge  barker  ha.s  been  twice  married.  His 
first  wife,  whoni  he  married  in  1X65,  was 
Julia,  daughter  of  lulward  Lloyd,  the  latter  at 
that  time  a  member  of  the  Ko\al  Lngineers' 
Civil  Sta'f  stationed  at  St.  John.  Hy  this 
union  there  were  two  daughters  and  one  son. 
The  son,  who  graduated  at  the  Koyal  Military 
College  at  King.ston,  is  now  a  Cajitain  in  the 
Royal  Artillery  and  stationed  in  Malta. 
Judge  Harker  married  second,  Mary  Ann, 
daughter  of  the  late  li.  A.  Black,  of  Hal i fa?;, 
N.  S.      There  are  two  daughters  by  this  union. 


OHKRT     MURRAY,    barrister-at-law, 


Chatham,  X.  H.,  was  Ixirn  in  this  place 
in    1855,    son    of    liobert    and    Jane 
(Wright)  Murray. 

Robert  Murray,  llic  elder,  was  Im;  n  in 
Annan,  .Scotlaiu',  in  1.S16.  He  was  a  small 
boy  at  the  time  of  the  death  of  his  father, 
John  Muriay,  and  was  about  nine  years  of  age 
when  he  came  to  America  with  his  mother's 
family.  He  landed  at  Riihihucto,  X.li. ,  aiul 
thence  proceeded  to  I'ictou,  .\..S. ,  where  be 
was  apprenticed  to  learn  the  tanner's  and  cui- 
rier's  trade.  .Subse<pu'ntly,  in  iiSjiS,  he  en- 
tered a  mill  in  Miramichi,  N'.li..  and  learned 
the  trade  of  millwright.  This  occujiation  he 
followeil  until   1S75,  and  in  that  period  he  |)ur- 


chased  a  tract  of  land  which  he  made  into  a 
fine  farm.  Duiing  his  remaining  years  be 
devoted  himself  to  farming,  in  which  he  was 
most  successful.  Mis  tleath  in  i!^97  was  the 
result  of  a  fall.  His  wife,  Jane,  was  a  native 
of  Belfast,  Ireland.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
William  Wright,  who  came  to  this  country 
about  1S24.  Robert,  .Sr. ,  and  Jane  Murray 
were  the  parents  of  seven  children,  as  follows: 
Joseph  Herbert,  I'llizabelb  J.,  John,  Henri- 
etta, Robert,  Catherine,  and  Margaret  Amanda. 
Joseph  Herbert  died  in  1X65,  at  twenty-one 
years  of  age.  I^lizabetb  J.  married  John  luig- 
land,  a  shipwright  of  Chatham,  now  resident 
in  Indianapolis,  Ind.  John  was  killed  by  the 
premature  explosion  of  a  canon  while  engaged, 
as  a  member  of  the  Chatham  Garrison  Hattery, 
in  firing  a  salute  to  Lord  Dufferin  in  July,  1H73. 
He  was  twenty-four  years  okl.  Henrietta  is 
the  wife  of  William  Johnston,  Town  Treasurer 
of  ("hatham.  Catherine  died  at  seven  years  of 
age,  and  Margaret  Amanda  died  at  live.  The 
mother  of  these  children  died  on  l'"ebruary  9, 
i.S9,S,  in  the  seventy-ninth  year  of  Iut  age. 
Robert  Murray,  .Sr. ,  was  a  member  <if  the 
Mei'lianies'  Institute. 

Robert  Murray,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  educated  at  the  I'reshyteiian  Academy  of 
Chatham,  under  the  tutorship  of  William 
Crockett,  late  .Superintendent  of  lulucalion  of 
New  Brunswick.  In  1S7.S  be  entered  the  law 
office  of  Andrew  II.  Johnson,  and  on  l'"el)ruary 
15,  1SS2,  was  admitted  attorney,  and  in  Ajjril, 
1.S83,  barrister.  He  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  this  town  in  the  following  March, 
and  has  since  shown  his  fitness  as  a  legal  prac- 


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titioncr.  ( )ii  March  14,  1S87,  he  \v;is  ap- 
pointed J'dliie  Magistrate  nl'  Ciiatham ;  and 
til  is  office  he  iield  until  iiScjj,  when  he  le- 
si};ncd.  in  the  fall  of  iiSyi  he  was  elected 
CoiMuiilor  to  represent  the  parisli  of  Chatliam 
on  the  Municipal  l!oard  of  the  county.  After 
h(dding  tliis  oflRce  lor  two  }ears,  he  declined 
another  nomination.  Since  iS<S6  he  has  hcen 
Referee  i"  '"iiuit)'.  In  1892  he  was  em|)loyed 
by  tlie  county  as  prosecutor  foi'  the  .Scott  Act. 

Mr.  Murray  is  connccteil  witli  various  fratci- 
nal  societies,  lie  is  a  Past  Master  of  Mira- 
michi  Lodge,  ]'".  &  A.  M.,  and  Secretary  of 
Mount  Lebanon  Chapter,  K.  A.  M.  He  be- 
hinys  also  to  the  1.  ( ).  !•'.,  of  wliiih  he  is 
I'ast  Chief  Ranj^er,  and  to  the  .\ncient  ( )rdcr 
of  Unitcil  Workmen.  lie  is  a  member  of 
.St.  Andrew's  Presi))terian  Church,  and  sinj^s 
in  its  choir. 

Mr.  Murra\-  was  man  ied  in  1SS9  to  Jane 
.Simpson,  daughter  of  .Simon  Simpson,  of  .Nei;- 
uac,  X.  H.  Three  children  have  l)een  born  of 
tliis  union-  .Nina  llelen,  \'cra  Alice,  and 
k<ii)crt  Jilaine.  .Mr.  Murray  is  Major  and 
(Juartermaster  of  the  .Seventy-tliird  Hattalion 
of  infantry.  In  politics  he  is  a  Liberal.  Ho 
is  secretary  of  the  Nortlunnberland  Count)' 
Liberal  y\ssociation. 


liRl)  PICTKR.S,  City  Kngineer  of  .St. 
John,  was  born  in  P'redei  icton,  N.H., 
yXugust  2S,  i.S:;o,  son  of  the  lion. 
Cl'.arles  Jeffrey  and  Mary  Ami  l^li/abeth 
(Forbes)  Peters.  It  is  said  that  the  fust 
American    ancestor    of    this    faniilv    of    whom 


there  is  ,iny  authentic  knowledj^'e  was  Charles 
Peters,  wiio  was  registered  as  a  physician  in 
N'ew  York  in  1703.  X'alentine  Hewlet  I'eters, 
the  great-grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this 
skeicli,  was  a  nati\e  of  Long  Island.  His  son, 
James  I'eters,  who  was  also  born  there,  was 
a  Ro)alist;  and  after  the  close  of  the  Ameri- 
can Re\olution  he  came  to  \ew  Hrunswick 
with  his  seven  children,  arriving  at  St.  John 
May  i.S,  1783.  He  was  one  of  tlie  fifly-five 
commissioners  appointed  for  tiie  allotment  of 
land  offered  by  the  crown  to  tliose  who  ])re- 
ferrecl  to  leave  the  newly  organized  republic 
and  accept  tlie  offer  of  homes  in  this  I'rovince. 
After  carr\  iiig  (Ui  mercantile  business  in  .St. 
John  for  a  time,  he  removed  to  (lagetown, 
where  he  settled  on  an  estate,  and  was  subse- 
cpiently  appointed  Judge  of  the  Inferior  Court 
of  Common  Pleas.  James  Peters  married 
Margaret  Lester,  a  native  of  Long  Island. 
She  died  in  1825. 

Charles  Jeffrey  Peters,  Hurd  I'eters's  father, 
son  of  James  and  Margaret,  was  born  in  Ilam|)- 
slead,  (jueeiis  County,  N.\'.,  in  ( )ctober,  1773, 
and  was  in  his  tenth  \earwlien  he  accompanied 
his  parents  to  .St.  John.  He  studied  law  with 
Ward  Chijiman,  the  elder,  before  Mr.  Chip- 
man's  elevation  to  the  bench  of  the  .Supreme 
Court,  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  began  the 
practice  of  his  prcjfession  in  Kingston,  Ont. 
Returning  to  .St.  John,  he  was  appointed  Com- 
mon Clerk,  an  office  which  he  held  for  twenty- 
lour  years,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  son  James, 
who  retained  it  for  the  same  length  of  time; 
ami  after  him  his  nephew,  H.  Lester  Peters, 
held  it  for  the  same   period.      He   later  became 


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Sdlicitor-doncral  ol  tlu'  I'roviiui',  and  in  1830 
was  clevatcil  til  tlic  posilidn  ol  Attoi  ncv  (leii- 
cral,  in  which  capacity  he  scrvi'd  with  ability 
for  the  rest  of  his  life.  ( )n  two  iKasioiis  he 
declined  to  accept  a  scat  upon  thi'  Supreme 
Hendi.  He  died  in  l'"cl)rnary,  1S4S.  His 
liist  wife,  whom  he  man  ied  in  Kingston,  was 
a  daiij^htcr  of  Captain  liai\er  of  tlie  Uritish 
army.  I'or  liis  second  wife  he  married  Mary 
Ann  Kli/ahcth  I'Virbes,  who  was  horn  in  I'.ny;- 
land,  dauylUer  of  (iecr^e  Anthony  l''orbes, 
Surgeon  General  of  the  liritish  forces  in  tlie 
West  Indies.  .She  died  in  1866.  I'he  lion. 
Charles  Jeffrey  I'etcrs  was  the  father  of  tweni) 
one  ciiildrcn,  twcKe  by  his  fust  marriage  and 
nine  by  his  second;  and  llurd,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  was  the  seventeenth-born. 

llurd  Peters  was  awarded  a  silver  medal 
iipo'i  the  completion  of  his  course  at  the  Col- 
legiate .School ;  and  he  won  a  gold  medal  for 
e.xtraordinary  proticiency  in  his  studies  at 
King's  College,  ncjw  the  L'ni\crsity  of  New 
Brunswick,  from  which  he  graduated  as  a 
Hachelor  of  Arts,  and  subsecpiently  received 
the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts.  He  was  also 
awarded  a  diploma  by  the  college  at  the 
conclusion  of  the  sjiecial  course  in  engineer- 
ing under  Mr.  Cregan,  (!.  I'..  He  was  em- 
ployed as  leveller  in  constructing  the  lunopean 
and  North  yXmerican  Railway  from  .St.  John 
to  X'anceboro  and  on  what  is  now  the  Inter- 
colonial KaiKva\'  between  .St.  John  and  Monc- 
ton.  In  Ifi54  he  formed  a  iiartnership  with 
the  late  J.  l-^dward  ]?oyd,  M.T.C.  I'.. ,  with  whom, 
imder  the  firm  name  of  Peters  &  lioyd,  he 
carried    on    business    in    .St.    John    until    Mr. 


H())(l  accepted  a  position  on  the  government 
railways.  Mr.  Peters  then  continued  to  con- 
duct the  work  of  their  offue  until  a|)pointe(I 
City  .Surveyor,  in  April,  i.srii.  In  July,  iSfi^, 
the  ofTice  of  City  I'Jigineer  was  established; 
and,  being  reappointed  imder  that  title,  he  has 
held  the  position  continuousl)'  to  the  present 
time.  He  h;is  accpiircd  a  high  rc|iutation  foi- 
professional  ability,  and  the  ])rescnt  condition 
of  the  city  streets  and  highways  fully  attests 
the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duties. 

In  1S60  Ml-.  Peters  married  I'.mily  Mary 
llaire,  daughter  of  Dr.  Ilaire,  formcrl)-  of 
Xewfoundland  and  later  of  Cape  Breton,  where 
she  was  born.  Of  this  union  there  were  five 
chililren,  three  of  whom  died  in  infancy  and 
two  are  living;  namely,  Florence  l,e  P'evre 
and   Ralph  Dowling  Peters. 

The  disastrous  fire  which  visited  .St.  John 
in  1.S77  destroyed  Mr.  Peters's  residence  and 
office,  with  all  his  plans,  memoranda,  and  so 
forth.  He  was  one  of  the  incorporators  and 
a  member  of  the  l*"irst  Council  of  the  Canadian 
Society  of  Civil  Engineers.  He  was  formerly 
(piite  active  in  military  affairs,  and  retired 
with  the  rank  <if  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the 
Second  Hattalion,  .St.  John  Coimty  Militia. 
He  has  also  held  offices  of  trust  in  connection 
with  the  Church  of  I'ingland,  of  which  he  is 
a  devotetl  member. 


7TXH  ARLP:S     !•".     WOODMA.N,     of     the 
I  J|        firm  of   Miller  &  Woodman,  the   well- 

^ '  known   hunber  manufacturers  of  St. 

John,    was   born    in    \'ork   County,    Maine,    in 


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iSj?,  sun  III  Sl'woII  ,iml  Ann  (Mailc)  Wooil- 
niaii,  both  ni  liis  parents  luin;,'  natives  ol 
Maine  and  "f  I'uritan  ancestry. 

Mr.  Wdddnian,  as  a  bn)-,  learned  tlie  \ariiiiis 
processes  nt  Innilier  nianulaetminj;,  in  wliicli 
Ills  fatiier  was  extensisely  enj;a{;e(l ;  and  it  is 
l)ut  natural  that  he  .shouhl  iiave  devoted  his 
workin};  life  to  this  activity.  On  March  5, 
iS^f),  he  came  to  .St.  John,  and  here,  in  com- 
pany with  Ml'.  Miller,  orjjani/ed  the  lirm  of 
Miller  iS;  Woiidman.  The  mills  jireviously 
operated  b)'  Messrs.  Mason  &  Vincent  at  Koii- 
ertson's  I'oint  were  [lurchased ;  and  the  firm 
at  once  began  the  manufacture  of  sugar  boxes, 
which  were  sliipjied  to  the  West  India  Islands. 
Later  they  cut  spruce  lumber.  At  the  present 
time  they  carry  on  one  of  the  largest  lumber 
manufacturing  concerns  in  .New  Jhunswiik, 
annually  cutting  t\vent\'  niiilicm  feel  of  spruce 
lumber  and  thirlN-five  million  shingles.  Their 
re])utatioM  for  business  enterprise  is  et|ualled 
only  by  their  reputation  for  business  integrity, 
and  the  product  of  their  mill  is  known  to  be 
always  exactly  as  rcjjresenled. 

Mr.  Woodman  was  married  in  iS.S^  to  Mary 
Na.se,  a  daughter  of  I'iiilip  Xase,  who  for  many 
years  was  a  prominent  merchant  in  Indian- 
town.  Mr.  Woodman's  success  as  a  business 
man  has  won  reiognition  in  liiiancial  circles; 
and  some  time  since  he  was  asked  to  serve  as 
a  director  of  tiie  Hank  of  .New  Jirunswick, 
which  is  one  of  the  most  conservative  and  at 
the  same  time  one  of  the  most  prosperous  finan- 
cial institutions  in  tiie  I'rovince.  Mr.  and 
.Mrs.  Woodman  attend  .St.  Luke's  I'Ipiscopal 
Church. 


\Mri:L    riioMSoN.  o.c,    ..f 

^/^  .Newcastle,  the  oldest  practising 
barrister  in  the  province,  was  born 
at  Chatham,  N.  H. ,  October  17,  1825,  .son  of 
the  Rev.  James  and  Catiierine  (M'Kay)  Thom- 
son. II  is  father,  who  was  of  the  Secession 
Church  of  Scotland,  was  the  first  permanently 
settled  Presbyterian  miTiister  in  New  Jiruns- 
wick,  and  the  founder  of  St.  Andrew's  Church, 
Chatham.  Coming  from  I)unifries,  .Scotland, 
in  1S16,  he  labored  faithtull)-  u.-.til  his  prema- 
ture decease  in  1S30.  Mr.  Thomson's  mother, 
\vht)also  was  a  native  r)f  Scotland,  died  in  i.S5,S. 

Samuel  Thomson,  after  receiving  a  gram- 
mar-school education,  studieii  law  with  John 
Am[)rose  Street  antl  George  Kerr.  Admitted 
an  attorney  in  1846  and  called  to  the  bar  in 
1S4S,  he  has  neen  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession for  lifty-two  \  e.us,  for  two  or  three 
in  partnership  with  .Mr.  Kerr  and  since  that 
time  alone.  His  piactice  has  extended  to 
all  the  courts  of  the  province.  He  is  Judge 
of  I'robate,  Clerk  of  the  County  Court,  Clerk 
of  the  I'eace,  .Secietary  and  Treasurer  of  the 
county,  and  Clerk  of  the  Circuits.  He  re- 
sided in  Chatham  until  icS^.S,  when,  on  his 
appointment  as  Clerk  of  the  Peace,  he  removed 
to  Newcastle. 

Judge  Thomson  was  married  in  iS^cj  to  Miss 
Jane  McCurdy,  of  Truro,  N.  S.,  a  daughter  of 
Isaac  and  Nancy  (Hlanchard)  .McCm-dy.  They 
have  eight  children,  fixe  daughters  and  three 
sons,  all  of  whom  are  now  living;  nimely, 
Anna  (',.,  llliza  I.,  .\lm,i  K.,  Adelaide,  Jean, 
Charles  J.,  lulward  H. ,  and  (leorge  K. 
Thomson. 


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Jii(l:;c  'riidnisoii  lias  tlii(iiii;liciut  liis  carci''' 
L'si'lii'wod  politics.  His  iclinioiis  aniliatioiis 
are  with  the  I'icsh)teiian  fl'urcli.  He  is  one 
ol  the  oldest  nienihers  of  Nortluimherlaiul 
I.oiliie,  l'-.  &  A.   M. 


I.KMl'lNT  ri'XKHAM  CI.ARKi:,  the 
oiliest  established  driigj,nst  in  St.  John, 
was  born  in  that  city,  Marcii  15, 
1S36,  eldest  son  of  John  and  Susannah  (Parlee) 
Clarke,  lie  is  a  great -grandson  of  James 
Clarke,  a  Loyalist,  who  married  l-'.li/.aheth 
I'eckham,  ;ind  with  his  wife  and  family  came 
to  New  Hrunswick  in  i/J^.v 

James  Clarke's  son,  John  Clarke,  Sr. ,  grand- 
father of  Clement  I'.,  was  liorn  in  Newport, 
R.I.,  May  .^i,  1760.  On  coming  to  St.  John, 
he  estahli.ihed  himself  in  the  baking  business, 
for  nian\-  years  supplying  His  Majesty's  trooii.- 
and  being  very  successful.  His  residence, 
which  was  at  the  corner  of  Main  (now  Hroad) 
and  Sydney  Streets,  was  destroyed  in  the  great 
fire  of  1.S77.  He  was  for  fifty  years  jiarish 
clerk  of  Trinity  Church,  St.  John  i)arisli ;  and 
at  his  death  a  monument  was  crecteil  to  his 
memory  h\  the  corporation  of  tlu'  chuich. 
He  was  nianied  ( )ctober  i;j,  \J^S'  '"  A'i";i 
I'eck,  who  was  born  ( )ctober  C),  1767.  Their 
children  were:  Jane,  who  became  Mrs.  Treph- 
ager ;  James;  Isaac;  !•' ranees,  who  became 
Mrs.  Thomas  Reed;  Mar\  I'^li/abetb;  Msther; 
John,  fathei  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
Ann,  who  became  Mrs.  JauKs  'rawford;  and 
Augusta,  who  \\,\s  the  wif.  (  f  I).  A.  Cameron. 
I'rances,  .Mai\-,   and    M'.i/a    lost    their    li\i's    in 


the  tire  of  1877.  Aftei'  the  death  of  his  lirst 
wife  John  Clarke,  Sr. ,  married  Jane  Majori- 
banks,  who  died  in  i.S'40.  He  died  in  St. 
John,  November  30,   I1S55. 

John  Clarke,  son  of  the  above,  reached  man- 
hood and  received  his  education  in  .St  John. 
A  baker  by  occupation,  like  his  father,  he  was 
appointed  Flour  Inspector  of  St.  John,  which 
position  he  filled  efificientl\'  for  many  yeius. 
He  mirried  Susannah,  daughtei'  of  Peter  I'arlec, 
of  .Sussex,  N.  H.  .She  was  born  Novemljer  10, 
1S14.  Their  children  were:  Clement  Teck- 
Ikuu,  whose  name  begins  this  sketch  ;  Josephine 
Augusta,  who  is  now  deceased;  I'eter  I'arlee, 
who  resides  in  .Southbridge,  Mass.  ;  I'rances 
Ibiyward;  ()liver  Goldsmith,  who  is  now  de- 
ceased; John  HeiHN',  who  is  associated  in  busi- 
ness with  his  br<ithei-,  Clement  T.  ;  and  Arthur 
Brunswick,  who  is  deceased.  Tlio  father,  John 
Clarke,  died  .November  2S,  iS.Sj.  His  wife 
died  June  I,    1 899. 

('lenient  I'eckliam  Clarke  w.is  brought  up 
and  educateil  in  .St.  John,  his  native  citw  In 
;85i  he  began  to  learn  the  drug  business;  anti 
in  I  Sflo  he  established  bis  present  business  <in 
King  .Stieet,  where  during  tlie  many  \  ears  that 
have  since  elapsed  he  li:is  cariicd  on  a  lucrative 
trade,  and  b\'  honest  methods  and  courteous 
treatment  of  his  patrons  won  the  conridence  of 
all  who  know  him.  He  is  a  director  of  the 
I  loiticullural  .Society  ;nid  .1  waiclen  of  Trinity 
Church 

He  married  August  27,  i.S'(l7.  Anie'ia  C. 
Oulton,  daughter  of  T.  ]■'..  <  lulton,  ol  West- 
nKnland  Point,  Westmorland.  .N.  li.  Mr.  .unl 
Mrs.   C'larke  are   the  parents  of   the   thihhi'n, 


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iKiniul)  ;  ('lenient  Wiilkcr,  wlio  is  in  liis 
father's  omiiloy ;  J'ercy  Arthur,  who  is  en- 
gaged in  tile  insuranee  l)iisines.s;  Harry  Edwin, 
wJH)  is  in  tlie  employ  of  Scliofield  l^rotliers, 
dealers  in  pajier;  John  /Mtred,  who  is  a  com- 
mission n;ereliant  of  St.  John;  and  lulith  M., 
wife  of  I'"..  A.  Scliofield. 

Mr.  Clarke  occujiies  a  [ironiinent  |)ositioi, 
among  the  leading  business  men  of  .St.  John, 
and  he  and  liis  family  move  in  the  best  social 
circles  of  the  citv. 


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"ClDW.XRl)  ClIARI.l'lS  JOM'.S,  manager 
X!!_  iif  'he  I!ank  of  Montreal  at  St.  John 

and  a  citi/en  lionored  for  his  ]nil)lic  spiiit  and 
many  benevolences,  was  born  at  .St.  Ann's, 
near  IMoiitreal.  on  August  21,  1S35,  son  of 
f'.'dward  Thomas  and  Marietta  .Sciphia  I'-lizabetli 
(Forbes)  Jones.  His  paternal  grandfather, 
Thomas  Jones,  removed  to  Canada  in  1783  with 
the  United  ]'jii])ire  Loyalists.  He  engaged  in 
mercantile  business,  and  was  for  many  years 
a  government  inspector,  ICdward  Thomas 
Jones,  who  was  a  nati\e  of  iicdfoid,  (Jue. 
was  a  barrister  b_\'  profession.  His  wife  was 
a  daaghter  of  C.  J.  l-'orbes.  Deputy  Conmiis- 
s:i;y  Ceneral  of  the  liiitish  Army.  She  bore 
him  a  lamilv  of  foui'  sons  and  one  daughter. 

J'ldward  Chai  les,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  th.e  fnst-born  of  these.  He  was  educated 
in  the  Hnner  Canada  College  at  'T<,'roiito,  and 
entered  the  eniplov  of  the  Hank  of  Montreal 
in  i^i.v  in  i.Sdj  lie  was  transferred  to  Hali- 
fax, N  S.,  as  manager  of  the  hranih  of  the 
bank  in  that  place.       There   he   remained   until 


1S74,  when  he  was  transferred  to  liis  iiresent 
jiosition  as  manager  of  the  bank  in  .St.  John. 
This  is  the  largest  financial  institution  in  the 
Province  of  .New  lirunswick,  and  recpiires 
a  man  at  its  head  who  is  possessed  of  keen 
discrimination,  great  skill  in  finance,  and 
sound  judgment.  Under  Mr  Jones's  manage- 
ment the  St.  John  branch  ;ias  increased  the 
scope  of  its  o|)eratiuiis  and  met  with  cnlargetl 
prosperity. 

In  1S6S  he  married  .Mrs.  Wilson,  a  native 
of  Halifa.x.  ( )f  this  union  two  children  have 
been  born,  namely:  lulward  F.,  a  rising  bar- 
rister of  St.  John;  and  Fleanoi"  Alison.  Mr. 
Jones  is  a  member  of  the  .St.  Ceorge  Society. 
livery  progressi\c  m<ivement  finds  in  him  a 
warm  champion,  and  his  ear  is  never  deaf  to 
the  ajipeals  of  charity. 


§AMHS  DUNCAN  DICKINSON,  the 
head  of  the  firm  of  J.  D.  Dickinson  & 
.Sons,  \\'oodst<ick,  N.li.,  was  born  in 
the  ]iarisli  of  W'akefieli!,  N.H.,  January  iS, 
I1S25,  son  of  J(]lin  Dickinson.  He  is  a  gr.ind- 
son  of  Darius  Dickinson,  a  Loyalist,  who  re- 
moved from  Long  Island,  .N.V.,  to  F'rederic- 
toii,  N.li.,  ami  there  subsequently  followed  his 
trade  of  a  tailor  throughout  his  aci've  years. 

Joliii  Duncan  was  born  in  hi  ederi  .ton. 
When  his  school  days  were  over,  he  learned 
the  tailor's  trade  from  his  f.ither.  .\ftei-  his 
father's  death  l-e  went  with  his  widowed 
mother  and  his  brothers  and  sisters  to  the  par- 
ish of  Wakefield,  where  he  eiigagi'd  in  farming 
and  lumbeiiiiii  for  a  number  ol  s'cars.      I  laving 


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tlic  niisl'drtuiie  to  cut  his  knee  wliilo  in  the 
woods,  he  became  a  cripple;  and,  beini,'  unable 
to  continue  lumbering,  he  again  turned  his  at- 
tention to  tailorinf,^  a  trade  whicli  hi;  followed 
during'  iiis  remaining  years.  He  took  (|uitc  an 
interest  in  military  matters  as  a  joung  man, 
and  before  receiving  ihe  injurs  to  his  knee 
was  a  Captain  in  the  militia.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Free  Will  l^aptist  Church.  He 
married  Mrs.  Sarah  Roljinson,  a  dauglitci-  of 
Richard  Tiiomas,  a  Loyalist  from  Penns)'lva- 
nia.  I'liey  liad  four  children,  <if  whom  two 
grew  to  years  of  maturity,  namely :  James 
Duncan,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  and  AFary 
Ann,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-four  years. 
Mrs.  Dickinson  had  four  children  by  her  first 
marriage,  namely:  Ana,  deceased;  George,  de- 
ceased ;  Reuben,  deceased,  formerl)-  of  the 
l)arisb  of  Brighton,  .\.B.  ;  and  .Sarah,  wife  of 
William  Richardson,  also  of  Hrigbton. 

James  Duncan  Dickin.son  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  the  parisli  of  ihighton 
and  of  the  village  of  W'akefieUl.  He  then 
went  Id  learn  tiie  trade  of  a  tanner  at  N'ictoria 
C!orner ;  and  af'er  serving  liis  aiiprenticeship 
he  carried  on  his  riii|)loyei''s  business  on  shares 
for  a  }ear  or  two,  and  in  1850  built  a  tannery 
at  I'jiper  Woodstock.  Four  years  later  he 
sold  out  his  plant,  and,  going  West,  resided 
in  Dodge  County,  Wisconsin,  a  year,  and  then 
spent  two  years  as  hotel-keepe  at  Red  Wing, 
Minn.  ("loing  thence  to  Minneapolis,  Minn., 
he  rented  a  tannery,  which  he  operated  two 
years.  ()n  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War 
he  listened  to  the  urgent  request  of  hi.'-  father 
anil  returned  home.      W  ishing  to  settle   perma- 


nently in  business,  be  formed  a  iiartnershii) 
with  .Samuel  Parsons,  and,  ]Hiichasing  his 
present  tannery,  established  the  fiini  of  Parsons 
&  Dickinson,  which  existed  as  sucii  four  )ears. 
Mr.  Dickinson  then  imrchased  his  ixutner's 
interest,  and  has  since  so  managed  his  opera- 
tions that  he  has  one  of  the  most  extensive 
tanneries  in  this  section  of  Canada.  He  was 
sole  member  of  the  firm  until  1SS9,  when  his 
second  son  was  admitted  into  partnership  and 
the  name  was  changed  to  J.  D.  Dickinson  & 
.Son.  In  i<Sg3  his  youngest  son  was  admitted 
to  the  firm,  which  has  since  been  styled  J.  1). 
Dickinson  &  .Sons.  This  enterprising  firm, 
which  handles  about  twenty-five  thousand 
hides  amuially,  employs  an  a\erage  number  of 
eighteen  men,  and,  in  addition  to  manufactur- 
ing sole  leather,  makes  a  very  line  (|ua]ity  of 
.Spanish  leather  for  the  jobbing  trade. 

Mr.  Dickinson  married  for  liis  first  wife 
Clarissa,  daughter  of  John  Carne\-,  of  Jackson- 
ville, N.  H.  .Siie  bore  him  fiw  children, 
namely:  James  Frederick  ;  Charles  1).;  Anna, 
deceased;  John  F.  ;  and  llveline,  deceased. 
His  second  wife,  Sarah,  the  daughter  of 
I'.lea/.er  I. eland,  has  bmne  him  one  daughter, 
.Alice  L.,  wife  of  Woodbury  Ravmoiul,  of 
Woodstock.  Mr.  Dickinson  and  his  sons  at- 
tend the  .Second  .\dvent  („"lnirih. 

James  l-'rederick  Dickinson,  tiie  eldest  son, 
was  born  ( litober  (J,  1.S51.  Alter  completing 
bis  education  in  the  common  schools  of  Wood- 
stock, be  learned  the  tanner's  trade  with  his 
father,  and  in  i.SdS  learned  the  sbociiKiker's 
trade.  In  1.S75  he  went  to  Peabo(l\-,  Mass.; 
and,  after  there  learning  the  tr:ide  of  a  morocco 


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(Ircsscr,  he  went  to  Lynn,  i\I;iss. ,  where  he  was 
emphiyeil  by  Generai  A.  1'.  Martin,  for  whom 
he  worked  a  \ear.  Returning  then  to  his 
fatlier's  tannery,  lie  began  finishing  mormco 
skins,  earr_\ing  on  this  business  in  (diuRction 
wit!)  tiie  other  nianulaeluies  ol  the  tannery, 
lie  sul)sei|uenlly  assumed  the  management  of 
llie  siioe  store  wliich  his  father  iiad  opened, 
and,  liaving  since  succeeded  to  its  ownership, 
is  now  carrying  on  a  succ-ssful  business  as 
a  siioe  dealer.  He  is  a  nieinher  of  (."arl-'ton 
Lodge,  N'o.  41,  T.  <  >.  (  ).  ]•".  lie  manied 
!•' ranees  I'..,  daugliter  of  .Ste]ilien  L.  I'arsons, 
of  \\'o(jdstock,  and  tliey  have  two  eliildren  — 
Artliur  I.,  and  h'rank  1'. 

diaries  1).  Dickinson,  tlie  second  son,  born 
Janua'v  .,  \SjC),  began  work  in  liis  fatlier's 
tannery  as  soon  as  he  finished  school,  and  in 
1889  became  a  member  of  the  firm.  He  mar- 
ried .Sarah  I,.,  daughter  of  James  K.  .Smith, 
of  Clinton,  ]\Iass.  They  have  si.x  children 
now  livin;;-;  namely,  Clara,  Herbert  I'].,  Roy 
]).,  Helen  1,.,  Florence,  and  Mary  A.  John 
]'".  Dickinson,  the  )(Umgest  son,  born  October 
II,  186^,  was  admitted  into  the  firm  in  1893, 
as  before  mentioned.  He  is  also  managing 
director,  while  his  brother,  Charles  D.,  is 
president,  of  the  Maritime  Wrajiper  Company, 
which  eniplovs  fiom  sixty  to  eighty  hands  in 
the  nianufactuie  (jf  clothing  foi'  women. 


ON.    J.\Mi:S    IlOl.l.N',    of    St.    John, 
X.I!.,    .'-on   of   tlu>    late  James   Holly, 
Sr. ,    of   the   pal  i>h   of    Hiuton,  .Sun- 
bur\-  County,   X.H. ,  was   Imrn   on   Octobci"   24, 


1835.  He  was  educated  in  the  village  school, 
and  acquired  in  his  youth  the  habits  of  indus- 
try and  courtesy  and  the  principles  of  integrity 
which  have  proved  such  valuable  allies  to  him 
in  his  business  career.  His  father  and  mother 
dieil  when  he  was  but  a  boy.  At  the  age  of 
twehe  \ears  he  went  to  St.  John  and  worked  at 
the  lumber  business  with  his  maternal  grand- 
father, John  .S.  Hrown,  being  employed  in  sur- 
veying and  delivering.  I'jitering  into  partner- 
.ship  with  David  Mcl.ellan  in  M;.y,  1867,  he 
carried  on  lumber  business  with  him  until  Mr. 
iMcLellan's  death  in  1894.  In  1895  the  firm 
name  was  changed  to  James  Holly  &  Son. 
Mr.  Holl\-  was  a  director  of  the  S(iuth  J?ay 
]5ooni  Comiian)-  from  1876  to  188 1,  was  ])resi- 
dent  of  the  company  four  year.s,  and  in  1885 
became  proprietor  of  the  booms,  having  pur- 
chased the  stock  and  plant. 

Mr.  Holly  is  a  Liberal  in  jxditics.  He  has 
always  been  warmly  interested  in  all  ([uestions 
of  iiublic  importance,  and  has  taken  an  active 
part  in  public  affairs.  He  was  appointed  in 
1883  a  member  of  the  Legislative  Council  of 
the  Province  of  New  Jinmswick,  and  in  1887 
a  member  of  the  I'rovincial  ]5oard  of  Health. 
He  joined  St.  John's  Lodge,  V.  &  A.  M.,  in 
i8f)9,  and  for  some  time  was  an  active  member 
of  the  ancient  craft,  becoming  a  member  of 
Xew  Hnuiswick  Royal  ,\reli  Cliajjter  in  1871, 
and  later  for  two  years  holding  the  rank  of 
Noble  and  luiiinent  Commander  of  Union  Dc 
Molay  iMicampment,  K.  T.  In  18S3  he  was 
a|)pointcd  b\-  the  Xational  Creat  I'riory  of 
Canada  to  the  oflice  of  Gr.uul  Sub  marshal. 

On    December  31,  1863,  Mi.  Hollv  married 


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Aramantha  A.,  eldest  (laii;;litcr  nl  the  late 
Ale.\ai)(lcr  Harnliill,  I'.sq.,  of  Lancaster,  N.  H. 
This  union  lias  been  blessed  b_\'  the  birth  of 
live  children;  namely,  Jeannette  A.,  Caroline, 
Alexander  H. ,  Henrietta,  and  Murray  McL. 
Jeannette  A.  married  Charles  Swinerton,  of 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  has  one  danj^bter, 
Abbie.  Caroline  married  John  Moore,  of  St. 
John,  and  has  two  children --  Marian  and 
John.  iXlexander  H. ,  who  is  in  comjiany  with 
hi.s  father  in  business,  married  Alice  Moore, 
of  St.  Jolm,  and  ...is  one  child,  Louisa. 
Henrietta  nnnried  Cieorjje  1'" lemming;,  of  St. 
John,  and  has  two  children  —  l^^^y  and  (icr- 
trude.  Mr.  Holly  and  his  family  are  members 
of  the  Church  of  I'jigland  (St.  Luke's). 


^yimAKl)  CL.AKK  RANDALL,  .M.l)., 
J^'  an  active  practitioner  of  Hillsboro, 

X.H.,  has  been  eslablisiicd  in  this  town  the 
past  ten  _\ears,  and  durin,:;'  the  time  has  u<iii 
an  excellent  reputation  for  i)rofessional  knowl- 
edj;e  and  ability.  He  was  born  May  ifi,  1851, 
in  nisford,  \.  S.,  a  son  of  Christopher  Randall. 
His  ^'reat-j;randfather,  I'llisha  Randall,  was 
born,  reared,  and  man  icd  in  Connecticut;  but 
in  1757  he  left  .\ew  I'n^land,  probably  for 
piditical  reasons,  and  settled  in  Annajiolis 
County,  Nova  .Scotia,  where  he  spent  his  re- 
mainin:,^  days.  The  only  further  definite  fact 
in  regard  to  him  is  that  he  was  a  fanner. 

.Samuel  J.  Randall,  the  Doctor's  grandfather, 
was  born  in  Connecticut;  but  from  the  age  of 
five  years  until  bis  death,  when  ninety-five 
years   old,  be    livetl   on   a   farm    in    Annapolis 


County,  Nova  Scotia.  ( )f  his  union  with  a 
Miss  Prince  eleven  chiklren  were  burn,  of 
whom  Christopher  was  the  youngest. 

Christopher  R:mdall  was  born  I'ebruary  5, 
1805,  and  sjient  his  fourscore  years  of  life  on 
the  old  homestead  in  Nova  Scotia,  dying  in 
November,  i.S,S5.  He  followed  the  indepen- 
dent occu])ation  to  which  he  was  bred;  and,  in 
addition  to  cultivating  the  soil  and  raising 
stock,  be  owned  and  operated  a  saw-mill,  car- 
rying on  for  many  \ears  an  extensive  business 
as  a  lumber  niannfacturer.  He  married  IVIa- 
tilda  Gates,  who  was  born  in  Nova  Scotia  in 
1812,  a  daughter  of  John  (jates,  and  died  in 
1 88 1.  They  became  the  parents  of  fourteen 
chiUlren,  of  wiiom  nine  are  living,  as  follows: 
Sarah,  widow  of  .Alfred  Tiiles,  of  Moncton, 
who  has  one  child;  Christiana,  wife  of  Dr. 
l''rank  Oiilton,  of  Dakota,  who  has  two  chil- 
dren—  Kdgar  and  I'rank ;  Harriet,  now  the 
widow  of  Martin  ffhick,  who  married  for  her 
fust  husband  .\llan  Sleeves,  who  <lied,  leaving 
her  one  child,  lulward  ( >.  .Sleeves;  Ruth,  wife 
of  George  Wilson,  01'  Lui/  Mountain,  N'.K., 
who  has  three  children  Wesley,  Matilda, 
ami  Harriet;  .Samuel,  who  maiiied  luinice 
Ilorsenian,  and  has  four  children  Leander. 
Levi,  Linda,  and  ILittie;  Isabel,  wife  of  Hr\er 
Hent ;  Kimball,  who  married  Laura  Trites; 
I'!dw;ird  Clark,  the  subjcit  of  this  brief  sketch; 
George,  who  married  L.Ila  foster;  and  Chris- 
tina, wifi'  of  John  Carl.  Hotb  parents  were 
active  members  of  the  Baptist  iburch,  in  which 
the  father  served  for  a  number  of  years  as 
Deacon. 

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cilucatiiiii  in  Xnv.i  Scotia,  and  afterward  on- 
Icred  the  Medical  I'nivcrsity  "f  New  Vork 
fitv,  from  which  he  ;;raduatcd  in  uSSo.  tdni- 
inji  at  once  to  Ilillsboro,  he  liegan  tiie  ]iractice 
(if  his  pidfession,  in  which  he  has  been  emi- 
nently successful,  and  is  now  recogni/.ed  as  one 
of  the  most  skilful  physicians  of  this  locality, 
lie  is  identified  politically  with  the  Liberal 
|)art\-,  and  is  a  niend)ei'  of  the  Haptisl  church. 

On  December  i,  i,SS,S,  Dr.  Randall  married 
Miss  .Ma.ngie  McClutchy,  of  Ilillsboro,  and  of 
their  four  children  three  are  livinj;;  namely, 
Jessie,  Mary,  and  James  lulward. 


^/TTli.xm 

\^\^     fii-m    o: 


l.l.l.XM  illOM.SOX,  founder  of  the 
if  William  Thomson  &  Co., 
the  welLknown  shi])  owners  and  apjents  of  .St. 
lohn,  X.H.,  was  born  in  Dumfries,  .Scotland, 
in  iiSiT),  son  of  John  Thomson,  who  emigrated 
to  New  Brunswick  in  the  bii,L;- "Jessie.  "  John 
Thomson  and  his  wife,  Jessie,  were  the  jiareiUs 
of  fourteen  children,  seven  of  whom  i;ie\v  to 
maturity.  In  the  old  t-ounlry  John  'i'homson 
was  a  sliij)-ownei';  but  upon  coniinjj;  to  .St. 
John  he  en,L;af;ed  in  mercantile  business  on 
Water  .Street,  which  he  subsetpiently  continueil 
until  his  death  in  1.S4  t. 

William  Thomson  bef;an  his  working  life  as 
clerk  for  Colonel  J.  \'.  'I'hnrger  in  the  lii|uor 
and  tea  business.  In  1.S4S  he  engaged  in 
luisiness  for  himself  as  ship  bidkei-  and  com- 
mission merchant,  and  subsecpiently  owned 
a  number  of  sailing-vessels  which  he  employed 
in  the  carrying  trade  between  foreign  coun- 
tries.     ^Ir.  Thomson  was  presiilent  of  thcCen- 


tuiy  Club  of  St.  John,  president  of  .St. 
Andrew's  .Sociels,  and  during  the  American 
Ci\il  War  was  treasurer  of  the  relief  fund. 
I'or  some  time  he  was  \'ice-Consul  for  .Sweden 
and  Norway.  He  was  married  in  I1S41  to 
I'^lizabeth  Rachael  Scoullai'.  .She  was  born  in 
.St.  John,  N.  H.,  a  daughter  of  James  .Seoullar, 
who  came  to  this  country  from  .Scotland.  Of 
the  seven  childien  born  of  this  union  three  are 
living,  namely:  Robert;  John  Henderson;  and 
Marion,  wife  of  .Allen  O.  Cruckshank.  The 
deceasetl  are:  Annie  Walker,  who  was  the  wife 
of  James  1'.  l\oberts(in  ;  .Alice  Cameron,  wife 
of  .Surgeon  Wade,  of  the  .Sevent_\-eigluli  High- 
landers; George  Greig,  who  died  at  twenty-one 
years  of  age;  and  Andrew. 

In  i.S7oMr.  Thomson  took  into  partnership 
with  himself  William  C  Watson  ;md  his  son, 
Robert  Thomson.  .Six  yc:ns  later  this  copart- 
nershi])  e\])ired  by  limitation  of  time,  where- 
upon Ml".  Thomson  formed  a  new  partnershi]), 
including  himself  and  his  two  sons,  Robert 
and  John.  'The  lirm  name  <if  William  Thom- 
son &  Co.,  which  had  been  adopted  in  I.S70, 
and  mider  which  the  business  has  been  con- 
duited  ever  since,  was  retained.  I'pon  the 
retirement  of  the  elder  Mr.  'Thomson  in  1.SS2, 
the  maiKigement  of  affairs  was  assumed  ihe 
two  sons,  under  whose  diiection  it  has  smce 
grown  to  e\en  greater  jiroport ions.  'This  firm 
has  h;id  built  some  fourteen  ships  and  barcpies, 
three  steel  ships,  and  nine  steel  ocean  steamers. 
'Their  \essels  mav  be  touiui  in  various  ports 
all  over  the  woild.  'Their  steameis  constitute 
whai  is  known  as  the  "Battle  Line,"  being 
nameil  after  the  ancient  Grecian  battles.     'The 


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firm  do  a  lai;;t'  anuiunt  dl  shij)  limkcragc,  and 
charter  more  than  hall  of  tlic  hnj;i'  craft  that 
load  at  the  juirt  of  St.  Jolin.  'I'hcy  arc  agents 
for  tlie  Allan  Stcanishij)  Line,  the  North  (ier- 
inan  Lloyd,  the  llanibiirg-Anierican,  and  the 
Head  Line. 

Ill  i.SjS  Mr.  Tlionisnn  purchased  fifteen 
acres  of  land  on  tiie  old  Westmorland  road, 
and  thereui>on  erected  a  beautiful  residence 
whicii  he  called  'Xithbank."  Here,  until 
about  fi\e  years  |)revious  to  his  death,  he  dis- 
pensed a  j;enerous  hospitalit)',  entertaining 
many  jx'rsous  of  note,  as  well  as  his  more 
intimate  friends  and  business  ac(|uaintances. 
His  death  occurred  at  Asiie\ille,  X.C,  on 
March  3,  iSiji,  al)out  five  years  subsequent  to 
that  of  his  wife.  He  is  buried  at  l-'ern  Hill 
Cemetery.  Mr.  Thomson  was  a  member  of 
tlie  Masonic  fraternity,  and  his  church  fellow- 
ship was  with  the  Presbyterians. 

RiiiiKKr  Thomson,  above  named,  was  born  on 
June  9,  1S42.  After  leaving  school  at  the  age 
of  seventeen,  he  went  to  Liverjiool,  I'jigland, 
and  there  entercil  the  olTice  of  Duncan  &  Ken- 
dall as  junior  clerk.  He  remained  tliere  until 
the  spring  of  i.S6j,  when  he  returneil  to  St. 
John  and  entered  his  fatiier's  office,  where 
he  continued  as  clerk  until  his  admission 
as  partner  in  the  business.  On  October 
20,  1S70,  he  was  married  to  Louisa  .\nne, 
daughter  of  the  Kev.  William  Donald,  ])as- 
tor  of  St.  ^Andrew's  Church.  The  four  chil- 
dren born  of  this  union  are:  \\  iiliam  S.,  who 
died  in  1,^72,  Percy  W.  ;  Mabel  (i.  ;  and 
Mona  C.      .Mr.    Thomson    is    Im]>erial    (lenian 


Consul.  He  is  a  director  in  tlie  bank  of  New 
Ihunswick.  In  religiiuis  faith  he  is  a  Pre.'  y- 
terian. 

jniiN  H.  TiniMSoN,  jimior  paitner  in  the  firm 
of  William  Thomson  &  Co.,  was  born  in  1.S4S. 
IK'  married  in  i.Sj^  l*",lla  X'iidct,  daughter  of 
Wesley  Thompson,  and  is  the  lather  of  two 
chihlren  John  K.  and  Muriel.  Mr.  John  H. 
Thomson  is  \'ice-C"onsul  to  Norway  and  Sweden, 


l.LIAM  1-.  HU.MPHRl'A',  a  prom- 
inent and  well-known  manufacturer 
of  Moniton,  N.P.,  is  a  keen,  progressive  man 
of  business,  who  since  the  death  of  his  father, 
the  late  John  y\.  Humphrey,  has  been  at  the 
heail  of  one  of  the  most  extensive  ivoollen  fac- 
tories in  the  Maritime  Provinces.  He  was  born 
in  Moncton,  Xovemi)er  i,^,  i<S6o,  and  is  of 
T'.ngiish  ancestry. 

His  great-grandfather,  William  Humphrey, 
Sr. ,  a  native  of  North  .\llerton,  \'orKshire, 
ICngland,  emigrated  in  1760,  and  loi-  several 
years  after  coming  to  ihe  PioNinci's  w.is  an  en- 
gineer for  tlu'  Pritisii  goveiimient  in  Halifax, 
N.  S.  He  sujjsequcntly  removed  to  T'almouth, 
N.S. ,  and  there  follnwed  farming  and  liunher- 
ing  until  com|iclle(I  by  failing  health  to  gi\e 
u)>  all  manual  labo,-.  He  reared  (|uite  a  large 
family  of  chihhen  ;  but  his  son,  William,  Jr., 
was  the  mdy  one  to  marry. 

William  Himiiihrev,  Jr.,  was  born  and  bred 
in  l''alm()uth,  N..S. ,  and  as  a  young  man  went  to 
Maccan,  Cundailand  Countv,  \..S,,  where  he 
was  very  )Hdspcrousl\-  engaged  during  his  years 


BIOORAPHrCAL    RKVIKW 


75 


of  activity  in   hiniberinf^,  farming;,  and   spu 


(11- 

latinj;  in  real  estate.  Mncrgctic,  far -seeing', 
and  tlio  iiosscssor  of  niudi  executive  ability,  ho 
nu't  with  f;iiiid  snct'c'ss  in  all  of  his  opcratinns, 
and  bcianu'  a  man  nl  considerable  pronuneiiee 
in  the  comnumity.  His  last  days  were  sjient 
in  Sackville,  N'.H. ,  where  he  died  at  the  age 
(if  threescore  and  ten  years.  The  only  survivor 
(if  the  six  children  burn  of  bis  iniion  with  Mary 
Triniian  is  l^lizabt'lh.  She  is  the  wife  of 
Julward  R.  Hisho]),  of  Tort  William,  \..S.,  by 
whom  she  has  fom-  children — Ihiinphrey, 
Truman,  Oscar,  and  Alice.  Uoth  the  j^iand- 
jiaients  weie  niendiers  of  the  Methodist  clnncb. 

John  A.  Humphrey,  son  of  William  Hum- 
phrey, Jr.,  was  born  December  24,  1.S23,  at 
Maccan,  N'.S.  Until  he  was  about  twenty- 
seven  years  oM  he  lived  principally  with  his 
father,  bavinj;'  ibarj;e  for  the  last  four  or  five 
years  of  a  branch  of  his  father's  business. 
He  came  to  Moncton  in  1S50,  and  purchased 
the  projierty  which  now  bears  his  name. 

In  iSSj  Mr.  Jdhii  A.  llumpbrey,  in  ]iartnei- 
ship  with  the  Messrs.  .Snow  and  his  son,  W'ill- 
i.nn  1".  Humphrey,  commenced  the  manufacture 
of  wo(dlens.  In  1884  the  factory  was  still  fur- 
ther enlarged,  the  power  changed  from  water  to 
steam,  and,  by  means  of  other  impro\emcnts 
added,  its  capacit\'  was  increased  tenfold. 
Three  years  later,  more  room  being  required 
for  their  operations,  the  firm  again  enlarged  its 
lilant,  doubling  its  capacity,  and,  after  ailding 
the  latest  imjiroved  machinery,  bad  the  most 
complete  and  best  ecpiipjied  two-set  mills  in 
Canada.  In  1888  the  Messrs.  Humphrey  pur- 
chased   the    interest    of    their   partners    in   the 


concern,   and    under   the    fnni    name    o 
Humph 


phrey  6!:   .Son   continued   the   manufacture 


f   J.  A. 
fact  I 


of    tweeds,     unions,     tlamiels,    bomcspim, 
yarns,    using    principally    domestic    W(i( 


and 


\arns. 


he  ]i|,int  lias  snue  heen  incit-ascd  in 
si/e  and  capacil)';  and,  as  a  larger  force  has 
been  employed  in  each  of  its  departments, 
(|inte  a  village  has  grown  up  in  the  district, 
which  is  but  thice  miles  from  the  centre  of 
Moncton.  'ihe  senior  partner  also  owned  antl 
ojierated  a  grist-mill  and  a  saw-mill  in  that 
localit}-,  in  these  employing  a  large  number 
of  hands.  \'er)  active  and  jirogressive,  he  was 
•he  |)rime  mover  in  the  establishment  of 
many  other  business  organizations,  and  for  .sev- 
eral years  was  vice-president  of  the  Moncton 
Water  and  fias  Works  and  the  Moncton  Cotton 
b'actoiy,  and  was  a  director  and  vice-president 
in  the  .Sugar  Refining  ('om|)an)'.  He  also 
served  a  nundier  of  terms  in  the  Provincial 
Parliament.  His  death  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
two  years  (le|)rived  Moncton  of  one  of  its  most 
esteeuK'tl  and  valued  citi/ens.  He  married 
jane,  daughter  (if  M.  .S.  Haiiis,  of  Moncton, 
where  she  still  resides.  They  ri'ared  four 
children,  namely:  .Sarah,  who  is  the  wife  of 
I..  I).  I.ockhart,  of  Moncton,  and  has  two  cliil- 
dr(.'n  1  lunipluc)' and  Mar\  ;  Jane,  inmiarried; 
William  I'.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  and 
Mar)',  lumiairied. 

William  I'.  Hum|ihrey  was  educated  at 
Mount  .\llison  University,  .Sackville,  N.  H.  ; 
and  very  soon  after  lea\ing  school,  in  i88j,  as 
above  stated,  he  entered  into  busiricss  with  his 
father,  whose  death  terminated  the  |iartnershi|i. 
Since  that  time  Mr.  Humphrey  has  carried  on 


76 


BIOCRAI'IIICAI,    RKVIKW 


1! 


|j( 


■iliinc  tlic  varimi>  c'iit(.Ti)iiM.'s  in  wliiih  lie  ;mil 
his  fatlier  woic  iiitt'icstcd,  ami  lias  tlic  entire 
iiiiitriil  lit  all  tlu'  niillinj;  plants,  imlndini;  the 
woollen  factory,  the  saw-mill,  and  llu'  j,'ri>t- 
niill.  llavini;-  inherited  in  a  lai^e  nieasme 
the  pi.u'tieal  ability  and  lUree  ot  eh.naetei  that 
ilistinj;insheil  hi-,  lather,  lu'  has  nut  with  signal 
snei'ess  as  a  manager,  and  iu-enpie>  a  linn  posi- 
tion anionj;'  the  leading  liti/ens  ol  the  eity. 
lie  is  a  Conservative  in  polilits,  and  in  I  Siji; 
was  elected  to  the  I'ldvineial  rarlianient.  lie 
is  a  nieinher  ot  Keith  I.odj^e,  1'.  &  .\.  M.,  ol 
MoiU'ton,  and  an  adheient  o|  the  Methodi>t 
I  l-,nreh. 

Ml.   llinnphiev  anti    Hessie    ]■;.,  dauj;htei-   ol 
Warren  W'alhue.  ol  Moneton,  were  married    in 
.\piil,    1.S85  ;  anil    thev    ha\e   lonr   ehildri'n 
William  M.,  liessie,    |.   Albert,  .nid  Catherine. 


-rp7^''-\-  J<'ll>^  I'UINCl':,  a  venerable  and 
\\\  hij;hl\  respeeted  citi/en  of  Moneton, 
^»^  Weslmorl.unl  County,  X.M.,  was 
for  man\-  \ears  one  of  tlu:  leadini;'  ministers  of 
the'  Methodist  denoniination,  and  was  \ery  ac- 
tive in  advancing;  the  reli,i;ious  interests  of  the 
l'ro\inces.  On  account  of  ph_\'sical  inhrmi- 
ties.  he  has  not  been  settled  over  any  parish 
for  the  |)ast  twentv  years,  but  has  resided  as  a 
supenuniierar\  di\ine  in  .Moneton,  the  town  in 
which  he  was  boiii  on  June  1  1,    iSjo. 

lie  is  of  excellent  Mni^lish  ancestry,  beinj;  a 
direct  descendant  in  the  eij;hth  j;eneralion  of 
the  Rev.  John  I'liiue,  an  Oxford  f;raduate, 
who  in  the  eaily  part  of  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury was  rector  of  the  church  in  I'^ast   Stafford, 


Herkshire  Count\',  l''.n^land,  and  who  married 
the  (lauj^hter  of  l)r.  Tolberrv,  a  man  oj  much 
proniini'iice.  Tlu'  Rector  and  his  wife  reaied 
four  sons,  the  eldest  of  whom,  John  I'lince, 
Jr.,  after  loncluilini;  his  studies  at  Oxford 
Iniversily,  emigrated  to  Massaduisetts  about 
\(>y-,,  anil  becune  tlu'  Mlder  of  the  chinch  at 
llull.  wheie  he  died  in  lO^d.  lli>  destend- 
ants  ari'  numeroiis. 

Uaac  I'lince,  born  in  \C'^4.  son  o|  l^lder 
John  Prince,  cif  Hull,  was  the  lather  of  Jose|ih, 
bom  in  i(n)4,  who  married  lo|-  his  second  wife 
.Mar\  Townsend,  and  had  a  son  Joseph,  born  in 
lieston  in  I  7J  ^ 

rhi>  set'ond  Joseph,  known  as  the  Rev.  Jo- 
sejih  I'lince,  tlu'  blind  preacher,  was  the  great- 
grandfather of  the  Re\'.  John  I'riiue,  of  Mone- 
ton. His  loss  of  sight  was  the  result  of  a 
serious  illness  whitli  alllicted  him  at  the  age 
of  si.Nteen  years.  He  was  of  a  rel  igious  tem- 
perament ;  and  he  became  a  noted  preacher, 
and  spent  a  large  part  of  his  life  in  Xewburv- 
purt,  Mass.,  where  his  death  occurred  in  1791. 
Hy  his  union  with  Sarah  Carpenter  he  became 
the  father  of  twehe  >ons  and  one  daughter. 
His  son  Thomas  wa--  the  next  in  the  line  of 
descent  now  being  traced. 

Thomas  I'rince  settled  as  a  farmer  in  Xorth 
N'avmouth,  Me.,  and  there  resided  throiighnut 
hi^  active  \ears.  On  retiring  from  agricult- 
ural pursuits  he  icmoNcd  to  Helfast,  .Me., 
where'  his  last  days  were  spent.  He  married 
Hannah  I'riiue,  a  cousin  three  times  removed; 
and  of  their  si.\  children  the  second,  Thomas, 
Jr.,  was  the  father  of  the  Ke\'.  John  I'rince,  of 
Moneton. 


; 


Kl.\.  JUll.N     l'KI.\l.i;, 


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HIOGRAIMIICAL    RKVIKW 


V) 


TlioiiKis  I'riiKi',  Jr.,  was  hn\\\  in  NUrtli  \.\x- 
mouth,  Ml'.,  in  17X4,  iiiul  tlu'ic  ;;ii\v  in  iimu'.s 
c'statf.  In  1S14  ho  i:mio  tn  New  Hiiinswick 
to  ciintiiHic  liis  business  as  a  lunilKT  nianiifact- 
iniT  and  dealor,  ii;,'iitly  thinlvinj;-  so  liuavily 
timbered  a  t(iimli\  aline  |il,ue  tor  bis  opera- 
tions. I'osscssinf;-  nuuli  nalmal  (.■Mlerprise 
and  ability,  he  .sueeceded  in  his  undertakings, 
and  in  iSi.S  further  iiureased  liis  business  by 
operatini;  in  adjaeenl  Kumlies.  I-'or  some 
time  lie  was  also  one  ot  the  lar^;est  j;eneral 
merchants  <it  ibis  section  of  tiie  provinee. 
I'his  line  ol  luisimss  lie  neeessarih'  eanied  on 
to  some  e.Ment  iiy  i)arleriny,  taking  a;;rieult- 
ur.il  |ii-(i(hiets  Irom  tlie  fainu'rs  in  c.\ehan;;e  for 
merchandise.  lie  subsecpunlh  nut  wiili 
heavy  losses,  1nit  until  the  day  of  bis  death 
was  enabled  to  pas  imu'  hundred  cents  on  the 
didlar,  a  '^w\\\  comfort  and  satisfaction  to  oni' 
ol  bis  steiliii};  inte-rity.  .\  man  of  strict l_\' 
tcmiierate  habits,  be  took  an  active  part  in  the 
early  movements  of  reform,  and  in  1S51,  dur- 
inji  the  j;ieat  tempeiance  agitation,  threw  out 
all  intoxicants  that  be  bad  in  slock  and  dis- 
continued foies'er  tlie  sale  of  li(pioi-.  .Soon 
after  the  organization  of  the  b'irst  li.qilist 
C'hurch  at  "the  Hend  "  in  i.SjS,  he  united 
with  it,  and  was  sboitl\'  chosen  Deacon,  an 
office  which  he  tilled  until  tlu'  close  of  his  lile, 
on  Xovend)cr  JO,  1S51.  lie  was  held  in  the 
bij;hcst  esteem  as  a  man  and  a.s  a  citi/en;  and 
at  his  funeral,  which  was  atltaulcd  by  a  largo 
number  of  sorrowing  friends,  the  ministers  of 
the  different  denominations  iu  the  community 
at  their  own  reciuest  acted  as  pal  I -bearers. 
His   first    wife,    Marion    .Steevcs,    died    \oimg, 


k 


tl 


iree  cbildri'u,  none  o|   whom   sinvne. 


\\\  his  seeoiK 


1  witV 


.Sarah 


Lewi 


bad 


nine 


:bib 


it     whom    these    three- 


William  1..,    lobii,  and  lames. 


The  Rev. 

d 


111  rriiu:e  ac(|Uired  bis  element 


irv  I'ducatiou  111 


M( 


iiutoli,  and   studied    |i 


II"  the 


niinistr\    under    the    instruction    o|    tbc    Rev. 


\V.     Wilso 


II 


e    also    attended    tlu 


Haptist 


Seminary  at  I'redericton,  then  under  the  charge 


of    the    N'- 
Charles     T 


V.      JM 

upper. 


edcrick 


M 


lies    and    tin 


Rev. 


In     1X46, 


ibiU 


vet     the 


Uritisb    Conference    controlled    the    Methodist 
affairs  of  these  Provinces,  he  was  appointed  to 


the  r 


IIWIKI 


I  Circuit,  Trince  I'ldward  Island 


alter  a  probation  of   four   vears  was  ordained  as 


\\'esle\an    minister    in    the 


Church  at  St. 


Centenarv 


ui,  \.  li.      .Since  that  time  be 


had 


charLie  ol 


circuits   111    iIk 


lovniccs,    UK 


if  the  most  important 
hiding  those   of 


.St.    |obn's  and   Carbouear,   Newfoundl.uul. 


In 


1874    Ml 


bad  the  honor  of  being  chosen 


as  a  delegate  to  the  first  (ieneral  Conference 
held  in  the  Metropolitan  Cluirib.  Toronto, 
under  the  presidency  of  the  late  Rev.  ligertmi 
R}erson,  1).  1).  He  was  afterward  chairman 
of  the  District  Conference,  and  then  served  as 
financial  secretary  of  the  Conference  of  New 
Hnmswick  ami  Prince  I'ldward  Island,  of 
which  be  was  elected  president  in  I  Sj-.  In 
1S79  be  was  forced  through  ill  health  to  retire 
from  active  |iastoral  work;  but  bis  influonco 
for  good  as  an  u|>righl,  honest  man  and  a  true 
Christian  abides  iu  the  comnuinity  in  which  he 
resitles,  and  extends  far  out  into  the  world 
around  him. 

In  1S50  Mr.   Prince  married  Ann  J.,  daiigh- 


w 


11 


■nl 


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niOGRAPHICAL   REVIEW 


tcr  (if  the  laiJ  Thomas  iMiibiec,  of  Amherst, 
N.S  She  died  .May  S,  1SS9,  li.-a\iiiy  two 
<lati;;htcrs — •Harriet  .\.  anil  Sarah  !•"..,  twins. 
Tiiu  fdriiier  is  llu'  wife  nf  (ic(ir,L;r  11.  liaines, 
(if  .Sussex  Vale,  \.H.  ;  ami  the  latter  mariied 
John  \V.  Hickman,  a  well-kndwn  barrister  (if 
Amherst,  \..S.  Mr.  I'li.i'.-i;  .-.jl)se(|uently  mar- 
ried ?\!r.s.  C'yntliia  Wdml,  widdw  df  the  late 
AFarinei'  Wood,  nf  .Sackville,  N',1!.,  fathei-  df 
.Senatdr  Wddd,  cf  .Sackville. 

I\Ir.  I'rince  is  an  uncle  df  I'rdfessdr  Simnn 
.Xe.vedmh,  of  Washinytdn,  !).(.'.,  the  wiuid- 
fanidMS  astnindiaer.  fdi'  some  time  superintend- 
ent of  the  I'nited  .States  Nautical  Almanac, 
whiise  daughter,  .Anita  Mctiei.',  M.D.,  is  iV.r 
wile  (if  I'rofessdr  Mcdee,  diie  n\  th(.'  leading 
scientists  in  the  United  Sta'es,  dccujiNiny  a 
hij,h  |i(isitidn  (in  the  j^dvei  nment  f;e(il(i:;ical 
statf.  Mrs.  Mctiee,  who  is  a  hulv  df  hif;li 
scientific  and  professidiial  attainments,  vvas  the 
first  woman  appointed  (in  the  medical  staff  of 
the  I'nited  States  .\av_\',  and  is  Udw  in  charL;e 
(if  the  medical  staff  Cdmiect(.'d  with  the  \av,il 
Xiuse  Service  of  the  United  Stati's. 


I'"dwin     Kctchum,    his    father,    was    born 


I  Zl'lK  !!•;!.  I^ARI.dW  Ki".  I  il  1  U.M.  sec- 
retary and  mapaLier  ol  the  l.awtdo 
.Saw  Company  of  St.  John  and  a  hiL;!dy  re- 
spectcil  citizen  of  that  place,  was  horn  there 
on  March  14.  1831,  his  parents  hcini;  lOlwin 
and  Mar-aret  A.  (I.eavitt^  Ketchum.  II  :  is 
a  great-grandsoii  of  Jonathan  Ketclium,  oi'e  c, 
the  English  l.dvalists  u o  came  to  .New 
I'runswick  ,.i  17S3.  ll's  Lirandfatiicr  Isaac 
resi'jed  in  Hampton,  Kings  County:  and  there 


I  i;;or). 

j        Jldwin    Ketchuu)    passed   his   ca.rly   boyhood 
"  ii.    Kings   County,    but   beture   reaching   man- 
j  iiood  came  to  .St.  John  and  entered  the  emjdoy 
I  (.f  !■!.   iiarlow  &  .Sons.      ( )f  this  fi'in   he  subse- 
cpien'ly  became  a  |  artner.  the  name  of  ^he  firm 
!  then  becoming  liarlow  K'  Ketchun,.      They  did 
a    successfiii    mercantile   business   for    sceral 
j  years.      Mi,    ICdwin    Ketchum    was   associated 
I  subseipiently  witli  Thomas   I.eavitt,  "iider  the 
tirm  name  of  Thoni.i.i  i.eavitt  &  Co..  ;ind  later 
.v'ith   Mr.    Cliarles   Adams,    firm   name   Adams 
iSi.  Keti  hum,  in  the  shipjiing  and  trading  busi- 
ness with  the  West  Indies  and  in  the  building 
n\   ships.      After  Mr.    Adams's  death   he  con- 
tinued the  business  with  gre.it  success  until   a 
shoiL    time   previous   to   his   own    death.      He 
'  and  his  wife  were  the  parents  of  the  following- 
[  named   si.x  children  who  grew  to  maturity  — 
I'lzekicl    Lirlow,    b'rancis   I'^dwin,   Jane,    Mar- 
g.iret,    Charlotte,    and    JiU^ies.       A    (hnighter, 
Julia,    died    mi    mfancv,    aiul     I'rancis    I'^dwin 
died  in  ("..Hfornia  in  i.sSi.      Jane  married  first 
John   McArthur,  and    for  her   second   husband 
a  Mr.  Hrown.      .She  now  resides   in    .San  I'ran- 
cisco,  Cal.      Margaret  is  the  wife  df  Jdhii    II. 
I'arks.      Charlotte   is    the   wife    of    Dr.    J.    K. 
(iril'fith,    of    lioston.       lames    died    of    chdlera 
during    the    epidemic    oi    1S54.      Mr.     lulwin 
Ketchum  served  in  the  militia  in   the  African 
(.    'OS  as   a    CdinmissidiK.'d   (il'fieer.      His  death 
occurred    in    September,   iS;i.      His  wife  sur- 
vived   iiiin    ne.irly    thirty   years,    and    died    in 
.March,   i.SSr. 

In  iS'46  lizekiel    H.  Ketchum   began  a  sea- 


I 


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i 


BICKiRAI'IIICAL    RKVIKW 


8i 


faring  life  by  listiii';-  ;is  i.nprcntiLX'  with  John 
Wisliart  on  a  trip  to  London.  He  subse- 
quently saileci  round  the  North  Atlantic  and 
as  far  south  as  the  West  Indies,  being  en- 
gaged in  trade  with  the  islanders;  and  in  1.S50 
he  became  master  of  the  "Roscoe,"  which 
sailed  to  Liverpool.  In  t8s4,  after  about 
eight  years  spent  on  the  water,  he  settled  in 
St.  John  and  opened  a  general  business. 
Going  four  years  later  to  the  y\lbort  Mine, 
Albert  County,  New  Brunswick,  he  took 
charge  of  the  books  and  of  shipping  the  coal, 
and  in  1876  wa.-.  jironioted  to  be  manager  of 
the  mine.  In  iSSi,  the  mine  having  worked 
out,  Mr.  Ketcliuni  returned  to  .Si.  John,  and 
began  working  in  liic  cotloii-mills  at  C'nurtcnay 
Hay.  I'ive  years  later  he  engageil  in  the  lime 
business  on  the  Na'-rows,  .St.  John  River. 
,\baniloning  that  enterprise  some  three  years 
later,  he  was  appointed  I  iciuidatnr  for  the 
I'rovincial  Muilding  .Society,  in  which  cajiac- 
ity  he  wound  up  the  business  of  tlu'  society. 
Subsequent  to  that  and  since  iScjj  he  has 
l)cen  engaged  in  his  present  position  as  sec- 
ret.Try  and  manager  of  lIic  l.awlon  Saw  Com- 
pany. While  at  llillsboro,  .Albert  (,!ouuty, 
N.H.,  he  was  interestnl  to  some  ixtcnt  in 
ship-buililing. 

Mr.  Ketchum  was  'iiarricl  in  1S55  to  Miss 
Aiuiie  Guthrie  Uarr,  ;i.  native  of  St.  '  ihn  and 
a  daughter  of  William  llarr,  merclKuil.  her 
father  being  of  .Scotch  ancestry.  ( )f  the  si.\ 
children  born  of  this  union  three  reached  ma- 
tmity,  namely:  i'rancis  lidwin,  who  is  at 
present  employed  in  the  postal  service  of  the 
iJiiininion;     Margaret     Annie,     the     wile    of 


.\rcher    C.     I'uddington,    of    New    York;    and 
-Alice,  who  resides  with  her  parents. 


\CA;/ILL!A.M  !■:.  R.XYMOND.  one  of 
the  pro|)iietors  of  the  Royal  Hotel, 
St.  Jolm,  was  born  in  ilampton.  N.15. ,  March 
_'7,  1S50,  son  of  James  W'oolse)  and  Frances 
I'.lizabeth  (de  Mill)  Raymond.  He  is  a  de- 
scendant of  Loyalists  on  both  sides:  and  the 
(Irst  of  his  ixUernr.l  anc  ry  to  settle  in  New 
Hrunswick  was  his  great-grandfathei',  .Stent 
Ra\-mond,  s(ni  of  James  and  Jemima  Ray- 
mond. .Stent  Raymond  left  i);irien.  Conn., 
in  17S4,  accompanied  bv  his  hrotheis.  White 
and  I'homas,  and  his  oiisin,  .Samuel  Rice 
Raymond.  i  le  fuially  settled  upon  a  farm  in 
Hampton,  N.  1?,  where  he  ri"-ided  for  the  rest 
of  his  life,  and  died  in  i.Sj.s.  His  children 
were.  James;  ('harlotte,  who  married  John 
.McCroady,  l^stp  ;  Marv.  who  mairied  for  hir 
first  husband  J.imes^^niith  and  for  her  second 
Muses  I'.nnis:  Henry,  who  dieil  young;  Lliz- 
abeth,  wlm  married  John  Patterson;  ll.uinah, 
who  married  Ralph  C"olpitt;  Sarah,  who  mar- 
ried George  Gorham :  1'" ranees,  who  became 
the  wife  of  Humbert  i'owlei,  and  died  in 
1SS5,  aged  nearly  eighty-si.\  )ears;  and 
Charles,  wlio  was  born  July  10,   1S05. 

James  Raymond,  son  of  .Stent,  was  the  sec- 
ond child  Imrii  in  .St.  John.  He  was  reared 
in  Hampton,  and  the  active  period  of  his  life 
was  s|)ent  in  general  farming.  lie  w.is  four 
times  mairied.  and  by  his  union  with  Deborah 
Morell,  ills  first  wife,  he  had  one  child.  His 
second   wife,  whose   maiden  lunne  w;is  Cjorine 


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I'"(i\vlL'r,  bi)rc  liim  ciniit  children.  His  third 
wife,  wlio  was  before  marrint^e  Tamer 
Springer,  died  without  issue.  (Name  of  fourth 
not  given.)  One  of  his  sons,  James  W'ool- 
sey,  latiier  of  William  K. ,  died  in  1X93. 
Thomas  I'",  was  formerlv  imiprietor  of  the 
Royal  Hotel,  St.  John.  Another  son, 
Thompson  Raymond,  died  in  Toronto,  Ont. 

James  W'oolsey  Raymond  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  agricultural  pursuits  at  an  early  age, 
and  spent  his  active  life  as  a  tiller  of  the  soil. 
He  married  a  daughter  of  Thomas  de  Mill. 
whose  ancestors  came  to  Xew  Krunswick  after 
the  close  of  the  Americar.  Revohitinn.  .She 
became  the  mother  of  six  chihhcn,  namely: 
James  T.  and  John  .S. ,  wlio  are  no  longer  li\-- 
ing;  William  Iv,  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
George,  who  resides  in  Hampton;  Woolsey, 
deceased;  and  Mli/a  11.,  wife  of  I).  McI.. 
Smith. 

William  E.  Raymond  attended  tiie  superior 
schools  in  his  boyhood,  ;in<l  com|)leted  his  ed- 
ucation with  a  business  eourse  at  Kerr's  Com- 
mercial College.  He  was  engaged  in  farming 
until  1S79,  when  lie  came  to  St.  John,  where 
he  lias  since  been  identilied  with  the  Royal 
Hotel,  .\fter  the  death  of  his  uncle,  Thomas 
l'".  Raymond,  which  occurred  in  1.S93,  he  and 
Mr.  Doherty  became  proprietors  of  the  estab- 
lishment which  is  now  the  leading  hotel  in 
the  I'roviiue,  and  stands  high  in  the  estima- 
tion of  tile  tnivelling  public. 

in  icSS5  Mr.  Raymond  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Miss  Annie  .Smith,  daughter  of 
William  M.  .Smith,  who  was  born  in  Irel.uul, 
and  emigrated   with   his  p;irents   when  younv'. 


William  M.  .Smith  was  a  mechanical  engi- 
neer, and  for  many  years  acted  as  Steamboat 
Inspector  at  this  port.  Mrs.  Raymond  is  tlie 
mother  of  four  children;  namely,  William 
Woolsey,  Harolil  Newnhapi,  I.illie  Smith,  and 
Tliomas  Kenneth  Raymond. 

Mr.  l\aynioiid  has  advanced  in  Masonry  to 
the  conimandery,  and  also  belongs  to  the 
Order  of  I'oresters. 


DWARl)  WH.I.ISTON,  lor  many  years 
one  of  tiie  best  known  and  most 
prominent  residents  of  .Newcastle  and  Judge 
of  County  Courts  of  Re..,tigouchc,  Gloucester, 
and  Xorthumberlam'.  mms  !'i.rn  in  15ay  dn  Vin, 
parish  of  Glewell  mow  llaulwick),  N.  15.,  in 
Octoiier,  1812,  I  le  was  a  son  of  John  IJailey 
Williston  and  I'liobe  Stymcst  Williston,  his 
father  being  a  native  of  Riiode  Islaiul,  who 
came  to  New  lirniiswick  with  the  Loyalists  in 
17.S3,  and  settled  at  what  is  now  known  as 
Hardwick.  He  was  educ;ited  at  Newcastle 
under  the  tutorslii]i  of  John  Smith,  and  subse- 
cpiently  studied  l.iw  with  John  Ambroise 
.Street,  of  tii;U  place.  lie  was  an  attorney  in 
1S55,  became  a  barrister  in  iSjj,  and  entered 
u)ion  the  jiractice  nf  his  profession  in  .New- 
castle. A  man  of  recognized  ability  lie  was 
appointed  Clerk  of  the  Peace,  and  was  also 
I'ostiraster  bir  some  time.  In  I.'^S.|,  owing  to 
the  change  of  government,  he  was  dismissed 
from  olTice.  and  Mi'.  Riiliard  Sutton  was  ap- 
]iointed  Deputy  Treasurer  for  the  county  of 
Northinnbcrland.  'I'lie  latter,  standing  for 
re-election,    was,    bowever,    defeated    bv    Mr. 


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Williston.  Appdintwl  Jud.i^e  in  1  sr.^,  Mr. 
Willistoii  served  until  May,  i.SSi,  when  hv 
re.sii;ne(l.  Durini;-  the  .L^ovcrnnient  that 
brought  about  contciicration  ho  was  made  So- 
licitor (icncral,  and  was  returned  at  every 
election  consecutively  from  1H54  to  isr)7. 
His  death  took  place  in  July,  18.S9.  lie 
was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order. 

Mr.  Williston  was  married  in  1845  to 
Miss  Sarah  Jane  Mignowitz,  a  native  of  Hali- 
fax, .\.S.,  and  a  daui,diter  of  Henry  and  .Sarah 
Mignowitz.  Hy  this  marriage  there  were 
twelve  children,  of  v.'honi  eleven  survive; 
namel)',  Ijnma  J.,  illi/abeth  S.,  i'lmily  I'hebe, 
Henry  M.,  b^dward  1'.,  Charles,  i-'rank  S.. 
lledley  V.,  Thomas  .A.,  IClizabeth  W.,  and 
Howard.  The  other  child,  Alice  May,  was 
drowned  at  the  a,i,'e  of  seventeen  years.  The 
mother,  Mrs.  Sarah  J.  Williston,  is  ill  liv- 
ing;, and  retains  her  mental  and  ])hysical  vitjor 
to  a  remarkable  dej^iee. 


•JDW.XRl)  I'.  WILLISTON,  son  of  Ld- 
ward  and  .Sarah  J.  ( Minnowit/,) 
Williston,  was  born  in  Newcastle,  .N.H.,  Oc- 
tober 24,  1S5J.  He  received  his  ,u;eneral 
education  at  the  C!ollegiate  Schoc  I  in  l-'red- 
erictcni  and  the  Lniversity  of  New  liruns- 
wick,  and  subsei|uently  studied  law  with 
.Samuel  Thomson,  of  Newcastle,  and  with 
David  S.  Kerr,  of  .St.  John,  for  two  years. 
Ho  was  admitted  as  attorney  in  June,  1S75, 
and  as  barrister  in  i.S/f).  lieginning  prac- 
tice in  Newcastle,  he  has  since  conducted  a 
good     business     there,     having    occupied     his 


[iresent  office  from  the  first,  a  period  of  nearly 
twenty-five  years.  He  has  been  County 
Auditor  since  1S76,  and  has  served  on  the 
School  Hoard  since  1895, 

Mr.  Williston  was  married  ( )ctober  4, 
iSSt,  to  Miss  l'",lizabeth  lirander,  .1  daughter 
of  the  late  John  Hrander,  a  native  of  .Scot- 
land, who  came  to  New  Hrunswick  about 
18^3.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  ICdward  1'.  Williston 
are  the  jiarents  of  two  children — John  and 
IMay.  .Mr.  Williston  is  ,1  mend)er  of  the 
.Sons  of  Teniperanee. 


\CA^/ 11.1.1  AM  WILSON,  the  poinilar 
Postmaster  of  Chatham,  N.H.,  was 
born  in  Aberdeen,  .Scotland,  in  1848,  his  ])ar- 
ents  being  Alexander  and  Mary  (Gray)  Wil- 
son. His  father,  who  was  a  member  of  the 
Aberdeen  Steam  Navigation  ('om]i.iny,  died 
when  William  was  only  eight  \ears  ohl. 
His  mother  survived,  and  some  years  later 
came  to  this  country,  where  she  remained 
until  her  ileath.  .She  was  a  sister  of  the  late 
.Senator  Muirhcad's  wife. 

Mr.  Wilscm  remained  in  his  native  land 
imtil  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  was 
educated  at  Gordon  College  in  Aberdeen.  At 
the  age  of  eighteen  be  came  to  New  Bruns- 
wick, r.nd  entered  the  emjjloy  of  his  uncle, 
William  .Muirhead,  of  Chatham,  with  whom 
he  remained  for  the  next  nine  years.  At  the 
end  of  that  time  he  engaged  in  mercantile 
business  lOr  himself,  under  the  firm  name  of 
William  Wilson  &  Co.,  conducting  a  green- 
grocery and  provision  business.      This  he  con- 


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tinned  to  carry  on  until  July,  1.S97,  when  he 
assumed  the  duties  of  Iiis  ])resent  position. 
His  administration  as  I'ostniaster  lias  i^iven 
universal  satisfaction.  The  patrons  of  the 
office  have  found  him  jirompt,  re]ial)le,  and 
unfailingly  courteous,  and  the  mail  service 
has  in  many  way:,  been  rendered  more  efficient 
and  of  i^reater  value  to  the  business  com- 
munity. 

Mr.  Wilson  is  a  member  of  *he  Presby- 
terian church  and  a  :;enerous  contributor  to  its 
many  benevolent  and  relii^ious  cnterjirises. 
lie  was  nianied  in  18S4  to  IMiss  Mary  Johns- 
ton, daughter  of  William  Johnston,  of 
Chatham.  'I'liree  children  have  blessed  this 
union;  namely,  Agnes,  \'era,  and  Norman. 


^I'.ONARl)  H.  KNIGHT,  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  J.  &  I..  H.  Knight,  lumber 
manufacturers  and  dealers  of  .St. 
John,  was  born  at  .St.  George,  N.H.,  in  1.S5S, 
son  of  Justice  lulward  and  llaiinah  .S.  (Hrooks) 
Knight. 

Mis  early  ancestors  in  Ann.'rica  were 
I'ennsylvania  (Juakers.  His  internal  grantl- 
father,  Joshua  Knight,  born  in  I'hibidelphia, 
I'a.,  in  1795,  \v"s  a  son  of  Joshua  and  Jane 
(\'einoii)  Knight,  both  natives  of  Philadel- 
phia and  members  of  the  Society  of  I'rieiids. 
It  is  related  of  the  Joshua  Knight  last  men- 
tioned that  during  the  Revolutionary  War 
two  Hritii^h  soldiers  came  to  his  house  when 
he  was  away  and  refpiested  shelter,  v.-,  they 
were  pursued  by  Coloni.il  troops.  Mrs. 
Knight   showed    them    the   way   to   the   attic, 


where    they    hid   themselves.      A    little    later 
1  Mr.  Knight  returned,  and,  before  his  wife  had 
,  had   an   opportunity  of  accpiainting  him   with 
the  fact  of  the  soldiers  being  concealed   in  the 
house,  there  was  a  knock  at  the  dooi-.     Open- 
ing it,  he  found  a  squad  of  Colonial  troops  who 
demanded  the  luiglish  soldiers  who  had  taken 
refuge  there.      Mr.   Knight  replied   that  there 
were  none  within,  but,  the  Americans   insist- 
ing upon  a  search  of  the   house,  the  soldiers 
were    found,    and    Mr.     Knight    was    strongly 
[  censured  and   warned   against  a   repetition   of 
such   an   offense.      Opposeil    by   reason   of   his 
I  religion  to  any  participation    in   military  mat- 
!  tcrs,    this    circumstance     weighed     upon     his 
mind,   and  was   so   annoying  to    him   that   he 
soon  after  removed  with  his  family   to   Penn- 
field,    N.  H. ,    where    he    established    a    home. 
His    children    were:    Joshua,    born    in    179S; 
(lideon,   liorn    in    1796:   .Sarah,  born    in    1798-, 
I'hfcbe,    born    in    1800;   Is;iac,    born    in    1801  : 
Moses,     born     in     1802;      I'riscilla,     born     in 
1804;    I'^dmund,    born    in     1806;     Phcebe    and 
Marion,  twins;   Amy;  and  John. 

Joshua  Knight,  second,  was  a  large  vessel 
owner  and  builder.  He  was  extensively  en- 
gaged in  the  lunibur  industry,  was  largely  in- 
terested in  niercautik  business,  and  also  car- 
ried on  agriculturi;  to  a  considerable  extent. 
He  was  one  of  the  most  proniir.oiit  business 
men  in  New  Urunswick  In  his  day  and  a  man 
of  consider  ihle  lo'al  inlluence.  Like  his 
father,  he  v/as  a  member  of  the  .Society  of 
l""rienils,  and  he  trained  his  family  in  the  re- 
ligious tenets  of  that  society  His  children 
were:  Justice  lulvvard,  father  of  the  suliject  of 


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this  sketch;  (icorf^c  X'cnioii,  who  died  in 
1898;  Amy,  wile  of  the  Rev.  William  Ben- 
nett, of  I'eterhoro,  Ont.  :  and  Susan,  widow  of 
Samuel  G.  Andrews.  Joshua  Knight  died  on 
Februarys,  1851,  ai;ed  til  ty-five  years. 

Justice  lulward  Knii^lit  obtained  under  his 
father'.s  direction  a  j;(iiid  knowledj^e  of  the 
lumber  business,  which  he  eontinued  to  fol- 
low during;'  his  life.  For  a  time  when  a  boy 
be  wiirkeil  in  a  lumber  office  at  St.  (ieorj^e. 
Later  lie  enL;au;ed  in  business  for  himself  at 
St.  Geori^e  and  at  Heaver  Harbor.  .Subse- 
quently he  removed  to  Musquash,  and  pur- 
chased the  mill  at  that  jilace,  which  he  oper- 
ated for  a  number  of  years.  I  le  also  purchaseil 
the  New  Kiver  mills,  which  he  carried  on  in 
connection  with  his  eldest  son;  and  at  the  time 
of  his  death  he  owned  and  operated  the  Lancas- 
ter mills.  He  was  one  of  the  largest  lumber 
manufacturers  and  dealers  in  Xew  lirunswick. 
I'or  man)'  years  he  served  as  Magistrate.  In 
religion  he  adhered  to  the  faith  of  his  ances- 
tors. His  death  occurred  in  18S3,  and  that  of 
his  wife.  Hannah,  who  was  a  n:itivc  of  I",ast- 
])ort,  .Me.,  in  1897.  Their  childien  wt're: 
Charles,  who  was  lost  at  sea;  Hessie,  now 
deceased,  who  was  the  wife  of  lleddle  Hill- 
iard,  of  Oldtown:  Harriett  R.,  a  resident  of 
Hoston,  Mass.  :  Joshua,  who,  in  company 
with  bis  bnither,  Leonard  H. .  purch;ised  his 
father's  business  trom  the  heirs  after  the 
father's  death;  Lucy  A.,  wife  of  Captain 
William  C.  Robertson,  a  mariner;  Leonard 
li  ,  the  direct  subject  of  this  sketch:  bllla  R.. 
wife  of  Charles  Luiigate,  ol  .St.  (leorge; 
Caroline  W.,  who  is  tiie  wife  of  L.  i  >.  .Seelev, 


of  Boston;  I'annie,  the  wife  of  G.  H. 
j  Thomas,  f)f  l.epreaux;  Justice  ]•'..,  a  resident  of 
Hritisb  Cohunbia;  and  Henry  1'.,  now  in  the 
Klondike  region. 

Leonard  H.  Knight,  after  receiving  his  ed- 
ucation at  .Sackville  Academy,  N.H.,  was 
associated  with  bis  father  in  business;  and 
since  the  father's  death  he  and  his  brother 
Joshua,  as  already  narrated,  having  purchased 
the  interests  of  the  other  heirs,  have  carried 
it  on  very  successfully. 

Mr.  Leonard  was  married  in  December, 
1885,  to  Miss  Maria  S.  Haydock,  of  St.  An- 
drews. His  children  are:  Norah  H. ,  Bessie 
H.,  John  .S.  and  Marjorie  (twins),  and  Guy. 

.Mr.  Knight  is  Chief  Game  Commissioner 
of  New  Brunswick.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Knights  of  I'ythias.  Politically,  lie  is  a 
Liberal. 

fS^T^N.  Al.HI'.Rr  r.  DUNN,  .surveyor- 
eneral  of  New  Brunswick,  is  a  na- 
tive of  ihe  city  of  St.  John,  where 
he  resides.  His  paients  were  John  and  Mar- 
tiia  ((iould)  Dunn.  His  paternal  grandfather, 
Robert  Dunn,  who  was  liorn  in  Ireland,  lived 
and  ilied  there. 

John  Dunn  was  born  in  Derry,  Iieland,  in 
1S04,  and  was  but  a  boy  at  the  tiuie  of  his 
father's  <leath.  In  1818  became  to  -St.  John, 
where  his  brother  James  had  previously  lo- 
cated.       Their    mother    lollowed     latei',      ;ind 

jiassed  the  remainder  of  her  life   in    Si.    |ohn, 
1 
i   N.H.      On  arriving  in  this  connlr)-  John  Dunn 

le.uned  the  cabinet-maktr's  trade,  and  later  he 

I  engaged    in   the   manuf.nluie    of    hunber.      He 


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erected  the  first  plaiiing-mill  in  St.  Jdlin, 
and  was  a  large  importer  of  mahogany.  JIc 
followed  thi.s  business  until  1854,  when  he  pur- 
chased a  farm  in  IMusc|uash,  wjiere  he  subse- 
quently engaged  in  farming  during  the  re- 
mainder ot  his  life.  His  wife,  Martha,  was  a 
daughter  of  Charles  Gould,  wIid  eame  fiom 
Somersetshire,  Jingland,  to  Susse.\,  N.H. ,  and 
later  removed  with  his  family  to  Cambridge, 
Mass.  ]Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dunn  were  the  i)arents 
of  the  following-named  children:  Mrs.  S.  J. 
Parkin;  K.  C.  John;  J.  J.  Dunn,  of  Califor- 
nia; Albert  T. ,  Thomas  A.  \V. ,  and  l'"rederici< 
1?.,  of  Musc|uash  ;  and  I'.leanor  T. ,  who  is  tlie 
wife  of  C.  C.  Clinch.  ;\Ir.  John  Dunn  was  a 
member  of  the  Municijial  Council  foi  inan\ 
years.  His  death  occurred  in  1.SS9  at  the  age 
of  eighty-five  years.  His  wife  died  in  1878 
at  the  ago  of  si.\ty-seven  years 

The  Hon.  Albert  T.  Dunn  rereixed  his 
early  education  in  the  schools  of  .St.  John,  and 
completed  it  at  the  Normal  School.  -After 
leaving  school  he  became  Collector  of  Customs 
at  Musciuash,  and  later  served  in  the  Munici- 
jKil  Council  for  several  )ears.  In  1892  and 
again  by  acclamation  in  1895  lie  was  elected 
to  the  Legislature  for  the  county  of  St.  John, 
being  again  returned  by  a  large  majority  at 
the  general  election  of  1898,  and  he  is  still 
serving  his  constituents  to  their  fidl  satisfac- 
tion and  to  his  own  credit.  He  is  also  .Sui- 
veyor-general  anil,  as  such,  member  of  the 
provincial  government,  and  has  charge  of  tim- 
ber lands,  mining,  game,  and  fisheries,  and 
also  of  immigration.  Politically,  he  is  a  Lib- 
eral.     In  religion  he  is  a  Presbyterian. 


IIOMAS  (Wl.libiKT.  ,1  retired  business 
man  (jf  .St.  John,  iN.H.,  where  he  was 
born  in  1820,  son  of  Henry  Gilbert,  a  mer- 
chant of  the  city,  is  a  descendant  of  a  Massa- 
chusetts Loyalist,  (Joloncl  Thomas  Gilbert, 
who  served  in  tlie  liritish  army  in  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  came  to  this  Province  in  1783. 
Colonel  (iilbert,  whose  former  home  was  at 
Assonet,  Mass.,  was  a  son  of  Captain  Na- 
thaniel and  Hannah  (PradionI)  Gilbert.  His 
tatiier  was  a  giandson  of  John  (iijbert,  who 
arrived  in  Dorchester,  .Mass.,  from  Juigland 
alxnit  1630;  and  his  mother  was  a  daughter  of 
.Samuel  HracHord,  of  Duxbury,  Mass.,  and  a 
great-grand-daughter  ol  Governm-  William 
liraihord  of  tlu'  Plymouth  Colony,  the  line 
being:  Governor  William,'  William,'  Sam- 
uel,' Hannah.'  The  maiden  name  of  Colonel 
Gilbert's  wife  was  Mary  Godfrey. 

I'homas  (iilhert,  the  suhicct  of  this  sketch, 
coni])lete(l  his  educ:itioii  under  the  direction 
of  a  private  tutor.  He  began  his  business 
life  in  his  father's  store,  and  after  the  retire- 
ment of  llie  eldiT  (iilhert,  in  1847,  he  engaged 
in  the  shipping  business  in  coin|iany  with  his 
three  brothers  —  lirailforil,  Henry,  :in(l  James 
Gilbert — and  carried  it  on  extensively  imtil 
1S66,  when  he  retired.  Mr.  Thomas  (iilhert 
has  ever  since  been  engaged  in  man;iging  his 
private  affairs.  Hi'  w,is  formerly  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Hank  of  New  Ihunswick,  and  was 
a  mend)er  of  its  Hoard  of  Directors  fcjr  twenty- 
eight  years. 

In  1876  Mr.  (iilbcrt  married  M:irion  l-'ergu- 
son,  of  this  city.  She  is  a  daughter  of 
I'Vancis    I-"er}/uson,   a   native  of   Scothind,  and 


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lor  many  years  the  licul  ot  tlic  firm   ol    Robert 
Kaiikin  &  Co. 


l.IVKR     KUSWI'; 


ARN'OI.D,    a 


representative  citizen  of  Sussex, 
N.  ]{.,  was  horn  at  tlie  Sussex  rectory 
on  May  31,  1.S32,  son  of  tlie  Rev.  Horatio 
Nelson  Arnolil.  1 1  is  early  life  wa.s  spent  at 
the  rectory,  .and  he  was  instructed  by  his 
father.  Upon  the  death  of  liis  father  in  18.^8 
lie  was  sent  to  Kinf^ston,  whei'e  he  attended 
school  for  some  time.  After  compleliiij;  his 
studies,  he  went  to  St.  John  and  secured  em- 
jiloyment  as  clerk  in  the  dru<;  store  of  J.  II. 
Chipman.  IFe  learned  the  business  with  Mr. 
Chipman,  and  then  set  u|)  for  Jiiinself  under 
the  old  Waverley  House,  now  the  \'ictoria 
Hotel.  Tiiere  he  continued  for  a  number  of 
years,  but  the  confinement  affected  Jiis  liealtii, 
and  it  became  necessary  for  liim  to  n'ive  up 
h\y,  business.  lie  tlien  came  to  .Siisse.x,  where 
he  built  his  present  residence  for  (ieneral 
Williams,  and  wiiere  he  has  since  ri'sided. 

.Major  Arnold  was  married  in  .Scptemlier, 
1868,  to  Helen,  daui;hter  of  the  Hon.  b;dvvin 
A.  Vail,  M.I).,  and  is  tlie  father  of  five  chil- 
dren, the  record  heinf^  as  follows:  I')va  Mary, 
who  was  born  in  October,  lS6g;  Re<;inald 
Herbert,  born  in  July,  1S72;  Henry  Medley, 
born  in  July,  \X';i-:  M,ir.i,Mret  (ieorgiana 
Williams,  born  in  September,  1879:  and 
Roswell  \'ail.  born  in  March,  I.S,S6.  Tile 
Major  was  in  active  se;\ice  in  the  militia  for 
a  period  of  over  thirty  years,  and  retired  from 
the  .Seventy-lourth  Regiment  with  his   present 


ranking  title.  He  is  a  member  of  Trinity 
Church  and  one  of  its  earnest  workers.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Liberal. 

Dr.  lulwin  A.  Vail,  the  f.ather  of  Mrs. 
Arnolil,  was  born  in  .Sussex,  and  was  i  son  of 
John  C,  Vail,  who  represLiited  the  county  in 
the  Legislature  for  many  years.  John  C.  Vail 
was  twice  married,  his  fust  wife  being  Char- 
lotte Arnold,  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Oliver 
Arnold,  and  his  second  wife  being  I'Hiza  Will- 
iams, sister  of  General  Williams.  Of  the 
second  marriage  there  was  one  daughter,  Mary 
by  name,  who  died  in  early  childhooil.  Of 
the  first  marriage  there  were  eight  children; 
namely,  Oliver,  Robert  H. ,  Mdwin  A.,  Will- 
iam 15.,  Matilda,  Hotsford,  I>"lizabetli,  and 
John.  Oliver,  the  eldest,  was  for  many  years 
a  merchant  in  .Sussex,  and  from  this  place  re- 
moved to  Urier  Island.  He  ilied  in  Wey- 
mouth, N.  .S.  Robert  li.  was  Sheriff,  and 
resides  at  (jloucester.  William  I?.,  who  now 
resides  in  iMigland,  was  for  many  years  inter- 
ested in  shipping  at  Weymouth,  N. -S.,  and 
was  highly  successful.  He  was  Representa- 
tive in  the  Dominion  Parliament,  and  was 
Minister  of  Militia  under  the  McKenzie 
government.  Matilda  married  Nelson  Ar- 
nold, and  is  since  deceased.  Hotsford,  who 
was  engaged  in  farming,  was  struck  and  killed 
by  lightning  at  Kingston.  IClizabeth  died  in 
1895,  Joiin  \'.  went  to  Australia  shortly  after 
the  gold  fields  were  c'iseovered.  He  died 
there,  anil  was  buried  in  Australian  soil. 

I](lwin  A.  Vail,  ^I.  I).,  was  a  graduate  of 
I'-dinbnrgh  L'niversity,  and  practised  his  pro- 
fession in  Sussex  u[)  to  the  time  of  his  death, 


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ill  i<SSfi.  Ilo  w;is  very  promitu'iU  in  ci\ic 
lil'c,  iind  ri'i)iL'.sciitc(l  the  county  in  the  I  louse 
of  the  Assembly  tor  many  years,  lie  occu- 
pied the  Speaker's  cliair,  and  siihsecpiently  was 
a  member  ol  the  j^overnmont.  lie  married 
Charlotte  Collide,  ol  this  place,  and  siie  bore 
him  four  children  —  Herbert,  William,  Helen 
(Mrs.  Arnold),  and  Alice. 


liK.AllAM  I).  N'l'.R.X.A,  ol  I'redericton, 
Recoider  ol  Deeds  for  \'oik  Count)', 
was  born  in  Douglas,  \.H.,  June  6, 
I1S21.  He  is  a  .son  of  the  late  Henjamin 
A'erxa  and  a  descendant  of  ;hi  early  Dutch 
colonist  who  settled  on  the  Hudson  River.  In 
17S3  his  j^reat-^randfather,  John  \'er\a,  who 
had  remained  loyal  to  the  crown  durinj;  the 
American  Revolution,  settled  in  New  Bruns- 
wick. In  i/SS  John  \'or.\a  purchased  of 
l'"rederick  I).  IVystei'  a  tract  of  land  in  Kcs- 
wiik,  where  he  en,L;a;;fd  in  farming.  His 
death  oicurred  at  the  aj;e  of  eii;ht\  -live  years. 
He  had  a  family  of  ei^ht  children;  and  his 
sons  were:  Abraham,  Daniel,  John,  Isaac,  and 
J.uiies  \'er.\a. 

.\braliain  Ver.\a,  the  grandfather  of  Abia- 
ham  D. ,  was  born  in  New  York,  and  accom- 
panied his  parents  to  New  Brunswick  when  he 
was  ten  years  old.  He  became  a  well-to-do 
f.irnier  and  lundicrman,  and  for  man_\'  years  was 
pioniinent  amonj;  the  business  men  of  this  lo- 
cality. He  was  commissioned  an  luisign  in 
the  militia,  under  I'oloncl  John  .Allen,  was 
promoted  to  the  lank  of  Major  when  he  was 
fiftv-live    \ears    old,    and    ser\ed    as    such    for 


thirt)-  years.  He  w.is  the  father  of  tifteen 
children,  namely:  l):uiicl,  who  served  as  a 
l.ieiiten;u)t  in  the  militia;  Ruth;  Benj:unin; 
John,  who  served  as  a  Captain;  Jon;ithan; 
Isaac  .Allen;  Michael;  W'ellinnton ;  Cath- 
erine; .Abraham;  J",li/;d)etb  .Skeltiui;  .S;mi- 
uel ;  I'atience;  Barb:na;  and  Moses  \'er.\;i. 
.Abraham  ^'er.\a  g;ive  to  each  of  his  sons  ;i 
farm. 

Benjamin  \'er\a,  .Abiaham  D.  Verxa's 
fathei',  engaged  in  farming  and  lumbeiing, 
and  acted  as  a  Justice  of  the  I'eai'e  foi'  thirty- 
five  years.  He  lesided  in  Jioston,  where  he 
died  just  previous  to  bis  eighty-seventh  birth- 
day. The  \'er.\as  were  members  of  the  Church 
of  Mngland,  but  he  united  with  tlie  B.iptist 
church.  Benjamin  \'erxa's  fust  wife  was  a 
daughter  of  Jonathan  .Sisson,  a  Loyalist,  who 
cauK'  to  New  Biunswick  after  the  Revolution- 
ary War;  and  he  married  for  his  second  wile 
a  Mrs.  Jewett,  born  Neeilhani.  ( )i  his  lirst 
niarri;ige  were  born  nine  cbildicn,  namely: 
Abraham  D. ,  the  sidiject  of  this  sketch;  Jon;i- 
than;  Joseph;  Benjamin;  Daniel;  Chesle\  ; 
Abigail,  v.ho  died  \'oung;  .Abbie;  and  Je- 
niiuKi.  B_\-  his  second  marriage  he  had  three 
children,  one  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  The 
others  are:  Henry  1).,  of  the  well-known  Bos- 
t(Ui  grocery  firm  of  Cobb,  Bates  &  \'erxa  ;  anil 
Julward. 

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of  his  education  at  the  log  school-house  in 
Douglas,  where  he  attended  scluxd  initil  he 
was  ten  years  old,  and  woiked  upon  his  father's 
farm  until  be  was  seventeen.  He  completed 
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tlie  Hn[)tist  Sciiiinaiy  in  Frcdcricton  ;  and  for 
tlie  succeeding  four  years  he  was  employed  as 
a  clerk  in  a  j^eneral  store  kept  by  his  iincle, 
John  ^'er.\a.  Returning  to  the  home  farm, 
he  cultivated  it  for  several  years  in  connection 
with  lumbering.  In  i<S57  he  entered  the  con- 
test for  a  seat  in  the  Trovincial  Parliament  in 
opi)osition  to  the  lion.  Charles  Fisher,  but 
was  defeated  by  thirteen  votes.  He  was  ap- 
pointed Recorder  of  Deeds  in  1865,  and  has 
since  served  with  ability  in  that  j)osition  up  to 
the  ])resent  date. 

On  July  4,  1842,  Mr.  Yerxa  married  Cath- 
ai  ine  J.  Miles,  daughter  of  Cajitain  James 
Miles,  of  IJouglas,  York  County.  .She  became 
the  mother  of  eleven  children,  four  of  whom 
are  li\irig:  -Mfreil  ]•'.,  a  resident  of  Ho.ston; 
Mary  Ikdl,  wife  of  Dr.  Cliff,  of  Ho.ston ;  Cath- 
arine A.,  wife  of  William  T.  McCloud,  of  St. 
John;  and  J*.  Abraham  Yerxa,  a  merchant  in 
Boston.  The  others  were:  IClijah  Miles; 
I'anny  I^lizabeth,  wife  of  Samuel  O.  W'illbur, 
of  Moncton,  N.H.  ;  Charles  I-",.  ;  Gertrude  A.  ; 
Ambrose]'^.,  who  died  in  infancy;  Frederick 
L. ,  who  died  at  the  age  of  two  years;  and 
Frederick.  Mr.  ^'erxa's  (ddest  son,  l*-lijah 
]M.,  graduated  from  Harvard  University  with 
the  degree  of  M.D.,  and  for  a  time  attended 
lectures  at  the  University  of  \ew  Brunswick, 
later  becoming  a  medical  ])ractilioner  in 
■S'ork  County.  lie  married  Harriet  I'-liza- 
beth,  daughter  of  John  lUupee,  of  Douglas, 
and,  dying  in  1867,  at  the  age  of  twenty-five, 
left  one  son,  I'llijah  IV  Yer.va,  w^ho  is  now  an 
assistant  in  the  Registr)'  of  Deeds. 

Mr.    ^'er.\a    is    a    member    of    the    Baptist 


church.  He  resided  in  (jib.son  for  sonic  years, 
or  until  the  death  of  his  wife,  which  occurred 
June  II,  1893;  and  this  event,  together  with 
the  destruction  of  his  house  by  fire,  June  20 
of  the  same  year,  caused  him  to  remove  to  the 
city. 

-f^TKNRY  LAVVRAMCK  STURDEK, 
j"=H  M.A.,  High  Sheiiff  of  the  city  and 
^— ^  county  of  St.  John,  N.H.,  was  born 
in  that  city,  April  11,  1842.  His  parents 
were  Henry  Parker  and  limily  (I.awrance) 
Sturdee,  both  natives  of  England.  Mr. 
Sturdee  was  educated  at  private  schools  in  St. 
John,  at  the  Collegiate  School,  Fredericton, 
N.  H.,  and  at  King's  College  until  and  after  it 
became  the  University  of  New  Brunswick. 
He  matriculated  in  September,  1858,  was 
awarded  the  Douglass  gold  medal  in  June, 
1859,  graduated  Bachelor  of  Arts  in  1861, 
and  Master  of  Arts  in  1863.  He  studied  law 
in  St.  John  with  Messrs.  Gray  &  Kaye,  bar- 
risters, was  admitted  attorney  in  1864,  and 
was  called  to  the  bar  in  1865;  and  he  has 
since  practi.ied  his  profession  in  St.  John. 

He  was  appointed  Referee  in  Equity  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  New  Brunswick  in  1886, 
and  was  appointed  Sheriff  in  April,  1893. 
He  was  elected  Alderman  for  Ward  Four  of 
the  city  of  Portlantl  (now  forming  a  part  of 
St.  John)  in  1883,  1884,  and  1885.  He  was 
also  elected  a  Councillor  of  the  niunicii)ality 
of  St.  John  in  1883,  and  served  five  years  in 
that  ca|)acity.  He  was  chosen  Warden  of  the 
municipality  in  April,  1S84,  and  18S5.  In 
April,    1886,   he  was  elected   Mayor  of    Port- 


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land,  and  was  re-elected  to  the  same  office  by 
acclamation  the  following  year. 

Sheriff  Sturdee  belongs  to  the  Church  of 
I'jigland.  He  has  been  vestry  clerk  and  treas- 
urer of  Trinity  Church,  St.  John,  since  7871, 
and  a  delegate  from  that  church  to  the  .Synod 
of  the  Dioc'.'se  of  Freclericton  since  1890.  He 
is  also  one  of  the  delegates  from  that  diocese 
to  the  Provincial  .Synod  and  to  the  General 
Synod  of  Canada.  He  is  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Madras  .School  in  New  Brunswick, 
having  held  these  offices  since  1877.  He  is 
Past  Worshijifnl  Master  of  Union  Lodge  of 
Portland,  A.  V.  &  A.  M.  ;  a  member  of  the 
New  Brunswick  Royal  Arch  Chapter  and  of 
the  Encampment  of  St.  John,  Knights 
Templar.  He  was  two  years  vice-president 
and  two  years  president  of  the  St.  George's 
Society,  and  is  I,ieutenant  Colonel  of  the 
Third  St.  John  Reserve  Militia. 

Sheriff  Sturdee  was  married  .September  2f), 
1866,  to  Jane  Ag.ies,  daughter  of  the  late 
William  R.  I'raser,  P^sq. ,  M.U. ,  of  luiin- 
burgh,  .Scotland.  His  family  consists  of 
three  sons  and  two  daughters;  namely,  Henry 
Russell,  Edward  Frederick  l.awrance,  Harold 
Edwyn  Carter,  Constance  l^mily  Lawrance, 
and  Gertrude  Agnes  Kingtlon. 


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iLIFFORD  W.  ROBINSON,  ex- 
Mayor  of  Moncton,  N.B.,  was  born 
near  that  city  on  Se|)tember  i, 
1866,  a  son  of  William  J.  and  Margaret 
(Trenholm)  Robinson. 

William  C.  Robinson,  father  of  William  J., 


was  engageil  in  the  pursuit  of  agriculture  in 
Albert  and  Westmoreland  Counties  till  he 
retired  to  the  town  of  Moncton,  where  he 
ended  his  life  of  seventy-four  years.  A  man 
of  integrity,  he  was  highly  esteemed  as  a  citi- 
zen and  as  a  neighbor.  Of  his  union  with 
Margaret  Chapman  four  children  were  born, 
of  whom  two  are  now  living  —  John  T.  and 
Albert  C. 

William  J.  Robinson  was  born  and  brought 
up  in  Albert  County,  New  Brunswick.  P'rom 
the  completion  of  his  education  until  attaining 
his  majority  he  was  employed  in  genen.l  farm- 
ing on  the  parental  homestead.  .Subseepiently 
removing  t(  Moncton,  be  embarked  in  the  real 
estate  business  to  a  large  extent,  and  for  a 
number  of  years  was  among  the  '.'ading  and 
successful  citizens  of  the  place.  He  died  at 
the  age  of  fifty-four  years,  leaving  a  substan- 
tial property.  1  Ic  was  a  Liberal  in  politics, 
and  held  many  offices  of  trust,  including  those 
of  Town  Councillor;  chairman  of  the  .School 
Committee,  a  position  whicii  he  acce])tably 
filled  many  terms;  and  School  Trustee,  an 
office  which  lie  iieUl  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
His  wife,  Margaret,  died  when  siie  was  but 
thirty-seven  years  old.  .She  bore  him  four 
children,  of  whom  Clifford  W'.  and  l'"rank  C. 
are  tlie  only  ones  now  living. 

Clifford  W  .  Robinson  was  educated  in  the 
county  of  Westmoreland,  and  graduated  from 
the  University  at  Sackville,  N.B.,  with  the 
class  of  1886.  The  ensuing  three  years  he 
was  employed  as  a  book-keeper  with  a  .Monc- 
ton firm,  but  resigned  his  position  to  take  up 
the  stu<ly  of    law,  whicii   he  read   with   C.    A. 


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Stccves,  and  with  his  lirothcr,  the  late  A.  I,. 
Robinson.  He  subseiiuently  studied  with 
Messrs.  Haninj;ton  &  Wilson,  leadin;^  barris- 
ters of  St.  John,  N.U. ,  alter  which,  in  1893, 
he  opened  his  present  office  in  Moncton, 
where  he  has  since  foUoweil  his  profession 
with  success.  In  1895  his  fellow-townsmen 
gave  evidence  of  their  aiipreciation  of  his 
ability  and  character  by  electing  him  Town 
Councillor,  a  position  which  he  filled  two 
years.  In  1897  he  was  further  honored  by 
being  elected  by  acclamation  Mayor  of  Monc- 
ton, an  office  whicii  he  filled  to  the  satisfac- 
tion of  all  concerned.  In  p(ditics  he  is  a 
Liberal.  In  June,  1897,  he  was  elected  by 
acclamation  a  member  of  the  Legislative 
Assembly  of  New  Brunswick  for  the  county 
of  VVestniorijland,  and  in  March,  1.S99,  re- 
elected to  the  same  position. 

On  October  2,  1890,  Mr.  Robinson  married 
Annie  M.  Hinson,  of  ]'jii;land.  Mr.  Robin- 
son is  a  member  of  I'rince  Ali)ert  Lodge, 
L  O.  ().  1"".,  of  Moncton,  and  an  adherent  of 
the  ''lethodist  church. 


OX.  C1L\KLI:.S  X.  SKIXNKR, 
(j.  C. ,  e.x-Judge  of  Probate  for  the 
county  of  St.  John,  X.li.,  is  now 
Recorder  for  the  city  of  St.  John,  lie  was 
born  in  .St.  Joim,  March  12,  183:;,  son  of 
Samuel  Skinner,  whose  f.itiier  lainc  Ironi  Xew 
ICngland  to  the  I'mvinces  just  before  the 
breaking  out  of  the  Revolutionary  War. 
Samuel  Skinner  vvas  boin  in  Xova  Scotia 
and   during    his    active    life    was    a    leading 


builder  and  ;ontractor  of  St.  Jf)hn.  Me  mar- 
ried I'hebc  Sherwood,  daughter  of  Robert 
(lolding  anc.  grand-daughter  of  Captain  Gokl- 
ing,  a  Loyalist,  who  commanded  a  company  of 
dragoons  through  the  American  Revolution, 
and  afterward  emigrated  with  his  family  to  the 
Maritime  Provinces. 

Charles  N.  Skinner  leceiveil  his  elementary 
education  in  the  schools  of  St.  John,  and  after 
studying  law  with  Charles  W.  Stockton  was 
admitted  an  attorney  in  1858,  and  in  i860  was 
called  to  the  bar.  He  began  the  practice  of 
his  profession  in  the  city  of  his  birth,  where 
he  has  since  won  an  excellent  reputation  as  a 
keen,  clear-headed  lawyer,  prudent  in  counsel 
and  tlevoted  to  the  interests  of  his  clients. 
I'or  nearly  twoscorc  years  Mr.  Skinner  has 
been  active  in  politics,  antl  from  1861  until 
1868  he  was  a  member  of  the  Legislative 
Assembly.  In  August,  1867,  he  was  ap- 
pointed Solicitor  General,  an  office  which  he 
ably  filled  until  March,  1868,  when  he  was 
made  Judge  of  Probate  for  St.  John  County. 
During  the  same  year  he  was  al.so  ajipointed 
Queen's  Counsel  by  the  jirovincial  govern- 
ment, and  in  1883  was  thus  honored  by  the 
Dominion  Government.  In  1887  Mr.  Skinner, 
who  had  previously  resigned  his  position  as 
Judge,  was  elected  to  the  Dominion  Parlia- 
ment, in  which  he  .served  until  1892.  He 
subsec|uently  resumed  his  position  as  Judge 
of  Probate,  having  been  reappointed  in  June, 
1S9J,  and  served  until  January,  1894,  when  he 
resigned  to  accept  his  present  office  of  City 
Recorder.  For  several  years  he  was  a  member 
of  the  St.  John  City  Council,  and  while  occu- 


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BIOGRAI'HICAL   KEVIKVV 


IM 


1,' 


])ying  that  position  tooi<  advantage  of  every 
opportunity  to  advance  the  welfare  of  the  city 
and  the  interests  of  its  citizens. 

I'raternally,  Mr.  Skinner  is  a  Mason  an  ,  an 
Odd  I'"elliiw;  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Ihiion 
Club  of  St.  Joiin.  Ill  liis  reliyiiius  belief  he 
is  a  Ha])tist,  and  contrii)utes  generously  toward 
the  support  of  that  denomination.  In  June, 
i8g6,  he  received  the  honorary  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Civil  Law  from  King's  College, 
Windsor,  N.S.  On  January  u,  1.S65,  Mr. 
Skinner  married  Mli/a  Jane,  daughter  of  tiie 
late  Daniel  J.  McLaughlin,  of  St.  John,  a 
former  president  of  the  Commercial  ]?ank  of 
New  Brunswick.  I'^ight  children  ha\e  been 
born  of  tliis  union ;  namely,  Anne  J.  (de- 
ceased), Stewart,  Charles,  Crace,  Sherwood, 
(icrtrude,  Harold,  and  Waldo. 


^ttVTNATTHIAS    1L\M^L   who    for  many 
F I  =/     years   was    engaged    in    mercantile 
^  ^>—^  business  in  St.  John  and  vicinity, 

was  born  at  (irand  Hay,  near  Westfield,  Kings 
County,  N.15.,  in  i.-f3C),  son  of  Captain  David 
and  -Sarah  (Hritton)  llamm.  Mis  grandfather 
was  Charles  Ilamm,  a  German,  who  with  his 
wife  emigrated  to  America  previous  to  the 
Revcdutionary  War,  .settling  first  in  Jersey 
City,  N.J.  An  account  of  his  family  will  be 
found  in  a  sketch  of  J.  B.  ILamm,  which  ap- 
pears elsewhere  in  the  Rkvii-.\v. 

David  Hamm,  the  father  of  Matthias,  was 
born  at  Grand  Hay,  Kings  County,  N.H.  He 
followed  general  farming  during  his  active 
years,  and  also  operate<l  a  grist-mil'.      He  was 


accidentally  killed  in  his  mill  in  1882.  His 
wife,  Sarah,  was  a  daughter  of  Captain  Jo- 
seph Hritton.  .She  became  the  mother  of  five 
children,  namely:  James  !•;.  ;  ICIizabeth;  Jo- 
seph H.  ;  David;  and  Matthias,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch. 

Matthias  Hamm  left  home  at  the  age  of 
fifteen,  and,  going  to  Indiantown,  entered  the 
general  store  of  l'hili[)  Nase  as  a  clerk. 
After  continuing  in  that  capacity  for  some 
years  he  was  admitted  to  partnership,  and 
latei-  became  sole  proprietor  of  the  business, 
which  he  carried  on  until  selling  it  back  to 
Mr.  Nase.  l^'or  the  succeeding  seven  years 
he  was  engaged  in  the  flour  and  feed  business 
on  -South  Wharf,  St.  John,  and  then  returning 
to  Indiantown  he  erectetl  what  is  now  known 
as  Court's  Hloek,  where  he  established  him- 
self in  the  grocery  trade.  In  connection  with 
his  mercantile  business  he  became  quite 
largely  interested  in  the  manufacture  of  lum- 
ber at  the  Holt  Mill  on  the  St.  John  River, 
and  in  company  with  G.  Van  Wart  he  built 
the  steamer  ".Star,"  which  was  run  as  a 
passenger  boat  to  and  from  Cole's  Island. 
He  also  invested  in  shipping.  Relinquishing 
the  grocery  business  in  1875,  he  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  lime,  but  subsequently 
went  to  Marsh  Hridge,  where  he  once  more 
turned  his  attention  to  mercantile  pursuits 
and  continued  in  trade  for  the  rest  of  his  life. 

Mr.  Hamm  married  Miss  Cassie  Ketchum, 
daughter  of  James  Ketchum.  of  Carleton, 
N.H.  They  were  the  parents  of  eleven  chil- 
dren, si.\  of  whom  lived  to  maturity,  namely: 
.Minnie;  James   K. ;   I'hilip  N.,  who  was  born 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIKW 


99 


in  St.  John,  N'ovcnihcr  6,  1862;  Rf)bcrt 
Parker,  who  was  l)orn  January  25,  1865; 
Frank  V.,  honi  in  1872;  and  Gt;or;;c  II.,  Ixirn 
in  1880.  Minnie  is  tiic  wife  ot  l-'rank  Ran- 
kine,  of  the  tirni  of  T.  Rankine  &  Sons. 
James  K.  iiamin,  who  succeeded  to  his 
father's  business  at  Marsh  Mridfje,  married 
Jennie  Cochran,  of  Hloomfield,  and  liis  chil- 
dren are:  I'rank,  Mathias,  Mdith,  Harold. 
I'hilip  N.  ilamm  served  an  apprenticesiii])  of 
five  years  at  tlie  l)aker's  trade  with  T.  Ran- 
kine &  Sons,  and  was  in  the  employ  of  the 
well-known  bisc.iit  manufacturers,  Messrs. 
Tluirston  Sc  Hall,  Boston,  for  the  same 
length  of  time.  In  1.S89  he,  in  com|)any  with 
liis  brother,  Robert  I'.,  established  the  biscuit 
manufactory  in  St.  John  carried  on  under  the 
firm  name  of  Ilamm  Ikothers,  anil  has  built 
up  a  good  business.  ( )n  June  iCi.  1885,  he 
married  Margaret  Ma\'  .Siteman,  of  Boston, 
daughter  of  the  late  Captain  .Siteman,  for- 
merly of  Halifax.  He  has  one  son,  Arthur 
M.,  born  I'ebruary  22,  iSSG.  I'liilij)  X. 
Ilamm  belongs  to  the  Canadian  ( )rder  of 
I'"(iresters,  and  is  Ca|)tain  of  the  North  l^Jid 
.Salvage  Corps.  lie  has  been  Vestryman  for 
two  years  of  St.  I.uke"s  Church.  Robert 
Parker  Hamm  was  in  the  livery  business  i)rior 
to  engaging  in  the  manufacture  of  biscuit. 
He  is  one  of  the  progressive  young  men  of  .St. 
John,  and  is  a  Past  Chief  Ranger  of  the  local 
court,  Canadian  Order  of  Foresters.  In  No- 
vember, 188.S,  he  married  Helen  V..  Andrews, 
daughter  of  John  Andrews,  who  for  thirty-five 
years  was  in  the  eni]iloy  of  Price  &  .Shaw, 
carriage  builders  of  this  city,  and  who  ilied  in 


1895.  Robert  P.  Ilamm  is  the  father  of  three 
children:  (ieorge  P.,  boiii  in  November, 
i8go;  Gladys,  born  in  November,  189,?;  and 
P'reeman  Woodman,  born  in  1895.  l'"rank  V. 
Ilamm,  who  has  ac(|uire(l  success  in  mercan- 
tile business,  was  married  in  1895  to  Maud 
C.  Clark,  tianghter  of  Thomas  (Mark,  0,'  .St. 
John.  George  II.  Ilamm  is  an  efficient  book- 
keeper of  this  city. 

Matthias  Ilamm  died  December  8,  18.S9. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Church  of  England, 
and  for  nearly  a  'luarter  of  a  century  a  Vestry- 
man of  St.  Luke's  Church,  St.  John;  anil  be 
took  an  active  interest  in  the  temperance 
cause.        Mrs.     JIamm    died     November     25, 

1892. 

. «.•••.* — — — 

N])RK\V  SMALL  INCIHCS,  for  twenty 
years  Provincial  .Secretary  of  crown 
anils,  was  a  native  of  .Scotland,  and 
was  born  in  the  region  of  the  River  Clyde. 
He  attended  the  cumnKm  and  high  schools, 
and  studied  civil  engineering  in  bis  native 
ciiiMitrw  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  came  to 
I'redericton  for  the  ])iu-pose  of  following  bis 
profession,  and,  entering  the  ser\-ice  of  the 
government,  was  api)ointed  to  a  position  in 
crown  lands  otfice.  He  ably  performed  the 
ies|ionsible  duties  of  chief  draughtsman  for 
a  period  of  twenty  years,  was  then  a|)|)ointed 
secrctar\-  of  the  department,  and  remained  at 
its  head  for  the  same  length  of  lime.  He 
was  for  several  )ears  assistant  clerk  of  the 
IvNceutive  Coiu)cil;  and  bis  public  services 
were  marked  by  a  thorough  tniderstanding  of 
the  business  intrusted  to  his  charge,  his  fidelity 


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til  the   interests  of  the  Province  heinf^  univer- 
sally recognized  and  apjireiiated. 

Mr.  Ini  hes  married  Margaret  Doiigal,  dau;;h- 
ter  of  William  Doiigal,  who  was  connected 
with  Rankins  Wharf  for  many  \ears,  or  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  in  1S.S3.  Mr.  and 
Mis.  Inches  had  .seven  children,  one  of  wiiom 
dird  in  infancy,  one  at  the  age  of  twenty-se\en 
years,  and  five  are  living  Their  two  sons  aie 
both  medical  ])raclitioners.  ( )nc  daughter  he- 
came  the  wife  of  Major  J  lemming,  of  the 
I'ledcricton  Harracks.  Another  married  I'm- 
fessor  l'"letchcr,  of  the  I'uiversity  of  Toronto; 
and  the  third  married  the  Rev.  Milledge 
Walker.  .Mr.  Inches  was  a  meiuher  of  the 
Church  <if  I'jighnul.  1  Ic  dcjiartcd  this  life  on 
the  1st  of  Noveiuber,    1897. 


— «.•••♦ 


NORM.AN  W.  WINSLOW,  barris- 
ter-at-hiw,  Woodstock,  N.H. ,  was  horn 
there,  July  8,  1.S60,  a  son  of  the  late 
John  C.  W'inslow,  for  many  years  a  most  hon- 
ored and  respected  citizen  of  this  town.  He 
is  of  distinguished  stock,  being  lineally  de- 
scended from  Edward  W'inslow,  wh(*  came  to 
America  in  the  "Mayliower, "'  and  was  one  of 
the  early  governors  of  the  Plymouth  colony. 
(See  sketch  of  IC.  Hyron  Winslow  on  another 
|iage  (if  the  Ri,\n.\v  for  further  account  of  an- 
cestry. ) 

John  C.  Winslow,  a  son  of  John  F.  W. 
Winslow,  the  first  .Sheriff  of  Carleton  County, 
was  born  in  Kingswood,  jiarish  nf  Kingsdear, 
near  Fredericton,  May  J4,  i.S2ri.  He  was  of 
pure   Loyalist   parentage,  and  during  his   life 


remained  true  to  the  sentiments  of  his  ances- 
try. He  was  a  great-grandson  of  I'klward 
Winslow,  who  dietl  in  Halifax  a  century  ago, 
and  the  grandson  of  Judge  ICdward  Winslow, 
who  resided  at  Kingswood,  parish  of  Kings- 
dear,  and  who  was  one  of  the  first  Jutlgcs  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  this  I'rovince,  John  C. 
Winslow  studied  law  at  F.'edericton  with  the 
late  Daviil  Shanks  Kerr,  and  subsecpiently  lo- 
cated in  Woodstock,  where  he  was  connected 
in  business  with  different  men,  his  first  part- 
ner after  coming  here  having  been  the  late 
Ivlwin  Jacob,  the  second  James  I\dgar,  and  a 
later  W.  H.  Chandler.  l''or  a  time  he  was 
Lieutenant  in  the  artillery  corps  of  which 
the  Captain  was  James  lulgar,  with  whom  he 
had  a  few  years'  experience  in  the  newspaper 
business,  the  two  men  having  established  the 
.liddidii  in  1865.  In  1872  he  was  ap]iointed 
i'ostmaster  of  Woodstock,  and  on  the  death  of 
the  late  D.  L.  Dibblee  he  was  appointed  Reg- 
istrar of  Probate.  His  death,  in  January, 
i.S()6,  was  a  great  loss,  not  only  to  his  family 
and  special  friends,  but  to  the  entire  commu- 
nity. He  was  most  emphatically  a  large- 
hearted,  manly  man,  (les])ising  any  apjiroach 
to  meanness  or  pettiness  of  coniluct.  He  was 
honest,  candid,  and  liberal,  ever  ready  to  re- 
lieve the  wants  of  the  pooi-,  the  only  limit  to 
his  generosity  being  his  ahility  to  give.  He 
had  a  genial  disjiosition,  and,  though  not  with- 
out faults,  had  nothing  to  conceal,  his  imper- 
fections being  upon  the  surface.  He  married 
Charlotte  1..,  daughter  of  Samuel  ()"l)iinnell, 
of  Amherst,  Deputy  Land  .Survey<H-  of  Cum- 
berland  County,    Nova  .Scotia,   and    they   hatl 


HIOGRAIMIIC.M-    RKVIKW 


of 
Reg- 
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miiui- 
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lour  children:  J.  Norman  \V.  ;  Minnie  <  >.  U. 
Kohert,  of  Montreal,  Canada;  Jessie  K. 
Sjostedt,  of  Montreal,  Canada;  and  Pauline. 

J.  Norman  \V.  Winslow  pursued  his  early 
stuilies  at  the  Lciinoxvilie  (iranunar  School, 
Troviuce  of  (Juebec.  at  Dishop's  College,  and 
at  the  I'niversitv  of  New  Brunswick.  in 
1.S79  he  entered  the  law  office  of  I'rascr,  Wet- 
more  &  Winslow  in  l'*redericton,  and  remained 
witii  that  firm  until  iSSi,  uluii  he  took  a 
course  of  lectures  at  the  Harvard  Law  School. 
Returning  then  to  I'"re(kricton,  he  was  ad- 
mitted as  an  attorney  in  ( )ct()her,  I1SS2,  and 
the  following  month  he  opened  a  law  office  in 
Woodstock.  In  1SS3  he  was  admitted  barris- 
ter, and  lie  has  siiice  built  up  a  very  success- 
ful practice  in  this  vicinity.  He  does  a  solic- 
itor's business,  and  makes  a  specialty  of  con- 
veyancing, in  both  of  which  he  is  skilled.  In 
June,  iiS83,  he  established  an  insurance 
agency  in  Woodstock  in  company  with  his 
father;  and  on  the  death  of  the  latter  he  suc- 
ceeded to  the  entire  business,  which  is  now 
one  of  the  largest  of  the  kind  in  the  town. 

Mr.  Winslow  married  h'lla  (lertrude,  daugh- 
ter of  G.  W.  Van  Wart,  of  whom  a  sketch  ap- 
pears on  another  page  of  this  volume.  They 
have  two  children  —  John  Douglas  and  Maricui 
(icrlrude.  Mr.  Winslow  belongs  to  a  numi)er 
of  the  leading  fraternal  organizations  of 
Woodstock,  including  I'".  iS:  A.  M.,  No.  11, 
of  which  he  is  one  of  the  Trustees;  Ivanhoe 
Lodge,  K.  of  I'.  ;  and  Court  Regina,  I.  ( ).  I", 
i'olitically,  he  is  ehairiium  of  the  Liberal 
Conservative  party  in  CarKton  County.  Hoth 
he  and  his  wife  are  inendiers  of  the  Ciiurch  of 


ICngland,  and  he  is  vestry  clerk  of  the  parish 
cliunii. 


^'JVfUA.lAM  SII.WN,  .M.IM'.,  one  of 
^»'  .St.  John's  rejjresentative  citizens, 
was  born  in  .Siuionds  Parish,  St.  John  County, 
N.  IV,  on  .September  [9,  1S3S,  his  parents 
being  William  and  ICIlen  (West)  Shaw.  His 
father,  who  was  a  native  of  the  north  of  Ire- 
l.md,  emigrated  to  New  Mrnnswick  about  the 
year  i.Sjs,  .uul  liere  engaged  in  agricultural 
pursuits.  His  death  occurred  in  1S39,  and 
that  of  his  wife,  I'Lllen,  in  iS/J,  the  latter 
being  seventy-two  years  of  age.  They  had 
six  children,  four  of  whom  are  living. 

William  Shaw  spent  his  boyhood  days  on 
his  father's  farm,  but  in  1H34  came  to  the 
city,  where  he  worked  at  different  occui)ations 
until  iiS6.S.  He  then  joined  his  brother 
James,  .md  the  two  established  the  baking 
business  which  has  since  been  so  highly  suc- 
cessful. Mr.  Shaw  has  shown  himself  to  be 
an  apt  business  man,  skilful  in  the  handling 
of  his  business  and  in  its  financial  manage- 
ment, iiromjit  in  every  transaction,  and  of  un- 
imiK'aclwble  integrit)-  in  the  conduct  of  all 
his  affairs.  Recognized  as  such  by  his  fellow- 
citizens,  he  has  been  sought  after  as  their  reji- 
resentative  in  the  carrying  on  of  i)ublic  liusi- 
ness  in  various  lines.  b'or  ten  years  he 
served  the  city  in  the  Common  ("ouneil  as 
reiireseiitative  from  Wellington  Waril,  and 
from  the  time  of  the  union  of  .St.  John  and 
Portland  until  he  resi.'jned  his  seat  in  the 
Council  he  was  chairman  of  tin'  Hoard  of  Pub- 
lic Works.      r'rom    1.S90   to  the   ])resent  time 


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HIOdRAI'IlK  AI,    RKVIKW 


Ik-  hns  beon  ;i  meml)cr  dI  tin-  I'rovinci.il  F.Cf^is- 
latiirc.  I''ratcrnally,  bo  is  a  incinl)i.'r  ol  the 
Kni^'hls  ol  I'ythias,  and  lor  some  jcars  he  has 
hcfii  trustee  ol  the  I'Anioiith  Street  Methodist 
Cliureh.  In  addition  to  condiietinj,'  his  ex- 
tensive bakery,  Mr.  Sliaw  has  for  tiie  past  six- 
teen years  earried  on  a  larj^e  larni. 

Mr.  Shaw  was  married  in  1X71  to  Isabella, 
daughter  ol  William  W'ootnn,  of  Loyalist 
(leseent.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  .Shaw  the  hdlow- 
inj^-nanied  children  have  hern  horn:  William 
A.,  who  is  eni;a,Lced  in  business  with  his 
l.ither;  lames  h'rederiiU  ;  I'.dward  IC,  a  clerk; 
Leonard  ]\.  ;  Harry  H.,  who  is  in  his  lather's 
business;  Nellie  W.  ;  Jennie  Isabelle;  and 
Allen  H. 


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§.\Mi;s  M(tiki;("><)K  H.\.\ri'.R,  M.n., 
one  of  the  leadinj;  medical  practitioners 
of  Chatham,  \.  1!..  is  a  native  of  'I'luro, 
N..S. ,  and  \v;is  born  in  1S45,  his  parents  being 
the  Rev.  John  1.  and  Jessie  ((iordon)  J^axter. 
His  father  w;is  a  Scotchman  1)_\'  birth,  and, 
previous  to  comini;  to  Xo\a  .Scotia  in  i.Sji, 
was  settled  in  JJumfriesshiic.  ]lis  motiier 
was  a  (laughter  of  I'eler  (iordon,  who  settled  at 
.St.  Peter's  Hay,  I'rince  Ldward  Island,  her 
native  place.  llcr  father  died  when  she  was 
;in  infant,  and  her  niotlier  subsc(|uenlly  married 
the  Rev.   Dr.   Mc(iregor,  of  I'ictou. 

The  Rev.  John  I.  Baxter  was  a  clergyman  of 
the  rresbytcrian  church.  lie  served  the 
church  in  (Jnslow,  X.S.,  for  lift\ti\e  )ears, 
losing  only  ;i  half-day  in  all  the  time  of  bis 
ministration.  lle;md  bis  wife  were  the  |)ar- 
ents    of    nine    children,    who    grew   to    mature 


years,  three  of  them  being  sons.  They  were 
n;mied  ;is  fcdhiws:  Jiinies  Mcdregor,  Robert 
(iordon,  David  .\.,  LMi/.;!,  Jessie,  M;n\,  Sar:di, 
l'!llen,  and  C;iroline.  Robert  (iordon  was  a 
physician,  and  practised  bis  profession  in 
^^(lncton,  N.n.,  for  twenty  years.  Jle 
died  in  August,  1890.  J)a\id  was  a  dentist, 
resident  in  (Juebec.  I'lli/a  is  the  wife  of 
Hugh  Dunlap,  of  .Stew  iaike,  .\..S.  Jessie  is 
tlu'  wife  of  J.inies  I'raser,  ol  .M.ugaiet  Hay, 
N.  .S.  M.uv  and  .Sarah  reside  in  Ti  uio.  Lllen 
'  is  the  wife  of  Charles  Hart  Haddeck,  of  (jipe 
Hreton.  Caroline  is  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Isaac 
Sin)])Son,  of  Canton,  111.  llu'  Rev.  Mr.  Hax- 
ter  was  ;igent  foi'  the  Maritimt'  Provinces  for 
the  i'rcsl  ,an  Ho;\rd  of  l'ublic;ition  of  I'hil- 
adelphi;i,  I'a.  II is  death  occurred  in  I1S87,  at 
the  age  of  eighty-four  years.  His  wife,  Mrs. 
Jessie  (iordon  Ha.vter,  died  at  llftvfour  )ears 
of  age. 

James  McCiregor  HaxtiT  attended  the  .noiUl 
school  at  Truro,  the  I'resbytirian  Semiiuiry  at 
the  same  pbice,  ,nid  Dalbousic  College  in 
Halifax.  b'rom  the  last  named  institution  he 
went  to  Hoston,  ;uid  studied  mcdii  ine  with  Di". 
l'"oye,  the  City  Coroner,  and  subse(|uent  to  that 
attended  Jefferson  Medical  College,  I'hihidel- 
phi;i,  I'a.,  ;iiid  llarxard  Medical  College.  He 
was  gr;iduated  at  llarxard  Medital  College  in 
1S71,  and  immediatel)-  came  to  Cbath;un, 
which  has  since  been  the  scene  of  bis  profes- 
sional labors.  He  has  ;ni  e\tt'nsi\e  practice 
among  the  best  families  here,  ;Mid  is  looked  up 
to  as  an  aulhoiit\-  l)\-  his  fellow-pbvsicians. 
The  doctor  is  now  serving  as  surgeon-major  of 
the  .Seventv-tbird  Hattaliun  of  Chatham,  having 


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held  tliis  oITr'c  f(ir  tlio  past  eleven  yeiiis.  lie 
is  president  of  the  Natural  ilistory  Society, 
and  takes  an  active  jiait  in  all  its  proceedings. 
Violessjcinally,  he  is  connected  with  the  New 
Hrunswick  Medical  Society,  and  fialernally 
with  the  ;\Iasons  and  tiie  Kni;;hts  of  I'vthias. 


rn>l|()N,  DAVID  M(  LllLLAN  was  born 
in  Portland,  St.  John,  N.15. ,  January 
20,  ifi39.  His  father,  who  was  a 
ship-huikler,  came  from  Dnuiifries,  Scotland; 
and  his  mother,  whose  maiden  name  was  Mary 
Knij^ht,  descc  ided  from  a  (juaker  family  of 
Pennsylvania.  Mr.  Mcl.ellan  was  educated 
at  the  commercial  and  mathematical  school, 
St.  John,  tauf^ht  by  the  late  William  Mills. 
At  an  early  a}j;e  he  gave  his  attention  to  the 
lumber  business,  and  was  for  years  the  senior 
member  of  the  firm  of  McLellan  &  Holly,  one 
of  the  largest  lumber  concerns  in  St.  John, 
whose  operations  handled  fiom  forty  to  si.xty 
thousand  feet  of  rough  lumber  annually. 

Mr.  McIx'Uan  also  took  an  active  interest 
in  the  |)olitical  affairs  of  the  Province.  He 
was  first  elected  to  the  House  of  Assembly  of 
New  Brunswick  at  the  general  election  of 
1S78  for  the  city  and  county  of  .St.  John,  at 
the  head  of  the  pcdl,  and  was  re-elected  at  the 
general  electiiin  of  1882.  The  Hon.  Dr. 
Klder,  a  colleague  in  the  representation  of  the 
city  and  C'  unty  of  St.  John  and  Provincial 
-Secretary  of  the  Province,  died  in  July,  1883. 
Mr.  McLellan  succeeded  Di.  ICider  as  Pro- 
vincial .Secretary,  and  was  sworn  in  a  mcndier 
of  the    IC.xecutive   Council    and   as    Provincial 


.Secietary,  July  28,  1883.  His  acceptance  ot 
office  in  the  government  ot  the  Province 
vacated  his  seat  in  the  Assembly,  and  an  elec- 
tion was  belli  on  August  23,  i8J3,  to  fill  the 
vacancy  caused  by  his  resignation  and  the 
death  of  Dr.  Mlder.  He  was  then  re-elected, 
with  Dr.  A.  A.  Stockton  as  his  colleague,  and 
continued  to  represent  the  city  and  county  of 
St.  John  until  the  geneial  election  of  January, 
1890,  when  he  was  defeated.  In  March, 
1890,  Mr.  Mcl.ellan  resigned  his  ofTice  as 
Provincial  Secretary,  and  was  appointed  to  a 
seat  in  the  I-egislativc  Council,  still  continu- 
ing his  position  as  a  member  of  the  IC.xecutive 
council,  of  which  lie  was  appointed  president, 
and  also  a  member  of  the  Hoard  of  Public 
Works,  until  August,  1891,  when  he  was  aj)- 
pointed  Registrar  of  Deeds  and  Wills  and 
Registrar  of  Probates  for  the  city  and  county 
of  .St.  John.  This  office  he  C(>ntinued  to  hold 
till  his  death,  on  December  19,  1894.  At 
that  time  b.e  was  a  member  both  of  the  Ma- 
sonic order  and  of  the  (  )dd  Fellows,  and  was 
president  of  the  I'nion  Clui),  .St.  John.  In 
relii,ion  he  was  a  Baptist,  attending  tl-,e  (ier- 
main  .Street  Baptist  Church.  In  Dominion 
politics  he  was  a  Liberal,  and  in  the  personal 
relations  of  life  was  a  warm  frieml  and  poinilar 
with  all  having  his  aci|uaintance. 

He  married  December  19.  1865,  I-'annyB., 
daughter  of  the  late  Henry  Richards,  of  St. 
John.  P'our  children  \'\:re  born  of  this  union, 
namely:  Harry  R.,  a  lumber  merchant  of  .St. 
John;  Ida  K.,  wife  of  l-'rederick  J.  Harding, 
agent  of  the  Marine  and  l"'isheiies  Department 
of   Canada  at    St.    John;   J.  Verner,  Registrar 


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of  Deeds  and  Wills  lor  the  city  and  county  of 
St.  John;  -^nd  lulmuiid  1'.,  who  died  in  in- 
fancy. 

J.  Verner  McLellan  was  horn  in  St.  John, 
N.  B.,  Noveinhcr  lo,  1.S68.  lie  was  educated 
in  the  city  schools,  Woodstock  (<  )nt. )  Col- 
lege, and  Kerr's  liusiness  College,  St.  John. 
In  i<S8cS  he  accepted  a  position  in  the  general 
offices  of  the  New  Urnnswici<  Railway  Com- 
pany as  eai  accountant.  In  1.S91  he  was  a])- 
])ointed  iJeinity  Registrar  of  Deeds  and  Wills 
for  the  county  of  St.  John;  and  in  1894,  on 
the  (!  .ith  of  his  father,  the  Hon.  David  Mc- 
Lellan, he  was  appointed  Registrar  of  Deeds 
and  Wills,  which  position  he  at  present  holds. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order  and  of 
the  Knights  of  Fvthias.  On  October  19, 
1897,  he  married  !' lore  nee  Louise,  daughter 
of  RobtTt  ( ).  -Stockton,  a  prominent  barrister 
of  St.  John.  They  have  one  child,  Jarvis 
Oldtield. 


T^Al'TAIN  JOHN  M.  I.I'OI),  .M.IM'.. 
I  J|         a  well-known    capitalist   and   business 

^■^ ^  man    of     Black     River,     N.H.,    was 

born  at  (Greenock,  on  the  Clyde,  .Scotland,  in 
1825.  His  parents  were  Peter  and  Mary  (Mc- 
Curdy)  McLeod,  the  former  of  whom  was  a 
native    of    (ireenoek,    .Scotland,    and    a    ship- 


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moved,  and  in  .St.  John  County,  of  which  he 
remained  a  resident  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  in  1865,  when  he  w,"S  eighty  five 
years  old.  He  was  an  l^lder  in  the  Presby- 
terian church.  His  wife  ilied  in  1862,  at  the 
age  of  si.\ty  years.  She  also  was  a  native  of 
Greenock,  .Scotland.  They  had  seven  chil- 
dren, namely:  Mary,  who  married  John 
.Smith,  and  died  in  Western  Ontario;  John, 
whose  name  appears  at  the  head  of  this  sketch, 
and  of  whom  a  fuller  account  follows;  Angus, 
who  is  now  deceased;  Peter,  Robert,  and 
.Sarah,  wIkj  all  reside  in  .St.  John  County:  and 
Margaret,  who  is  the  wife  of  a  Mr.  Wasson, 
of  Boston,  Mass. 

John  McLeod,  with  whom  this  sketch  is 
more  directly  concerned,  was  reared  ujion  a 
farm.  In  early  rrtanhood  he  engaged  in  fish- 
ing and  limibering,  to  which  occupations  he 
devoted  his  energies  for  many  years.  In 
1862  he  went  to  .Australia,  where  he  sjient  live 
successful  years  in  the  gold  mines.  Return- 
ing home  in  18^7,"  he  built  the  ship  "Brill- 
iant," which  he  sailed  four  years  as  master, 
trading  in  the  West  Indies,  the  L'nited  States, 
and  ICurojje.  Then  giving  up  seafaring,  he 
engaged  in  shipd)uilding  at  Black  River. 
The  last  large  ship  built  in  the  Province  — 
the  "John  McLeod,"  sixteen  hundred  tons  — 
his  !  was  launched  from  his  yard.      Other  fine  speci- 


trade  in  .Scotland 

Peter  McLeod  emigrated  from  his  native 
land  in  1825,  when  his  son  John  was  an  infant, 
and  settled  at  Miramichi,  where  for  a  time  he 
followed  his  trade.  .SubsequeTitly  he  contin- 
ued it  in  .St.  John,  to  which  place   he  had   re- 


mens  of  his  workmanship  were  the  "Hudson" 
and  the  "New  City."  In  all  three  of  these 
he  held  an  interest,  and  he  still  holds 
terest  in  several. 


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In  1892  Ca|)tair  McLeod  was  elected  to  the 


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cideil  by  the  castinj{  vote  of  the  sheriff.  He 
was  re-elected  in  1.S96  without  opposition, 
and  ag:iin  in  1899,  this  time  i)y  a  larj^e  ma- 
jority, lie  was  a  member  of  the  Municipal 
Council  III  Hlack  River  for  twenty-four  years, 
lie  also  served  some  tiine  as  commissioner  of 
the  almshouse,  and  is  still  a  commissioner. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  for  some 
time  president  of  the  St,  Martin  Telephone 
Company,  lie  is  a  member  of  the  St.  An- 
drews .Society. 

Ca|)tain   McLeod   was   married    in    1S70    to 
Miss  .Mary  .Ann  Alward,  of  Kings  County. 


sil^ONTICSQLTKU  McDONALD,  bar- 
rister, St.  John,  was  born  in 
(jueeiis  County,  New  Hrunswick, 
June  13,  1846,  son  of  Thomas  !•'.  and  Susan 
A.  (McDonald)  .McDonald.  His  father  was 
born  in  Oueens  County  in  1815.  His  grand- 
father, David  McDonald,  was  als(^  born  there; 
and  bis  great-grandfather,  Alexander  Mc- 
Donald, who  emigrated  from  .Scotland  to  New 
York  [irior  to  the  American  Revolution,  came 
to  New  ]5runswick  with  other  Loyalists  in 
1783.  David  .McDonald,  who  was  a  farmer, 
married  Jemima  Helyea,  and  had  a  family  of 
ten  children,  five  sons  and  five  daughters,  of 
whom  Thomas  I'.,  was  tiie  eldest. 

Thomas  E.  McDonald  followed  agricultural 
]iursuits  in  Oueens  County  during  his  active 
years,  and  was  a  jirominent  man  in  his  local- 
ity, serving  as  a  Justice  of  the  I'eace.  .Susan 
A.  McDonald,  his  wife,  was  a  native  of  the 
same  county  and  a  daughter  of   Alexander  Mc- 


Donald, second,  a  native  of  Westmoreland 
County.  Her  grandfather  was  Ale.xander  Mc- 
Donald, first,  who  came  direct  from  .Scotland 
to  New  Brunswick.  Alexander  McDonald, 
second,  reared  six  sons  and  one  daughter. 
Thomas  K.  and  .Susan  A.  NfcDonald  were  the 
parents  of  seven  children,  namely:  George  V.., 
who  di"d  in  infancy;  .Alexander  D.,  M.D.  ; 
Montesquieu,  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
luneline,  who  married  David  11.  (rilclirist; 
Jannett  J.,  who  married  James  VV.  Cox;  Jane 
]•].,  wife  of  Henry  .S.  Seely;  and  .Margaret 
A.,  wife  of  John  M.  Wiley.  The  fathei  died 
July  31,  1892,  and  the  mother  died  April  12, 
1868.  Alexander  D.  McDonald,  M.D.,  is  a 
successful  physician  of  Kalispell,  Mmit.,  anil 
has  two  children. 

Montescpiieu  .McDonald  attended  the  com- 
mon and  superior  schools  of  his  native  place, 
and  completed  his  education  at  the  .St.  John 
Commercial  School.  ICntering  the  office  of 
Dr.  .Silas  Alward,  D.(  .1,.,  as  a  student  in 
1866,  be  pursued  his  legal  studies  under  the 
direction  of  that  able  lawyer  for  four  years, 
at  the  ex|)iration  of  which  time  he  was  ad- 
mittetl  an  attorney,  becoming  a  barrister  in 
1871.  A  large  and  varied  practice  of  over 
twenty-five  years'  duration  has  made  him 
widely  and  favorably  known  throughout  the 
Province,  and  he  is  regarded  as  a  lawyer  i)f 
unusvial  ability.  In  1882  he  was  ap])ointed 
Clerk  of  the  St.  John  County  Court,  and  has 
.served  in  that  capacity  continuously  to  the 
present  time. 

In  1875  Mr.  McDonald  was  united  in  mar- 
riage   with     Clara     I..     .Streek,    daughter    of 


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TlioiiKis  M.  Struck,  who  i-air,e  to  tliis  city  Ironi 
London,  lingland,  when  a  young  man.  Seven 
children  have  been  Ixnn  ol  tliis  niiion, 
namely:  William  S.,  who  is  in  tiic  office  with 
his  lather;  Annie  I,.;  Charles  H.  ;  Kenneth 
K.\  Nellie  15.  ;  Jean;  and  Allen  (,'.,  wiio  died 
in  intancy. 

Mr.  McDonald  is  a  member  of  the  (lermain 
Street  Haptist  Church,  ol  which  he  is  a  trus- 
tee, and  was  formerly  president  of  the  Baptist 
lulucational  Society. 


I-:()R(;i':  !•".  smith,  who  for  many 
vears  was  prominently  identified 
with  the  business,  social,  and  political  inter- 
ests of  St.  John,  was  born  in  that  city,  Octo- 
ber 19,  iS^9,  and  died  March  6,  1894.  Me 
was  the  son  of  i'honias  M.  and  Rebecca  (I'ind- 
lay)  Smith  and  grandson  of  Nathan  .Smith, 
M.l).,  a  surgeon  of  one  of  tlic  Loyalist  legi- 
ments,  the  famous  De  l.ancy's  bi'igade,  who 
settled  in  St.  John  in  I7<S3,  received  half-pay, 
and  i)ractised  his  profession  in  that  city  till 
his  decease. 

Thomas  M.  Smith  was  for  many  years  con- 
nected with  the  firm  of  Johnson  iK:  Walker, 
ship-chandlers  and  ship-owners.  lie  later 
transacted  a  large  business  in  the  same  line 
for  himself,  and  was  one  of  the  most  active  men 
of  his  day.  l'"or  sa\ii)g  a  large  amount  of 
specie  which  had  been  sunk  off  the  coast,  he 
was  jiresented  witli  a  gold  watch  by  the 
Cunard  Company.  Jle  was  for  some  years  the 
heaii  of  the  fire  department.  Apart  from  his 
e.\teiisi\x'   business    undertakings,    he    tcuik    a 


lively  interest  in  the  various  institutions  (f 
the  city,  religious,  charitable,  fraternal,  and 
others,  and  was  a  Master  Mason.  Thomas  M. 
Smith  died  in  1867.  He  was  the  father  of 
eight  children;  namely,  John,  Rufiis,  Julia, 
William,  l'',leanor,  George  ]"'.  (the  subject  of 
this  sketch),  lulwin,  and  James.  The  widow 
of  Thomas  M.  Smith  died  in  1877,  aged 
seventy-three  years. 

George  I".  .Smith  acquired  the  |)rimary 
branches  of  his  education  in  .St.  John,  and 
went  from  the  grammar  school  there  to  a  pri- 
vate educational  institution  in  Kingston, 
N.H.  When  a  young  man  he  became  associ- 
ated in  business  with  his  father,  and,  succeed- 
ing to  the  business  after  his  father's  death,  he 
eiilargetl  and  carried  it  on  successfully  for 
many  years.  He  was  an  extensive  ship- 
owner, and  was  one  of  the  first  in  .St.  John  to 
own  steel  and  iron  s!ii[)s.  ills  interest  in  the 
affairs  of  the  city  was  most  beneficial  to  the 
community,  and  the  salary  he  received  during 
his  term  as  Alderman  was  used  to  erect  a 
fountain  in  the  old  ceinctery.  lie  ever  took 
a  deeii  interest  in  militia  matters,  and  as  a 
young  man  was  a  membei-  of  the  ohl  '"Peters' 
Battery."  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
Captain  and  Paymaster  of  the  New  Brunswick 
Brigade  of  Garrison  Artillery,  and  was  one  of 
the  best  loved  officers  of  that  corps,  lie  was 
respected  for  his  high  sense  of  honor  and  abso- 
lute integrity,  as  well  as  beloved  for  his  kind- 
liness anil  charm  of  manner,  antl  his  death 
was  regretted  by  the  citizens  at  large. 

In  October,  1S79,  he  married  Miss  Minnie 
Gordon,  of  Pictou,   .\..S.,  daughter  of  William 


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Gordnn,  who  caiiv-'  to  that  place  Iroin  Scotlaiul 
when  a  younji;  man.  Uesidcs  his  wiilow  he 
left  three  daiij^hters. 

The  late  Mr.  Smith  helonj^ed  to  the  Ma- 
sonic order;  the  I'nioii  Club,  (.1  which  he  was 
one  of  tiie  orj^anizcrs;  the  Neptune  Rowinj;; 
Club;  the  Athletic  Association,  and  other  in- 
stitutions of  a  public  or  social  nature,  and  he 
availed  himself  of  every  opportunity  to  ad- 
vance the  interests  of  his  native  city,  of  which 
he  was  a  most  loyal  son.  He  had  travelled 
extensively  in  both  Europe  and  America,  was 
a  man  of  powerful  physique,  and  took  a  j;reat 
interest  in  athletic  sports.  In  his  religious 
belief  he  was  a  member  of  the  {"luirch  of  I'ji:;- 
land,  and  for  many  years  was  a  Vestryman  of 
the  "Stone  CJhurch,"  in  the  affairs  of  which 
he  took  a  deep  interest  and  leading  part  uj) 
till  the  time  of  his  death. 


^OI.ONHL  JCDWIN  HOXD  HHICR,  a 
leading  citizen  of  Sussex,  N.H. ,  was 
''  born  in  Sussex  on  May  J5,  183.;, 
son  of  Thomas  Heer,  who  was  a  native  of 
Devonshire,  l^ngland.  born  August  18,  1777. 
As  a  boy  of  thirteen  Thomas  Heer  enlisted 
as  a  cadet  in  the  royal  navy,  and  in  time  he 
rose  to  the  rank  of  Commander.  l"'or  many 
years  he  was  in  the  coast  guard,  and  during 
the  war  between  ICngland  and  the  United 
States,  1812-1814,  was  stationed  in  New 
Hrunswick.  Here  he  met  his  wife,  whom  he 
married  in  1S15,  and  who  accompanied  him 
when  he  went  hack  to  luighind  at  the  close 
of    the  war.       ller    maiden    name   was    Annie 


Leonard.  She  was  ixirn  in  -St.  John  on  July 
2Ti,  1796,  .nid  was  a  daughter  of  the  lion. 
George  Leonard,  a  sketch  of  whom  appears  on 
another  page  of  this  work.  In  1839  Tiiomas 
■  lieer  returned  to  America  and  settled  in 
I  .Sussex  on  the  Leonard  grant,  wiiere  he  lived 
until  his  death  at  tiie  age  of  eighty  years. 
Thomas  IJeer  was  an  active  and  devoted  mem- 
ber of  the  Church  of  I'jigland.  lie  was  the 
first  president  of  tiie  Sussex  .Agricultural  So- 
ciety. Mrs.  Annie  L.  I5eer  died  on  (  )ctober 
[,  iSSr).  She  was  the  mother  of  thirteen 
children;  namely,  Lucy  Codncr,  l-lleanor 
James,  Annie  Leonard,  Thomas  More,  Caro- 
line, .Maria  l%li/.abeth,  (ieorge  Leonard,  Lucy 
Maria,  Elizabeth  Lvanson,  I'dwin  Uond, 
Mary,  William  Henderson,  and  Jane  Hope. 

The  first  named  of  these,  Lucy,  was  born  in 
Stoke  Devon,  I'^ngland,  and  died  in  Hourborg 
in  i8:;9.  James,  who  was  born  April  11, 
1818,  at  I''alnioutli,  I'"iigland,  died  in  Sussex, 
N.  H.,on  I""ebruarv  :;o,  1899.  .Annie  Le(niard, 
who  was  born  in  Dock,  l-Jigland,  on  Septem- 
ber IJ,  1819,  is  the  widow  of  the  late  Cajitain 
T.  W.  R.  Like,  formerly  officer  of  the  survey 
ship  "Columbia"  of  the  royal  navy,  and  set- 
j  tied  at  this  station.  Thomas  llore,  who  died 
'.  in  Liverpool,  I'.iigland,  in  18S5,  was  born  on 
.September  29,  1S21,  at  Hroadstairs,  Kent, 
lie  resided  in  Jamaica  for  a  nuiniier  of  years, 
but  in  185,  came  to  Xew  Hrunswick,  ;nul  the 
following  year  returned  to  ICnglaiid  and  en- 
gaged in  business  there.  He  married  Annie 
Hope,  a  native  of  Devonshire,  and  siie  bore 
him  several  children,  wiio  survive  him.  Caro- 
line Heer,  who  was   born  on  June    ] .[,   1SJ3,  at 


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\Vliitslal)lc,  IvLMit,  iMi-hiiul,  married  R.  S. 
Dcvever,  of  St.  John,  and  resides  in  Hrant- 
ford,  ( )nt.  Maria  ICli/abeth  was  born  at 
Foltcestone,  Kent,  on  December  24,  1824,  and 
died  on  Jnly  25,  1825.  Georj^c  Leonard,  who 
was  born  on  May  23,  1826,  at  IMiddle  Deal, 
ilied  at  sea.  He  was  in  the  royal  navy  lor 
some  years,  hut  subsequently  left  the  service 
and  went  into  the  China  trade.  Lucy  Maria, 
who  resides  in  luifxland,  was  born  in  I'rance 
on  August  26,  1829.  She  is  the  wife  of  Cap- 
tain I'rederick  Ilarvy  of  the  British  navy. 
I'^li/.abeth  ICvanson  was  born  at  Susse.x  Vale 
on  Anji;ust  3,  1831,  and  died  at  Campo  Ik-llo. 
Mary,  who  is  the  wife  of  C.  J.  Wilds,  of 
Halifax,  N,.S.,  was  born  on  September  7, 
1S35.  William  Henderson  Heer,  who  died  in 
iSgf),  was  born  on  September  5,  1837,  in 
Sussex  Vale,  lie  marrietl  Maria  Schofield,  a 
dauj^hter  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  .Schofield.  Jane 
Hope  (now  deccasetl)  was  born  on  April  11, 
1839.  She  married  William  ]\L  Jarvis,  of  St. 
John. 

lulwin  Bond  Ik-er  went  to  Iuii;land  at  twelve 
)ears  of  aj;e,  and  there  attended  the  Royal 
Naval  College  at  Greenwich  for  three  years.  In 
1848  he  returned  to  New  Brunswick,  and  the 
following  year  left  for  San  b'rancisco  on  board 
the  barqne  "Teal,"  commanded  by  Captain 
Gray.  After  two  and  a  half  years  sjient  in 
California  he  went  to  Auckland,  New  Zea- 
land, and  thence  to  Sydney,  Australia,  where 
he  remained  until  September,  1857,  when  he 
returned  to  Ijigland.  He  arrived  in  .St.  John 
in  January,  185S,  and  after  a  year's  residence 
in  that  city  he  came  to  Sussex  to  take  charge 


of  the  homestead  estate.  Since  that  time  he 
lias  been  engaged  in  farming. 

Colonel  Beer  was  married  in  1868  to  .Sarah 
Hogg,  of  Newcastle.  She  died  in  giving 
birth  to  her  son,  ICdwin  Leonard,  who  was 
born  in  June,  1S70,  and  is  now  in  Pritish  Co- 
lumbia. I'rior  to  1898  Ivlwin  L.  Beer  was 
employed  in  the  B.mk  of  Montreal.  In  1863 
Colonel  Beer  joined  the  militia,  forming  a 
company  of  which  be  was  Cajjtain.  He  was 
subsecpiently  Major  of  the  Second  Battalion 
of  Kings  County,  and  in  iSC>6  Lieutenant 
Colonel.  After  the  confederation  he  was  ap- 
pointed Lieutenant  Colonel  from  Kings 
County,  and  in  i868  he  joined  the  lughth 
Regiment  of  Cavalry.  In  1870  he  took  com- 
mand of  the  .Seventy-fourth  Battalion.  In 
1897  he  resigned  his  commission 

Colonel  Beer  is  a  member  of  the  lnde|)en- 
dent  Order  of  Odd  h'ellows.  i'rom  i87[  to 
1885  and  again  from  1893  to  1895  he  was 
Warden  in  the  Church  of  ICngland.  lie  iias 
served  as  chorister  for  a  number  of  years.  I  le 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Provincial 
Rifle  .\ssociation  and  in  1897  its  president. 
He  also  assisted  in  organizing  the  Dominion 
Rifle  Association,  and  commanded  the  Wim- 
bledon team  in  1878.  lie  is  at  the  present 
time  its  vice-jiresident. 


7T%HARLi;S    KDWARl)    HARDING,    a 
I  J|        retired    lumber   dealer    of    .St.    John, 

^ was    born    in    that    city,    November 

21,   1819,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Johnson) 
Harding.        His     grandfather     was     William 


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Ilardiii'r,  a  Loyalist  who  camo  from  tlie  States 
to  New  Urunswick  in  1783. 

Tiiomas  Harciin^,  tliu  fatiier,  was  l)oni  I'cl)- 
riiary  17,  17.S6,  in  St.  Jolm,  wIkic  lie  tol- 
lowcd  the  traile  of  a  tanner  throughout  the 
active  periiKJ  of  his  life,  lie  was  closely 
identified  with  local  iniblic  affairs,  his  nicin- 
bership  of  the  l',oard  of  Aldermen  extending; 
over  a  period  of  forty-five  years;  and  he  serv<'il 
with  ability  as  Mayor  of  the  city.  Mrs.  Mary 
Johnson  llardini;-,  his  wife,  was  born  October 
5,  1785.  She  was  a  dauj^hter  of  Georne  John- 
son, of  liorton,  N.S..  and  on  the  maternal 
side  was  a  rejiresentative  of  the  Cleveland 
family,  which  was  noted  for  its  longevity. 
The  averaf;e  a^e  of  her  uncles  and  aunts  was 
ei<^hty-one  years  and  ei,!.;lit  months,  and  her 
mother  lived  to  be  one  hundred  and  one  years 
old.  Thomas  and  Mary  Harding  were  the 
parents  of  eleven  chililren,  namely:  George 
Johnson  Harding,  M.I).,  who  was  born  Au- 
gust 8,  1808,  and  practised  his  profession  in 
.St.  John  for  many  years;  Mary  Elizabeth, 
born  May  2.  iSio,  who  married  Robert 
Taylor,  a  native  of  I'jigland,  and  died  January 
19,  1 89s;  Thomas,  born  February  29,  18  u, 
who  was  a  tanner  in  -St.  John  during  his  ac- 
tive years,  and  died  A|)ril  7,  1859;  William 
Harding,  M.D.,  born  January  18,  1814,  now 
living  in  retirement  in  St.  John;  N'alentinc 
John,  born  March  4,  1816,  who  is  now  resid- 
ing in  1  lardingville,  N.H.  ;  John  Henry,  born 
January  2,  1818;  Charles  lulward,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch ;  Jesse  Giles,  born  ( 'ctober  20, 
1821;  Harriet  L.,  born  November  17,  1823, 
who   died    September    30,     1895;    Leah,    born 


May  21,  1826;  and  .Sarah,  both  of  whom  died 
in  infancy.  The  father  died  .\|iril  7,  1854, 
and  the  mother,  who  lived  to  be  eighty-nine 
years  old,  died  April  19,  1875. 

Charles  lulward  Harding  was  educated  in 
.St.  John  and  at  the  Horton  Academy,  Nova 
.Scotia.  When  a  young  man  he  engaged  in 
carpentering,  which  he  fidlowed  for  five  years. 
He  then  learned  to  survey  lumber,  and  for 
thirty  years  was  City  .Surveyor.  I'or  eight 
years  he  was  suiierintendent  for  \.  S.  de  Mill ; 
and  after  the  death  of  the  latter  he  estab- 
lished the  lumber  Firm  of  ('.  Jv  Harding  & 
.Son,  with  which  he  continued  until  his  retire- 
ment in  1896. 

Mr.  Harding  was  married  1  )ctober  19, 
1S43,  to  Miss  .Susan  IClizabeth  Lawrence, 
daughter  of  Richaid  Lawrence,  a  native  of 
Staten  Island,  .\.^■.,  and  a  Loyalist,  who 
came  to  New  Brunswick  some  time  after  the 
.\nierican  Revolution.  Her  grandfather  was 
Colonel  Richard  Lawrence,  of  the  Hritish 
army,  who  after  the  close  01  hostilities  was 
arrested  by  the  American  authorities  as  an 
emjiloyee  of  King  G'.'orgc  III.  The  demand 
for  his  release  by  the  British  government  was 
eventually  complied  with:  and,  gf)ing  to  Lng- 
land,  he  died  in  Nottingham,  May  25,  1789. 
His  son  Richard,  born  1764,  died  1S46, 
who  was  engaged  in  ship-building  in  .St. 
John,  was  married  in  1810  tn  IClizabeth, 
daughter  of  ("aptain  Joseph  Mercer.  ( )f  the 
nine  children  born  of  this  union,  .Susan  I'.liza- 
beth,  wild  is  now  Mrs.  ll.uiling,  is  the  only 
one  living. 

Mr.  and    .Mrs.    Harding  aie  the   parents  of 


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elevL'i)  cliihlrLM),  namely:  I'".li/al)ctli,  wife  of 
Henry  M.  Hcckwith;  Olivia,  widow  of  John 
II.  Ilardin^s  Susan,  wiilow  of  Charles  A. 
riiinimer,  late  of  ("laf^etown,  N.H.  ;  Annctta, 
who  MKinied  iieniy  (dy,  of  the  same  place; 
Charles  I',.,  Jr.,  who  succeeded  his  father  in 
busiTiess;  i-'anny,  wife  of  James  V..  Coy,  also 
of  Gagetown;  Thomas  H.,  surveyor  of  lumber 
in  St.  John;  William  L.,  merchant  in  \'ar- 
mnuth,  \..S.;  Minna  Lawrence;  (ieorf^ia, 
wife  of  W.  1'.  H.  Patterson,  of  .St.  John;  and 
I"' rank  I')arle  IIarilin}r. 


/^V. 


ll.HI'RT  WILLIAM  VAN  WART, 
\|^_L  a  widely  known  dry-f;oods  merchant 
of  Woodstock,  N.I?.,  was  horn  in  Hamjistead, 
(Jueens  County,  N.  H.,  ( Jctoiier  -'9,  1.S32,  a 
son  of  Isaac  Van  Wart,  lie  comes  of  thrifty 
Dutch  stock,  his  paternal  ancestors  having; 
emirrrated  from  Holland  to  New  \'ork  in 
Colonial  times.  His  <;randfatiier,  Isaac  Van 
Wart,  Sr.,  was  born  on  Long  Island,  N.Y. , 
and  there  spent  his  early  years.  In  1783  he 
came  with  tiu'  colony  of  Loyalists  to  New 
Brunswick,  and  havini.;  settled  in  Wickhani, 
(Jueens  County,  devoted  his  attention  durinjj 
the  remainder  of  his  life  to  tilling  the  soil. 

Isaac  Van  W.irt  was  born  in  Wickhani, 
N.IV,  March  17,  1S02.  Cntil  attaining  his 
majority  he  lived  at  the  parental  homestead, 
assisting  his  father  in  farm  work.  Removing 
then  to  the  neighboring  town  of  Ilampstead, 
he  carried  on  general  farming  on  his  own  ac- 
count for  many  years,  owning  and  improving 
an  extensive  farm.      In    ICS54   he  retired   from 


active  pursuits,  and  thenceforward  he  made 
his  home  in  Woodstock  until  his  <lecease. 
Me  married  Catherine  Chirke,  of  liamjistead, 
by  whom  he  bad  five  children,  as  follows: 
lCle;iiior,  wife  of  Lennard  (i.  .Sii|)p,  ol  tiie 
[larish  of  Woodstock;  Deborah,  ileceased,  who 
was  the  wife  of  iC/ra  Urundage,  of  (ireenwich, 
Kings  Coimty,  N.  H.  ;  I'Vances,  wife  of 'I'honias 
Durgan,  of  Hridgewater  (Centre,  Mc. ;  (iilbert 
William;  and  Mary  I'lli/.ibeth,  wife  of  Samuel 
L.  Churchill,  of  Hulte  City,  Mont.  Hoth 
parents  were  members  of  the  I''ree  Ha|)tist 
chinch. 

Gilbert  W.  V;ui  Wart  ac(|uired  bis  early 
education  in  the  common  schools  of  Ilamp- 
stead, and  during  his  younger  days  became 
thoroughly  acquainted  with  the  practical  de- 
tails of  farming.  I''roni  1S54,  when  bis 
father  left  the  home  farm,  until  1857  be 
lived  with  his  brotlur-in-law,  L.  (i.  .Slipp. 
Mnibarking  then  in  merciintile  business,  be 
formed  a  iiartnership  with  William  Ste|)hen- 
son,  as  head  of  tiic  firm  of  Van  Wart  & 
Stei)henson,  which  for  five  years  had  a  large 
trade  in  general  merchandise.  In  1062  be 
bought  out  the  interest  of  the  junior  jiartner, 
and  from  that  time  until  the  jiresent  day  has 
continued  ahme.  lie  formerly  carried  dry 
goods,  groceries,  and  both  rcady-m;uie  ;uid 
custom-made  clothing;  but,  having  gradually 
reduced  his  assortment,  he  now  deals  in  dry 
goods  only.  In  the  earlier  jiart  of  his  career 
he  also  bad  an  extensive  wholesale  trade,  fur- 
nishing goods  to  the  greater  nundier  of  the 
dealers  uj)  the  St.  John  River.  l'"or  several 
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l)iisiiR's,s,  w.is  iij^ont  1)1  ilirt'i'  I'xpii'ss  coni- 
paiiics,  anil  also  did  |)ri\ato  linnkinj;,  there 
hoiiij;  .it  that  tiiiio  nii  orj;aiH/,cd  l)ai)k  in 
Woodsloik.  lit'  acted  as  a,i;ent  for  tlic  St. 
Stepiicn  Haidv  ot  St.  Stephen,  by  circiilatin>; 
their  notes,  as  lie,  bein^;  a  jjrivate  banker,  was 
not  aUowi'd  to  use  notes  uf  his  own.  In  1K80 
lie  assnnu-d  the  a^^ency  of  the  Maritime  Hank 
ol  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  and  i'i)ntinned  its 
agency  until  the  hank  went  out  of  existence. 

Mr.  Van  Wart  married  i'hiiiie,  dautjhter  of 
Uoher.son  Merritt,  of  llampstead,  \.  K.  of 
the  five  children  that  blessed  their  nnion  three 
are  now  living,  namely:  (lertrude  IClla,  wife 
of  John  Norman  \V.  WMnslow,  I'^sci.,  of  Wood- 
stock; Aiirilla,  wife  of  Jarvis  .S.  Stinson,  of 
Boston,  Mass.  ;  and  Annie  Mabel,  who  mar- 
ried George  II.  Harrison,  superintendent  of 
the  high  school  of  Woodstock,  N.  H.  Mr. 
Van  Wart  is  a  Liberal  in  politics.  He  has 
served  tour  terms  in  the  Town  Council,  and 
has  been  one  of  the  School  Trustees  ever  since 
the  free-school  .system  was  adopted.  He  be- 
longs to  Woodstock  Lodge,  !•".  &  A.  M.,  and 
is  a  member  of  the  I-'ree  Haptist  church. 


Caerlaverock, 


in    1S55   enteied   the   united 


ii.LL\:\i  liin'DOM':  jack,  m.a., 

D.C.I..,  late  president  of  the  Uni- 
versitv  of  New  Hruiiswitk,  dieil  at  bis  home  in 
I''rcdericton,  .November  2},  i.S.sri,  passing 
away  on  the  si.\ty-seventli  anniversary  of  his 
birth.  He  was  born  in  the  parish  of  Tinwald, 
Dumfriesshire,  .Scotland,  November  2},,  1819, 
and  came  of  honored  ancestiv.  He  was  ]ire- 
parcd  for  college  at  llulton    Hall    .\cadcmy  in 


college  of  St.  Salvator  and  .St.  Leon.ud's.  lie 
was  accounted  a  brilliant  scholar,  and  while  in 
that  institution  led  his  class  in  mathematics 
and  physics,  taking  the  highest  prizes  in  both 
those  studies.  He  gradnatetl  with  the  degree 
of  Master  of  Arts  in  .St.  Andrew's  University, 
l-'ifeshire,  in  1840,  and  soon  after  had  two  de- 
sirable positions  offered  him,  one  in  Manches- 
ter New  C(dlege,  Manihesler,  Lngland,  to 
succei'd  the  noted  Dr.  Dalton  as  professoi  of 
plusics,  and  tlu'  othei'  that  nf  professor  of 
mathematics,  natural  ])hilosopIiy,  and  astron- 
omy in  King's  College,  now  the  University  of 
New  Hrunswick,  l""redericton.  Several  of  his 
w.irni  friends,  among  them  Sir  David  Hrewster, 
one  of  his  lormer  teachers,  then  iirincipal  of 
St.  Anilrew's  C(dlege,  feared  that  the  duties 
and  responsibilities  of  the  New  College  would 
be  too  arduous  for  one  so  inexperienced,  and 
advised  him  to  accept  the  chair  in  King's  Col- 
lege, which  he  did  in  .September,   1840. 

King's  College,  as  the  L'niversity  was  then 
named,  was  under  the  control  of  the  t'huich  of 
I'jigland,  and  was  but  little  ])atroni/.ed  by 
members  of  otbei'  religious  bodies,  nor  was  the 
general  [jublic  in  entire  sym[)athy  with  its 
management.  During  the  years  that  followed 
various  attacks  were  made  u|)()n  the  institution 
by  the  Legislature  and  other  bodies  interested 
in  adxanced  education  for  the  \ontli  of  this 
li'ovince;  and  after  much  contention  it  was 
remodelled  in  i860,  and  its  name  changed  to 
the  L'liiversitN-  of  New  Hrunswick.  Since 
then  all  denominations  are  represented  in  its 
government.       Dr.    Jack   was  appointed   presi- 


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HIOr.RAI'IllCAI,    KKVIKW 


(lent  of  the  L'liivcr.sity  in  iSf)!,  ;mcl  lluTiMltcr 
administered  its  affairs  wilii  wisiiom.  Dinin.n 
the  vacations  he  travelled  extensively  in  the 
]in)\'ince,  and  l)y  publie  adtlre.^ses  and  peisonal 
interviews  with  men  nf  inlhienee  i)r()UL;ht  the 
I'ollege  into  pmniinent  nntiee  and  advaneed  its 
claims  as  an  educational  institution  of  the 
highest  order.  lie  liecame  well  known  as  an 
educator,  and  on  tlie  inauguration  of  the  tree 
school  system  was  made.  <  i  cjji'i'',  a  mendier  of 
the  Hoard  of  l-'.ducation.  In  iSS;;,  after  serv- 
ing forty-ti\e  consecutive  yeai's  as  a  ])rijfess(  . 
and  fourteen  years  as  president  of  the  Univer- 
sit\',  he  severed  his  eoimcction  with  it,  lesign- 
ing  th  '  ])residency  ,  n  account  of  lailing 
health,  and  was  retired  with  a  pension  of  one 
thousand  dollais  a  vear. 

Or.  Jack,  however,  never  lost  interest  in  the 
college,  and  in  iiS,S6  was  appointed  In  the 
government  a  niemlier  of  the  senate  of  the  L'ni- 
versitv,  a  place  which  he  occupied  at  the  time 
of  his  death.  The  ilegree  of  l)octor  of  Civil 
Law  was  conferred  upon  him  hv  this  Univer- 
sity in  I1S55.  .\  thorough  student  of  all 
sciences,  he  was  specialh'  interested  in  astron- 
om\,  and  was  among  the  liist  to  niake  use  of 
telegra])h\  in  determining  ilistances  of  loiii^i- 
tude.  Jiy  connection  with  the  liar\ard  Obser- 
vatfirv  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  he  ascertained  the 
true  longitude  of  J''iedei  icton,  and,  taking  this 
longitude  as  a  basis,  I'mmd,  at  the  expense  and 
lor  the  benefit  of  the  local  government,  the 
longitude  of  St.  John  and  of  \arious  places  on 
the  ho  ndars'  lines  ol  tiie  p|-o\-ince.  lie  was 
thus  of  great  service  to  ,Si,-  Willi. nn  I.o-.in  in 
his  c(jnstruct ion  of  the  geological  map  of  Can- 


atla.  l)r.  Jack  was  a  l'"el.ow  of  the  Royal 
j  Astronomical  .Society  of  London,  luigland, 
'  and  of  the  Athomeum  of  New  Brimswick. 

\)y.  Jack  was  twice  married,  and  by  his  first 
wife,  Marian  Lllen,  \iiimgest  daughter  of  J^\- 
torney  (ieneral  I'eleis.  had  eight  childre.i,  two 
of  whom  aie  living.  In  1S59  he  married 
Caroline,  daughtei  of  \o:ih  Uisbrowe,  a  Jus- 
tice of  I'eaee  antl  a  former  merchant  of  St. 
John.  ;\Irs.  Jack,  who  is  still  living,  comes 
I  distinguished  slock,  the  l)ishrowes  having 
,  been  earlv  settlers  of  Xorwalk,  Conn.,  and 
]ieople  of  considerable  means.  In  former  da\s 
llrj\  were  slaveholders.  In  17S3  thev  re- 
moved with  the  colony  of  Loyalists  to  Xew 
lirunswick,  and  here  became  identified  with 
the  best  interests  of  the  |)i'ovince.  \(jah  Dis- 
browe  was  a  magistrate  at  the  time  of  his 
di'ath.  -Mthough  not  a  member  of  an\'  relig- 
i  ious  orgari/' ' 'on,  he  was  a  good  Christian, 
lie  reared  L.iree  sons,  two  of  whom  were  or- 
daineil  clergymen  of  the  Church  of  l-jigland. 
Mrs.  Jack  has  one  daughter,  Mrs.  Lewis  1). 
Milledge,  of  .St.  John,  and  fmir  sons.  Two  of 
the  sous  aie  residents  of  Hiitish  Cidumbia,  one 
being  a  physician  in  X'ancouvi'r  and  one  a  law- 
\(.'r.  .\  third,  now  deceased,  was  an  engineer. 
The  fouilh  Sol),  also  .111  engineer,  is  locateil  in 
the  United  Siates. 


BAVIl)  T.M'LKY.  late  Police  Magis- 
trate and  Judge  of  the  Civil  Court, 
Portland,  was  born  in  .Sheffield, 
.Snnliurv  (  ounty,  N.H. ,  April  1  J,  1820,  son 
of  l),ivid  and  ILinnah  (  b'leteher)  'laple\-.      lie 


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was  dcsccndcil  from  Jnnu's  Kobeit  Tapley,  a 
mariner  and  Loyalist,  who  was  a  native  of 
i'rovidciice,  R.I.  Wliiie  in  Cork,  Ireland, 
James  R(il)ert  'I'apley  married  a  Miss  O'Brien, 
wlio  was  a  i;rand-dau;.?hter  of  a  lord.  He 
came  to  New  Hriinswick  with  his  bride,  and 
settled  upon  a  tract  ot  land  in  Sunbury 
County,  where  he  was  engaged  in  farming  for 
the  rest  til  his  liie.  lie  died  at  the  age  of 
forty-five,  ai  d  his  wife  survived  him  many 
years,  lie  was  the  father  of  si.x  children; 
namely,  William,  Joliii,  bavid,  Ann,  Mary, 
and  James. 

David  Tapley,  .Sr. ,  Judge  Tapley's  father, 
was  born  in  Sunbury  County  in  1791.  In 
early  life  he  was  a  farmer,  but,  moving  to 
.St.  Jol'.n  in  [S47,  he  there  carried  on  a  lum- 
ber business  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
November  30,  ICS69.  Me  was  a  firm  believer 
ill  total  abstinence.  He  married  Hannah 
I'"letcher,  a  native  of  Nova  .Scotia,  and  was 
the  father  of  nine  children,  namely:  David, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch;  John,  a  lumber- 
man, who  died  in  St.  John,  l'"ebruary  16, 
1893;  I\Iary,  who  died  at  tlie  age  of  fifteen 
years;  Robert,  who  went  to  Australia  in 
1853,  .and  is  n<iw  living  in  New  Zealand; 
Archibald  and  Daniel  I"".,  who  are  ])rominent 
businessmen  of  .St.  John;  Hannah,  widow  of 
.Shadrach  Holly;  Ann,  widow  of  George  V. 
Hrowii,  who  died  August  1,  1S97;  and  Eliza- 
beth, who  is  unmarried.       The  mother  tiled  in 

I)avi<l  Tajiley,  the  subject  ol  this  sketch, 
acquired  his  education  in  the  common  school;;, 
lie  worked  upon  a  f.irm  until  nf  age,  when   he 


moved  to  St.  John  and  engaged  in  surveying 
and  the  general  lumber  business.  He  contin- 
ued in  these  employments  until  1856,  when 
he  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  from  Sunbury 
County.  He  was  re-elected  the  following 
year,  and  served  as  a  member  for  that  county 
continuo  .dy  until  1861.  He  was  the  author 
of  the  bill  reducing  the  number  of  the  jury  in 
civil  cases  in  the  Supreme  Court  from  twelve 
to  seven  men.  After  the  expiration  of  his 
second  term  he  was  repeatedly  solicited  to  le 
a  candidate  for  re-election,  but  declineil.  lie 
remained  on  his  farm  in  .Sunbury  County 
three  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  ac- 
cepted the  appointments  of  Police  Magistrate 
and  Judge  of  the  Civil  Court,  I'ortland. 
These  offices  he  filleil  with  marked  ability. 
In  1876  he  began  the  study  of  law,  and,  hav- 
ing passed  a  creditable  examination,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  October,  1880.  In 
jiolitics  he  su]ii)orted  the  Liberal  |)arty.  He 
was  made  a  Mason  in  L^nion  Lodge,  St.  John, 
and  was  a  Knight  Templar.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Church  of  luigland  anil  a  Vestry- 
man of  St.  Luke's  Church,  I'ortland  (now  a 
part  of  St.  John),  and  was  lield  in  high  esteem 
by  all  who  knew  him.  lie  died  Julv  18, 
1895. 

( )n  November  19,  i84i,JiKlge  Tapley  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Margaret  Ann 
Dalton,  daughter  of  Samuel  Dalton.  He  was 
the  father  of  seven  children,  of  whom  two 
sons  survive:  l'"rederick,  of  .St.  John;  and 
Horace,  who  married  Cora  Reynolds,  of  .St. 
John,  has  three  children,  and  resides  in 
.\ashua,    N.ll.      I-'reilerick    Tapley   was    born 


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ill  St.  John,  ( )ctobL'r  16,  1X46.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  St.  John  and  at 
Oromocto.  In  1870  he  entered  the  office  of 
the  Intercolonial  Railroad  Company,  St. 
John,  and  is  now  freinlit  ajjcnt.  lie  i.s  a 
member  of  Albion  I.odL^e,  No.  1,  I'".  &  A.  M. ; 
and  New  Hriinswick  Lod^e,  Kni_!.,dits  of  I'ytli- 
ias.  He  attends  .St.  Luke's  Church.  On 
June  3.  1M74,  he  married  Miss  Mary  ICli/a- 
bi-'th  Harnhill,  daughter  of  Alexander  liarn- 
hill.  They  have  five  chiklren  —  Mlla  Mc- 
Nutt,  I'redericU  liryaii,  William  (luv.  Mar- 
yueretta,  and  Alexander  Harnhill  Tapley. 


f^^JUAMiGK  \I':i,S()N  l'i;.\RS(.)N,  M.I)., 
\f^_|,  the  well-known  physician  and  sur- 
j;eon  of  Sussex,  was  born  in  Kings  County  on 
September  4,  1857,  his  parents  beiii!^  George 
and  Mliza  Ruth  (Secord)  I'earson.  His  pa- 
ternal j^randlather  was  Thomas  I'earson,  who 
was  a  native  of  Cumherland,  lui^hind,  and 
was  engaj^ed  there  as  a  coal  merchant.  lie 
married  a  Miss  lieaviside,  and  in  iSj?  came 
with  ber  and  their  family  to  New  Brunswick, 
and  settled  on  a  farm  in  .Stiulliolm,  then  a 
jiart  of  Sussex  parish,  where  lie  carried  on  an 
extensive  farmiiii;'  business.  lie  died  at  the 
aj^e  of  eij^hty-two  years.  His  wife,  who  sur- 
vived him  several  years,  died  also  at  the  n'j;c 
of  eighty-two.  Their  children  were:  John; 
Thomas;  Joseph;  William:  l-lli/abetb.  who 
married  Walter  .Murray;  Richard;  James; 
Ann,  who  married  Havid  Murry;  Isaac:  and 
(ieori;e.  Of  these  George  is  the  only  sur- 
vivor.     Horn    in    i8ji,   he   was   reared   on   the 


farm,  and  at  one  time  engaged  quite  exten- 
sively in  Unnhering.  His  wife,  the  mother  of 
I)r  Pearson,  was  born  in  .Studholm,  her  father 
being  James  .Secord,  son  of  William  .Secord, 
a  Loyalist  from  New  York,  who  settled  in 
Greenwick,  N.  H. ,  in  1783,  and  her  mother, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Ann  Sharp,  being 
the  daughter  of  Robert  .Sharp,  also  a  Loyalist 
from  New  York,  1783.  The  following  chil- 
ilren  were  born  to  (icorge  and  Kliza  l-tuth 
I'earscn:  J.  T.  II.,  who  resides  on  the  old 
homestead;  Hessie  A.,  wife  of  Andrew  L. 
Ailair,  of  Studholm-  John  IL,  who  was  for 
some  years  a  merchant  in  .Spencer,  Mass., 
and  who  died  at  the  age  of  thirty-eight; 
George  N.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Mary 
A.  ;  limma  M.,  now  deceased,  formerly  the 
wife  of  Arthur  Rankin;  Alice  R.,  a  trained 
nurse  at  Newton,  Mass.;  Albert  K.,  who  is  a 
teacher  by  profession;  and  Ida  J.,  wife  of 
James  H.  .Manchester,  of  .Studholm.  Mr. 
I'earson  resides  on  the  I'earson  f;irm,  and  is 
one  of  the  representative  men  of  liis  section, 
I  lis  wife  dieil  in  1894. 

Dr.  P'ear.son  grew  up  on  the  fa,  .11,  and  dur- 
ing his  boyhood  attended  the  common  schools. 
He  subsei|uently  entered  the  normal  sch'>ol, 
and,  after  pursuing  a  course  of  stu<ly  there,  he 
taught  school  for  several  years,  meeting  with 
excellent  success.  He  began  the  study  of  his 
present  profession  with  Dr.  James  H.  Gray, 
now  of  I'';iirville,  X.H.,  continued  his  studies 
with  the  late  Dr.  Charles  .\.  Murr.iy,  of  Stud- 
1  holm,  and  after  two  years  under  their  tutelage 
entered  Hellevue  Hosjiital  Medical  College, 
New   York,      Three   years   later   he  graduated 


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froiii  that  iii.stitutio:!,  ami  in  1S91  he  began 
the  practice  of  medicine  in  .\i)()lia(|ui,  N.H. 
In  1893  he  came  to  Sussex  to  succeetl  the  late 
l)r.  Raymond,  and  ho  has  since  practised  here 
must  snccessfiilly. 

The  Doctor  was  married  in  18S6  to  Jennie 
T. ,  daughter  of  the  late  Charles  Secord,  of 
Sussex.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Kings 
County  Medical  Society,  of  the  New  Hruns- 
wick  Medical  Societv,  and  of  the  Maritime 
Medical  Society;  also  of  the  Masonic  frater- 
nity and  of  the  Independent  Carder  of  l-"ores- 
ters.  Me  is  chairman  of  the  Liberal  Conserv- 
ative Association  for  the  parish  of  Sussex. 
While  a  student  in  tlie  normal  school,  the 
Doctor  was  awarded  the  Lansdown  Senior 
me<lal. 


IDWARD  T.  C.  KMOWLI'S,  barrister. 
St.  John,  was  born  on  January  26, 
1850,  son  of  ICdward  T.  and  l'h(vbe  J.  (Chcs- 
lev)  Knowles.  Ilis  father  was  born  in  New- 
port, N.  S. ,  January  5,  1 S04.  Ilis  grand- 
father, Henry  Knowles,  was  born  in  l'"almouth, 
N.S. ,  in  1777;  and  his  great-grandfather,  also 
named  Henry  Knowles,  was  born  in  Newport, 
R.  I.,  in  1720.  llenrv  Knowles,  Sr.,  who 
went  from  Rhode  Island  to  Newport,  N.S. ,  in 
1760,  married  Molly  Williams,  of  Hartford, 
C(nin.,  and  his  children  were:  William, 
Nathan,  .Sarah,  Henry,  and  Martha.  Sarah 
married  Joshua  .Smith,  and  Martha  married 
Daniel  I'^aton,  a  sea  captain. 

Henry  Knowles,  Jr.,  who  was  a  ])rosperous 
farmer    of     Newpiut.     N.S. ,     married     (Irace 


Church,  ilaughter  of  Kdward  and  Mary  (.Shaw) 
Church.  The  latter  was  a  daughter  of  Arnold 
Shaw,  and  both  the  Churches  and  .Shaws  were 
among  the  |)arty  which  went  from  Rhode 
Isl.and  to  Nova  Scotia  in  1760.  The  grand- 
father died  in  I'"almouth  in  August,  1822,  and 
the  grandmother  died  in  Newport  in  Novem- 
ber, 1824.  They  had  a  family  of  eight  chil- 
dren; namely,  lulward  T. ,  Mary,  Martha  .S., 
William  C,  Alexander,  IMicrbe  IC,  .Sarah  R., 
and  James  .S.  Mary  married  .Samuel  (lodfrey, 
and  died  in  Albett  County,  New  Brunswick. 
Martha  .S.  married  Henry  Northrup,  and  died 
in  New  York  City.  William  C.  died  in  Hlue 
Hill,  Me.  .\le.\ander  died  while  young. 
I'hiebe  K.  married  Mark  Rathbun,  and  died  in 
I'^redericton,  N.  H.  Sarah  R.  married  James 
Dotten,  and  died  at  West])ort,  Conn.,  in  1893. 
James  S.  died  in  the  I'nited  .States  iluring  the 
Civil  War. 

I'xlward  T.  Knowles,  I-'dward  T.  C. 
Knowles's  father,  entered  mercantile  business 
as  a  clerk  in  a  store  at  Granville,  N..S.,  when 
a  young  man,  and  first  came  to  .St.  John  in 
1S24.  He  was  employed  here  as  a  clerk  until 
going  to  I''redericton,  wluie  he  was  similarly 
engaged.  Returning  to  this  city  in  1836,  he 
establislied  the  firm  of  Knowles  &  Thome, 
dealers  in  West  India  goods  on  South  Wharf, 
and  became  interested  in  shipping.  That 
concern,  whose  warehouse  was  burned  out  in 
1837  and  again  in  1839,  was  dissolved  after 
a  prospei'ous  exialenci'  of  several  years,  and 
Mr.  Knowles  continued  in  business  alone. 
At  the  time  of  his  deatli.  which  occurretl  in 
18S7,  he  was  (Uie  of  the  oUlcst  members  of  .St. 


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John's  Lodge',  ]'".  &  A.  M.,  though  not  ac- 
tively associated  with  tlie  lotl^^o.  lie  took  an 
active  interest  in  religious  matters,  and  was 
one  of  the  first  trustees  of  the  Centenary 
(Methodist)  Church. 

On  April  23,  1S34,  lulward  T.  Knowles 
married  for  his  first  wife  Mrs.  Sibyl  Hall, 
born  Thorne,  daughter  of  James  Thorne,  of 
Ciranville.  She  was  the  widow  of  Captain 
Moses  liall,  by  whom  she  had  one  daughter, 
i;iizabeth  P.,  who  married  John  II.  I'oster,  of 
St.  John.  iiy  her  second  marriage  she  had 
four  chiUlren;  namely,  Joseph  S.,  lulwardT., 
Anna  Sneden,  and  Jane  Hall.  Anna  Sncden 
marrieil  the  late  .Stephen  J.  King,  Po^t-office 
Inspector,  and  had  seven  children,  three  of 
whom  are  living  —  Anna  A.,  Allen  G.,  and 
Sibelle.  The  others  were:  .Stanley,  Helen, 
George  T.,  and  Josepiiine.  lidwaril  T.  and 
Jane  Hall  died  in  infancy.  Joseph  S. 
Knowles,  who  was  born  in  Granville  in  1S35, 
completed  his  education  at  the  Sackville 
.\cademy,  and  from  1S58  to  1877  was  in  the 
service  of  the  .St.  John  Gaslight  Company. 
Turning  bis  attention  to  journalism,  he  jnib- 
lished  for  some  time  a  literary  paper  called 
the  Tonli.  He  was  subsec[uently  connected 
with  other  papers,  and  in  1.SS8  he  became  as- 
sociated with  W.  K.  KeynoUls  in  establishing 
tiie  (iripsiick,  which  is  devoted  to  the  inter- 
ests of  trade  and  commercial  travellers.  ( )n 
the  withdrawal  of  Mr.  Reynolds  in  1892  to 
take  the  editorship  of  /'nii;/rss,  Mr.  Joseph  S. 
Knowles  took  the  entire  charge  of  the  paper, 
which  he  is  now  carrying  on.  He  belongs  to 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  P'ellows,  and  is 


an  active  member  of  the  Centenary  Church. 
In  P'ebruary,  1887,  Joseph  S.  Knowles  mar- 
ried iMiima  N.  Noble,  daughter  of  Robert  J. 
Noble,  of  Halifa.v.  They  have  four  children 
living  —  .Sibyl  T.,  ICmily  .S.,  Kathleen  y\., 
and  Robert  Iv  Another  child  died  in  in- 
fancy. l'",dward  T.  Knowles's  fust  wife  died, 
and  in  December,  1848,  he  married  l'h(i.be  J. 
Chesley,  ilaughter  of  Samuel  Chesley,  Jr., 
who  was  the  first  English  male  child  born  in 
Granville,  N. S. ,  being  a  son  of  Samuel  Ches- 
ley, who  assisted  in  laying  out  that  township. 
Of  this  union  was  born  one  child,  I'klward 
T.  C,.,  whose  personal  history  is  given  below. 
I'"dward  T.  Knowles's  second  wife  died  in 
1850,  and  in  the  following  year  he  married  for 
his  third  wife  Kthelinda  A.  Husby,  daughter 
of  the  Rev.  .Samijson  Husby,  a  Methodist  min- 
ister. Her  mother,  who  was  before  marriage 
Maria  Hyard,  was  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia. 

Having  acquired  his  early  education  in  the 
St.  John  public  schools,  ICdward  T.  C. 
Knowles  pursued  his  law  studies  in  the  office 
of  Messrs.  Morrison  &  King.  He  was  ad- 
mitted as  an  attorney  in  1S71  and  as  a  barris- 
ter the  following  year.  For  over  twenty-five 
years  he  has  transacted  a  general  law  business. 
He  has  taken  some  interest  in  iniblic  affairs, 
and  served  in  the  Common  Council  for  two 
years. 

In  1888  Mr.  Knowles  was  joined  in  mar- 
riage with  Mary  II.  Thorne,  daughter  of 
Richartl  W.  and  a  grand-daughter  of  James 
Thorne.  He  belongs  to  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  the  Ancient  Order  of 
United  Workmen,  and  the  Tiimple  of  Honor. 


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member  of  the  Moanl  of  Trustees. 


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ANIKI..  K.  TAPLl'lV,  of  the  fum  of 
^  m  Tai)ley  brothers,  steamboat  owners 
and  luniher  manufacturers,  St.  John, 
was  born  in  Sheffield,  Sunhury  County,  N.li., 
May  19,  1831,  son  of  I)a\id  and  Hannah 
(I'Metchcr)  Tapley.  h'nr  aniestral  history  see 
sketch  of  Taplc)-  family. 

Daniel  V.  Tapley  resided  mion  the  home- 
stead farm  in  Shefifield  until  he  was  sixteen 
years  old,  when  ho  accompanied  his  parents  to 
St.  John.  lie  was  with  his  brother  David  in 
the  lumber  business  from  about  1847  to  1S54, 
when  he  became  part  owner  and  master  of  a 
tug-boat,  which  he  ran  for  twel\e  years.  In 
1S66  Jcihn,  Archibald,  and  Daniel  1"'.  Tapley 
organized  the  firm  of  Tapley  brothers  for  the 
purpose  of  carrying  on  the  tug-boat  and  lumber 
business.  The  three  continued  in  partnership 
until  the  death  of  John  Tapley  in  IiSqj,  since 
which  time  the  remaining  two  have  conducted 
the  enterprise;  and,  besides  handling  large 
quantities  of  lumber,  they  operate  si.\  boats. 

In  1856  Mr.  Tapley  married  I^leanor  Ann 
Urown,  who  was  born  in  Sunbury  County,  New 
Ihunswick,  daughter  of  Jolm  S.  Hrown,  a  na- 
tive of  Sunbury  C  nunty,  at  that  time  there  en- 
gaged in  lumbering  and  farming.  At  a  later 
date  Mr.  lirown  removed  to  St.  John,  where  for 
many  years  he  was  a  lumberman  and  surveyor. 
Mrs.  Tapley  has  bad  ele\en  children,  three  of 
whom,  James  Robert,  Avilda,  and  h-liza  K., 
tlied   in   infancy.      The   living  are:   Dora,  wife 


of  Cieorge  G.  Davis,  of  I'oint  Wolf,  Albert 
County,  N.  15.  ;  ]''enwick  W. ,  who  is  with  the 
Tapley  brothers;  Nellie  K.,  wife  of  Charles 
McDonald,  of  St.  John;  Lewis,  who  ni;irried 
Catherine  l<'l(irence  (lately,  and  resides  in  Bos- 
ton; Mary  !•".  ;  yXda  (i.  ;  y\lice  1'.  ;  and  Daniel 
1'".,  Jr.  l'"enwick  W.  'i'apley  married  I'.mma 
Urannan,  daughter  of  Cajitain  Charles  Ihannan. 
Mr.  Taple\-,  like  his  father,  is  a  total  ab- 
stainer from  the  use  of  alcoholic  stimulants, 
and  is  an  earnest  advocate  of  temperance. 


\DRi;\V  II.  J  (INKS,  of  Moncton, 
N.  H.,  is  a  youn;,'  man  of  excellent 
business  qualiPiCations,  possessing 
in  a  large  measure  the  keenness  and  foresight 
that  are  sure  to  win  success  in  any  field  of 
labor.  lie  was  born  in  Moncton,  May  i, 
1866,  a  son  of  Oliver  and  IClizabeth  J.  (  Hecr) 
Jones.  l-urther  ancestral  history  may  be 
found  in  connection  with  the  sketch  of  his 
father,  Oliver  Jones,  on  another  page  of  this 
biograi)hical  work. 

Mr.  Jones,  having  completed  his  education 
at  the  Baptist  Seniinary  in  .St.  John,  N.H., 
worked  for  a  number  of  years  in  the  wholesale 
dry-goods  establishment  of  Manchester  & 
Allison  in  that  cit\'.  Returning  in  1890  to 
Moncton,  he  assinned  the  charge  of  his 
father's  many  enterjirises,  and  at  the  same 
time  opened  a  book  and  periodical  store.  The 
store  he  conducted  most  successfully  until 
I S94,  when  he  sold  out  to  his  brother, 
.Middleton  H.  Jones,  in  order  that  he  might 
devote   his   entire   time   and   attention    to   his 


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father's   business  operations,   which    he    still 
manaj^es  with  ability. 

Mr.  Jones  married  ICnima  j.,  dauj^hter  of 
L'aptain  Ambrose  Snow,  of  Smithtown,  N.  H., 
anil  they  have  two  children,  namely:  Reginald 
II.,  born  April  13,  1894;  and  Stanley  S. , 
born  IJeceniber  30,  1.S95,  In  politics  Mr. 
Jones  is  a  Liberal.  Both  he  and  bis  wife 
are  members  of  the   Baptist  church. 


I.IVICR  JONICS,  a  vener.ible  and  re- 
-^1  spected  citizen  of  Moncton,  N.l>.. 
has  been  the  leading  sjiirit  in  tin'  de- 
velopment of  the  real  estate  business  of  the 
town  and  the  promoter  of  many  of  the  indus- 
trial enterprises  that  have  steadily  contributed 
to  its  growth  and  pros])erity.  He  was  born  in 
I'etitcodiac,  X.  H.,  December  15.  iSji,  a  son 
of  Jacob  and  Hannah  (Corey)  Jones,  being  the 
seventh  child  in  a  family  of  nine  boys  and 
girls,  of  whom  but  one  beside  himself  is  now 
living — 'namely,  his  brother,  Malcolm  Jones. 
Hut  little  is  known  of  his  grandfather,  Henry 
Jones,  who  was  engaged  in  agricultural  pur- 
suits in  the  Province  of  New  Brunswick  dur- 
ing his  entire  life. 

Mr.  Jones  first  made  his  ajiiiearance  in 
Moncton  when  a  lad  of  eight  years,  coming 
to  "the  Bend,"  as  the  place  was  then  called, 
to  spend  a  year  with  his  elder  sister,  Mrs. 
Bennett,  the  mother  of  Mrs.  C.  B.  Record 
and  Mrs.  J.  DeWolf  Spnrr.  He  distinctly 
remembers  the  existing  conditions  of  that 
period,  when,  among  the  lUuc  or  ten  buildings 
which  safely  housetl  the  entire  population,  the 


one  erected  by  Christian  Trites  on  the  river 
bank,  near  the  railway  machine  sho|)s,  was  the 
only  one  made  of  brick.  At  the  end  of  the 
year,  in  1S30,  he  returned  to  I'etitcodiac, 
where  he  remained  until  iS3(;,  when  he  set- 
tled permanently  in  Moncton.  lie  found  that 
"the  Bend"  had  grown  to  some  extent  in  his 
absence,  although  all  the  buililings,  including 
the  stores  as  well  as  the  residences,  were 
grouped  on  .Steadnian,  Pleasant,  Duke,  and 
Main  .Streets,  while,  with  the  exception  of 
an  occasional  opening,  the  entire  west  end  of 
the  town  was  in  its  original  wildness,  a  part 
of  it  being  a  vast  swamp.  Wild  game  was 
abundant  in  the  forest,  and  the  local  sportsmen 
found  keen  enjoyment  along  the  river's  edge, 
in  the  swamp,  and  in  the  wooils. 

Very  soon  after  coming  h  ;re  .Mr.  Jones 
made  his  first  purchase  of  leal  estate  by  in- 
vesting one  thousand  dollars  in  the  Crook- 
shank  and  Walker  proi)erty,  which  contained 
four  acres  of  land  extending  from  Main  .Street 
to  the  river,  and  including  the  landing-place, 
the  store,  and  the  old  Moncton  Hotel,  which 
j  is  still  standing.  The  iirice,  a  fair  one, 
I  which  then  seemed  enormous,  would  now 
I  scarce  buy  a  frontage  of  fifteen  feet  in  that 
section  of  the  city.  Mr.  Jones  conducted  the 
hotel  for  a  few  years  in  comjiany  with  Mr. 
James  Dunlap,  keeping  a  bar,  as  was  then  cus- 
tomary in  all  public  houses,  the  selling  of 
licjuor  being  as  legitimate  a  traile  as  dealing 
in  groceries  or  dry  goods.  In  1  ,S4 1  he  sold 
out  to  his  partner,  and  turned  his  attention  to 
trading  and  speculating  both  in  lands  and 
cattle.      In  US41    he  built  a  wharf   to   take  the 


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place  of  the  old  huulinj;  above  referred  to, 
employing  Captain  liabineau  to  do  the  exca- 
vatiiij,',  ;ind  Tiinotliy  Gallaf^her  the  wood 
work,  the  entire  cost  being  four  Jiundred 
dollars. 

Ill  184S,  havinj;  made  some  money  by 
former  s|)eciilations,  Mr.  Jones  made  his  first 
lari^c  purchase  of  realty  by  buying  from  the 
late  John  'I'rites  eight  hundred  acres  of  land 
that  had  originally  belonged  to  the  very  first 
settlers  of  the  town,  and  embraced  a  large  part 
of  the  middle  and  west  end,  extending  from 
the  river  on  the  south  to  the  creek  at  the 
foot  of  the  Stephen  1  lumphrey  homestead  on 
the  north.  Owing  to  the  depredations  of  the 
grubs;' "which  had  eaten  the  grass  from  the 
marshes  for  two  successive  seasons,  Mr.  Tritcs 
had  failed  to  receive  any  income  from  the 
land;  and  he  offered  the  entire  tract,  subject 
to  a  mortgage  of  seven  hundred  jiounds,  for 
two  thousand,  two  himdred  and  fift}'  pounds, 
with  a  margin  of  sixteen  years  to  make  the 
payments.  Going  then  to  the  late  Lieuten- 
ant Governor  (then  Mr.)  Chandler,  the  mort- 
gagee, Mr.  Jone.i  explained  to  him  the  condi- 
tions, and,  having  made  satisfactory  terms  ! 
with  him  regarding  the  payment,  set  to  work 
improving  the  property.  The  very  first  year 
after  taking  |)ossession  he  received  one  thou- 
sand dollar'-  for  the  hay  he  raised  on  it,  and 
the  peo;  le  who  had  predicted  his  financial 
ruin  began  to  change  their  minds.  (;iearing 
a  space  in  the  forest,  he  built  a  frame  house, 
which  be  occupied  until  the  com|)letion  ol  his 
present  commodious  residence.  Neighbors 
assisted  him  in  removing  the  trees  and   grad- 


ing the  ground,  among  them  being  Abner 
Jones,  Robert  Wilson,  Mr.  West,  Christian 
and  Ri'uben  .Steeves;  and  old  Mr.  I'looks  and 
Gesner  Harris  did  the  cari)entering.  Of  all 
these  peojile,  once  prominent  at  "the  Hend," 
not  one  is  now  living. 

A  few  years  later,  perhajis  forty  years  ago, 
Mr.  Jones,  while  (|uite  sick  with  malarial 
fever,  set  a  gang  of  men  to  work,  under  the 
supervision  of  the  late  Montgon-.ery  Stewart, 
on  the  opening  of  Ilighfield,  Monaccord, 
High,  and  other  streets  in  that  locality  to  the 
Mountain  I'ioad.  The  prosjiect  of  the  land  in 
that  vicinity  ever  being  recpiired  for  building 
jiurposes  was  then  very  tlubious,  and  people 
said  that  Mr.  Jones's  illness  had  affected  his 
mind,  otherwise  he  would  never  have  con- 
ceived such  a  project.  The  opening  of  the 
streets,  however,  proveil  of  inestimable  bene- 
fit, the  draining  of  the  swamp  making  the 
land  available  for  farming;  and  his  subse- 
cpient  sales  of  land  have  proved  the  wisdom  of 
his  daring  venture,  lie  was  for  several  years 
as.sociated  with  many  of  the  most  extensive 
real  estate  transactions  of  Moncton,  having 
alwavs  been  readv  to  sell  on  a  rising  market, 
hut  is  not  now  a  very  large  holder  of  land, 
though  he  is  indirectly  interested  in  many  es- 
tates. 

Mr.  Jones  has  also  been  identified  with 
many  other  enterprises  of  value  to  the  town. 
In  I  STjo  he  began  the  manufacture  of  a  soap 
which  acquiretl  a  wide  reputation  for  its  su- 
perior qualities  anil  at  the  .Sussex  exhibition 
won  the  first  prize,  lie  afterward  established 
a  soapery,  which   was   successfully   contlucteil 


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by  tliu  hitc  W.  S.  Ttirn.'y  lor  a  niin)l)LT  nf 
years.  1 1 c  was  also  the  prime  mover  in  liio 
cstablisiimeiit  of  the  Westmorland  liaiik:  and 
he  accompanied  the  late  Patrick  Kin;^  to  St. 
John  to  secnre  the  thirty  thonsand  dollars  in 
gold  with  which  the  hank  was  cai)itali/.ed, 
goini;  just  after  a  heavy  freshet,  when  the 
roads  were  so  Hooded  that,  hut  for  the  careful- 
ness of  the  driver  and  Mr.  Jones's  precaution 
to  have  the  box  containing;  the  money  fastened 
into  the  wagon  with  a  heavy  cord,  the  gold 
would  have  been  lost  in  the  mi;;hty  torrent  of 
waters. 

In  18'pJ,  .iftei' the  disastrous  failure  of  the 
Salters,  extensive  ship-builders,  .Mr.  Jones, 
in  order  to  protect  himself,  continued  the  in- 
dustry for  a  while  on  his  own  account,  beini; 
associated  with  the  late  Governor  Chandler. 
I'.niployin;.;  \V.  II.  T.  .Sumner.  Abiier  Jones, 
and  A.  .McKay  as  builders,  he  and  his  asso- 
ciates in  the  short  space  of  a  year  and  a  half 
had  completed  three  twelve-hundred-ton  ships, 
the  "John  Hunyan,"  the  '*  lllizabeth  Kate," 
and  the  "  ll.xcelsior. ''  anil  also  three  smaller 
vessels.  .After  retiring,'  from  the  ship-build- 
ini;'  business  Mr.  Jones  devoted  himself  al- 
most entirely  to  private  banking  and  money 
loaning,  carrying  on  a  very  successful  finan- 
cial business  until  relieved  from  care  and 
worry  by  his  son,  Andrew  II.  Jones,  who  now 
assumes  all  resjionsibilities  connected  with 
the  various  enterjirises  in  which  he  is  inter- 
ested. In  politics  be  is  independent,  and  at 
one  time  siM'vi-'d  as  Mayor  of  .Moncton.  In  his 
religious  belief  he  is  a  Baptist.  I  le  contributed 
largely  toward  the  building  of  the   i-'irst    !!a|)- 


tist  (liurch,  and  was  subsetpiently  a  gencrou.s 
giver  toward  the  erection  ol  the  edifice  occu- 
pied by  the  l''ree  Kaptists. 

Mr.  Jones  first  married  I'.Lizabeth  Steeves, 
who  bore  him  four  children,  ol  wIkmh  I  )r. 
Lemuel  !•".  Jones  is  the  only  suivivcu'.  liy 
his  second  wife,  Kate  .Simpson,  he  had  si.x 
children,  ol  whom  but  one  is  living,  lunily 
.\.,  wife  of  John  .S.  Trites,  of  .Sussex,  N.  H. 
Of  his  union  with  llli/.abeth  J.  lieer,  his  pres- 
ent wife,  eleven  children  have  been  born,  and 
of  these  live  are  living,  namely:  Andrew  11., 
of  whom  a  brief  sketch  may  be  found  else- 
where in  this  Volume;  (iurney  R.,  who  mar- 
ried Alice  Price,  and  has  three  children -- 
Randolph,  Nelly,  and  an  infant  son;  Middle- 
ton  H. ,  who  married  Clara  .McMurray,  and 
has  one  child,  Vernon,  Bessie  J.;  and  Char- 
lotte ().  Mrs,  Jones  is  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  church. 


II.I.IA.M  l!.\R.\im.l.,  of  I'airville, 
was  born  at  Truro,  N..S.,  March  6, 
iSj;.  In  May,  1.S47,  he  came  to  St.  John 
and  entered  the  employ  of  his  eldest  brother, 
Alexander  Harnhill,  lumberman,  at  the  latter's 
mill  at  Pleasant  Point,  in  which  position  he 
continued  until  b'ebruaiy,  1  cS68.  <  )n  the  3d 
of  l""ebiuary,  1868,  with  his  wife  and  family 
and  several  relatives,  he  sailed  from  .St.  John 
in  the  barcpientine  "Helen,"  bound  for 
Wangaiuii,  New  Zealand,  intending  to  take 
up  his  residence  there.  After  spending  a  few 
months  in  Wanganui,  and  visiting  Welling- 
ton  and   several    other   of   the    then    princi|Xil 


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business  places  of  the  colony,  the  entire  party 
bein^  disappointed  with  llie  bnsini'ss  prospects 
and  dissatisfied  with  the  climate,  returned  to 
New  Urunswiik,  arrivinj;  in  St.  John  on  De- 
cember 23,  i.SoS.  In  March,  1S69,  Mr.  Mam- 
hill  entered  into  partnership  with  Mr.  Will- 
lam  II.  Long,  and  acc|uircd  the  Marble  Cove 
Lumber  Mill  at  the  Falls  .St.  John,  N.H., 
which  was  enlarged  and  operated  by  the  firm 
until  the  dcalii  of  Mr.  Long  in  1878.  The 
business  was  thereafter  continued  by  Mr. 
Harnhill  and  Mr.  William  H.  Murray  (who 
had  for  several  years  been  a  silent  partner) 
until  April.  1881,  when  Mr.  Marnhill  retired 
from  active  business  and  removed  to  l-'airville 
in  the  parish  of  Lancaster,  where  he  now  re- 
sides. Me  retains  his  connection  with  sev- 
eral corporations,  including  the  St.  John  Rail- 
way Company,  of  which  he  has  for  several 
years  been  a  director,  and  is  also  interested  in 
shipping. 

He  married  January  31,  a.u.  1861,  Mary 
1'..,  eldest  (laughter  of  (ieorge  S.  Maker,  for 
many  years  a  prominent  lumberman  anil  mill- 
owner  of  .St.  John  (Newcomb's  (lenealogical 
Recoril).  They  have  two  sons:  William 
I'Vederick  Marnliill,  of  Fairville,  lumberman, 
born  December  14,  1S61,  now  and  for  several 
years  past  one  of  the  representatives  for  the 
parish  of  Lancaster  in  the  Municipal  Council 
of  the  city  and  county  of  St.  John;  and  Alex- 
ander Perley  Marnhill,  M.A.  (Mt.  A.  "85), 
of  St.  John,  barrister  at  law,  born  May  27, 
1863. 

The  following  record  of  the  family  is 
given    in    the    Historical     and     Genealogical 


Record  compiled  by  Thomas  Miller.  Robert 
Marnhill,  a  native  of  Ireland  but  of  Scotch 
descent,  arrived  at  what  is  now  known  as 
McNabs  Island,  Halifax,  .\.S,,  October  <), 
17^)1,  in  the  ship  "Hopewell"  from  DinK'gal, 
Ireland.  In  the  spring  of  1762  he  settled 
at  Chiganois,  N..S. ,  and  became  one  of  the 
grantees  of  the  township  of  Londonderry. 
John,  eldest  son  of  Robert,  born  in  Ireland 
in  1730,  and  his  wife,  Letitia  I  teyarmond, 
were  also  j)assengers  on  the  "Hopewell." 
Alexander,  second  son  of  John  and  Letitia, 
was  born  in  1765,  iitil  in  1787  married  Alice, 
daughter  of  Robert  'n<'  ICsther  Hunter. 
John,  second,  son  of  ;  xandcr  and  Alice, 
was  born  August  j,  179  ul  married  in  1817 
tiie  second  daughter  of  William  and  Mary 
Joyce.  They  were  the  parents  of  four  sons 
ami  three  daughters.  The  sons  were:  Alex- 
ander Marnhill,  of  St.  John,  N'.l!.,  hnnber- 
man :  John  Marnhill,  of  Toronto,  Out.,  mer- 
chant: William  Marnhill,  of  St.  John,  X.  M., 
lumberman;  and  Robert  Marnhill,  of  Truro, 
N.S.,  farmer.  Of  these,  William  Marnhill, 
the  subject  of  the  foregoing  record,  is  the  only 
one  now  living. 


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DI'O.N  KXIC.HT  I'RI'l.SCOlT,  for 
VmJ_  mail)'  years  proniinently  iilentified 
with  the  lumber  anil  real  estate  interests  of 
New  Mrunswick,  was  born  in  I'enntield,  Char- 
lotte County,  N.M. ,  on  the  twelfth  da)'  of  b'eb- 
ruar)',  iSji.  His  mother's  maiden  name  was 
.Sarah  Knight  He  followed  the  lumber  busi- 
ness  successfully   in    the    Mela    River   district 


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fruits  (if  liis  lalxir,  ami  in\ested  \o  a  eonsidcr- 
able  extent  in  real  estate.  He  spent  nnieh 
time  in  readini;-,  anil   was  remarkably  well   in- 


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New  Brunswick,  coming  at  the  same  time  that 
his  son  James  did,  and  for  several  years  after- 
ward conducted  a  jirivate  schv)ol  in  I'rederic- 
toii.  While  there  he  published  problems  in 
the  local  jiaper  that  the  professors  of  the  uni- 
versity could  not  solve,  and  later  he  publislied 
correct  solutior.s  of  the  same. 

James  McLaughlin  was  born  at  Newtown- 
Limavadi,  Ireland,  in  1.S04.  He  received  an 
excellent  education,  and  followed  the  ])rofes- 
sion  of  surveying  until  coming  to  New  Hruiis- 


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came  to  Woodstock  to  ass:ime  the  position  of 
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1876,  soon  ;ittcr  tlic  ilcnlli  of  liis  Idrnicr  0111- 
ploycr,  Mr.  McLaii^'hlin,  in  minpiui)  witli 
K.  15.  Jones,  iiurchased  a  dry-goods  business, 
whicli  they  successfully  conducted  under  the 
firm  name  of  Jones  &  McLaughlin  for  three 
years.  In  1879  Mr.  McLaughlin  bought  tlie 
interest  of  his  paitncr  in  the  establishment, 
and  has  since  carried  on  a  very  successful 
mercantile  business  alone,  his  trade  in  ih\' 
gooils  and  clothing  being  extensive  anil  prdlit- 
able.  He  is  veil  known  tin()u;;hout  tiie  luni- 
munity  as  a  trustworthy  citizen,  n(]t  afraid  to 
assume  rcsjionsibility  if  called  upon,  although 
he  has  refu.sed  to  accept  a  nomination  for  tiic 
office  of  Mayor.  He  has  been  Town  Clerk, 
was  'I'own  Assessor  two  years,  and  for  twche 
years  was  a  niend)er  of  the  Idwu  Council. 
He  is  a  member  of  Woodstock  Lodge,  !■".  iS: 
A.  M.  ;  is  also  a  mendjer  of  the  koyal  Ar- 
canum, Woodstock  Council,  No.  525,  of  which 
he  is  Last  Master;  and  is  treasurer  nf  tlie 
Presbyterian  churcli,  of  wbicli  he  is  a  valucii 
meudier. 

Mr.  McLaugiiiin  married  iXiuiie,  dau;;hter 
of  Moody  Magui re,  of  Woodstock ;  and  of  tiic 
six  ciiildren  that  blessed  their  union  live  are 
now  living,  namely:  Hessie;  Harry;  Roy  and 
(iu\',  twins  ;  and  Amia  M. 


fs^OHN  LI'AVLS  I'l'CK,  a  leading  mer- 
chant of  Hillsboro,  Albert  County, 
N.H.,  is  a  man  of  good  business  knowl- 
edge and  practical  ability,  and  is  closely  iden- 
tified with  the  financial  interests  of  the  town. 
He  was  born  July  6,   1857,  in  the  neighboring 


town  of  Hopewell,  a  son  of  l^lisha  I'eck,  whu 
was  the  third  in  line  of  descent  to  bear  that 
name. 

Elisha  Peck,  first,  was  born  in  the  United 
States,  where  he  resided  until  after  the  close 
of  the  Revolutionary  War.  Peing  an  adherent 
of  the  Crown,  he  then  removetl  with  other 
Loyalists  to  New  Hrunswick,  and,  settling  in 
Albert  County,  took  up  a  tract  ol  land  nearly 
four  miles  in  length,  which  included  the  i)res- 
ent  site  of  the  village  of  Albert.  He  was  one 
of  the  largest  laiulhoklers  of  the  county,  and 
became  one  of  its  foremost  farmers.  He 
reared  eight  children,  I-Ilisha  being  the  name 
given  to  his  second  son. 

Elisha  Peck,  second,  was  born  in  Hope- 
well, where  he  engaged  extensively  in  agri- 
cultural pmsuits  during  his  days  of  activity, 
and  was  also  a  large  dealer  in  real  estate  in  that 
vicinity.  A  wide-awake,  energetic  man,  he 
took  a  deep  interest  in  everything  connected 
with  local  matters,  and  for  years  was  Captain 
of  the  Volunteer  Militia  Company  of  Hope- 
well, and  was  also  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  a 
long  time.  In  politics  he  was  a  Conserva- 
tive. He  married  Sarah,  claughtiT  of  Na- 
thaniel Prewster.  lught  ol  their  children 
grew  to  .adult  life,  and  two  — Judson  N.  and 
Charles  A. —  are  yet  living.  Jndson  X.  mar- 
ried Annie  Turner,  of  Dorchester,  N.P.,  and 
has  five  children  ^  Albert,  l".l  izabeth,  George, 
John,  and  Jane.  Of  Charles  A.  a  biographi- 
cal sketch  may  be  found  on  another  i)age  of 
this  volume.  I^lisha  I'eck,  second,  and  his 
wife  were  members  of  the  Hopewell  liaptist 
Church,  and  both  lived  to  be  well  adv.nued  in 


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years,  she  attaining  the  aj^e  of  seventy-two 
and  he  that  of  eighty-seven. 

Their  son,  Elisha  Peck,  tliinl,  was  born  at 
tlie  parental  homesteail  in  1823,  and  there 
spent  his  entire  life  of  sixty-six  years,  being 
engaged  the  greater  part  of  the  t.me  in  tilling 
the  soil  and  in  adtling  to  the  improvements 
already  inaugurated  on  the  farm.  He  mar- 
ried Rebecca,  daughter  of  Jolm  Lewis,  of 
Ilillsboro.  She  is  now  living  on  the  home 
farm,  an  active  woman  of  sixty-eight  years. 
She  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church,  and  in 
the  daily  walks  of  life  endeavors  to  live  up  to 
its  teachings.  She  bore  her  husband  seven 
children:  Alice,  wife  of  William  R.  Pock,  of 
Hoston,  Mass.;  John  Lewis;  Charles  L.,  who 
married  Lucinda  Mittons,  of  Covcrdale,  N.15., 
and  has  three  children;  William  L. ;  Annie 
R. ;  Ida;  and  Mary  K. 

John  Lewis  Peck  attended  school  in  Hope- 
well until  he  was  fourteen  years  old,  when  he 
came  to  Hillsboro  to  live  with  his  maternal 
grandfather,  John  Lewis,  who  was  jiroprietor 
of  a  store  of  general  merchandise.  Lntering 
the  store  as  a  clerk,  he  remained  in  that  pf)si- 
tion  fourteen  years,  obtaining  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  the  business.  1 1  is  grandfather 
then  took  him  into  partnershii),  and  the  firm 
name  became  John  Lewis  &  Co.  I^'our  years 
later  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  died. 
Mr.  Peck  has  since  continued  tiie  busiTiess 
alone,  and  lias  been  very  successful.  Being 
e'^  Tgetic  and  [irogressive,  and  well  versed  in 
finance,  Mt^  Peck  established  a  private  bank- 
ing concern  in  Hillsboro  on  November  1, 
1897,  and  this  he   is  conducting   in   conjunc- 


tion with  his  other  interests.  He  is  a  hard- 
working man,  self-made  in  every  respect, 
owing  his  ]iresent  prosperity  entirely  to  his 
own  enterprise  and  effort.  Politically,  he  is 
a  firm  sup[)orter  of  the  Conservative  [irinci- 
ples.  Fraternally,  he  is  a  Mason,  belonging 
to  Howard  Lodge,  No.  15,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of 
Hillsboro,  N.I^,  and  is  also  a  member  of  the 
A.  O.  F.  of  Hillsboro. 

M"-.  Peck  and  Minnie  F.,  daughter  of  Chip- 
man  Bishop,  of  Hillsboro,  were  married  on 
August  27,  i<S85,  and  they  have  three  chil- 
dren—  Mary  B.,  George  B. ,  and  F'lora  B. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peck  are  both  menil)ers  of  the 
Baptist  church. 


RTHUR    B.    :\IAC  LEAN,  of  the  A.  B. 

Mac  Lean  Company,  .St.  John,  was 
born  in  l'"redericton,  N.B.,  in  1857, 
sou  of  Lauchlan  and  Sophia  (Marsh)  Mac  Lean. 
His  paternal  grandfather  was  Captain  Jolni 
Mac  Lean,  a  .Scotchman  who  emigrated  to  New 
Brunswick  and  was  one  of  the  first  settler:,  at 
Cirand  Lake,  where  he  engaged  in  farming. 
Captain  .^?ac  Lean  was  a  prominent  man  in 
that  locality  in  his  day,  serving  as  a  magis- 
trate for  a  number  of  years  and  as  an  officer  in 
the  militia.  1  le  li\ed  to  the  advanced  age  of 
ninet\-scven  years. 

Lauchlan  Mac  Lean,  .\rthur  B.  Mac  Loan's 
father,  came  to  .St.  Jt>]in  when  a  young  man, 
and  engaged  in  the  wholesale  flour  business. 
l'"rom  .St.  John  lie  went  to  Portland,  Me., 
wIkmv  he  carried  on  a  wholesale  boot  and  siioe 
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swcpl  awiiy  in  llu'  disastrous  tire  <if  \HC)C>, 
wiiich  consumed  the  entiie  business  pintion  (if 
that  city.  Rcturninj;-  then  to  New  Urunswick, 
lie  spent  the  lest  of  his  life  upon  a  farm  in 
Sussex,  Kin^s  County,  l.auchlan  Mac  Lean 
married  Miss  Marsh,  daujjhter  of  the  late  Jolm 
L.  Marsh,  of  I-'reilcricton.  They  had  tour 
children,  namely:  Colonel  11.  11.  Mae  Lean, 
barrister,  St.  John;  Aithur  J?.,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch;  Maud,  who  resides  in  Canibrid;;e, 
Mass.  ;  antl  Charles  llerbeit,  president  and 
manai^er  of  the  Merchants"  l-',.\c!ianf;e,  Toledo, 
O'  io. 

Arthur  J>.  Mac  Lean  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  h'ledericton,  X.]!.,  and  I'ortland, 
Me.  Mis  business  trainiui;-  was  begun  with 
J.  S.  Mayo,  of  :\Iontreal,  1'.  Q.  ;  and  he  later 
entered  the  employ  of  1'.  \V.  (iregory  &  Co., 
]5(jston,  with  whom  he  remained  until  1S95. 
In  that  year  lie  ]iurchased  their  business  in  tiie 
Maritime  Provinees,  and  established  'lie  A.  H. 
Mac  Lean  Compan)-,  djalers  in  steamship, 
railway,  and  mill  supi)lies,  and  iiroprietors  (pf 
the  "I'^xcelsior  "  branil  of  marine  engine  and 
cylinder  oils.  Tiiey  are  also  agents  foi-  tlic 
Hostou  Helting  ('ompan)'s  rubber  goods,  tiie 
Knowles  &  lUake  steam -pumps,  and  are  carry- 
ing on  an  extensive  business.  This  concern 
has  brancii  offices  in  Hoston  and  Now  \'ork. 

Ml.  Mat'  Lean  married  .Alice  (lanong, 
daughter  <if  John  IC.  (lanong,  of  .St.  J  hn.  ( )f 
this  union  were  horn  two  children  .Sadie  May 
and  John  Ldward.  The  sou  died  at  the  age  of 
five  years  and  six  months.  Mrs.  Mac  Lean 
died  September  19,   1896. 

./Mthough    he   has    resided    in    St.    John    but 


a  short  time,  Mr.  Mac  Lean  has  already  be- 
come a  prominent  factor  in  the  business  inter- 
ests of  the  city,  and  is  a  member  of  the  lioard 
of  Trade,  lie  belongs  to  Albion  Lodge, 
1'.  A.  M.  ;  Carlton  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons;  .St.  John  Commandery,  Knights  Tem- 
plar; and  Kora  Temple  of  the  My.stic  Shrine, 
Lcwiston,  Me. 


IIARLI'S  W.  CI'.ORGL;,  a  well-known 
and  able  agriculturist  of  .Sacivijlc, 
\.B.,  was  born  April  24,  1839,  on 
the  homestead  where  he  now  lives,  :uul  on 
which  his  widowed  mother,  ]\Irs.  Lli/abeth 
h'awcett  Ceorge,  has  resided  since  the  day  of 
her  birth,  October  24,  iSio.  .Mr.  George's 
father,  the  late  James  George,  was  born  at 
a  small  hamlet  on  the  .St.  John  River,  New 
Hiunswick,  being  a  son  of  I'eter  George,  who 
was  born  and  leaied  in  .Scotland.  h'urther 
parental  and  ancestral  history  is  given  in  con- 
nection with  the  sketch  of  William  \'.  George, 
a  brother  of  Charles  \\'.,  on  another  page  of 
this  work. 

Chailes  W.  George  was  the  third  child  and 
second  son  of  the  i)arental  household.  In  com- 
mon with  his  brothers  and  sisters,  he  received 
an  excellent  education,  being  for  some  time  a 
student  in  the  Mount  Allison  Academy,  .Sack- 
ville.  liecoming  gieatly  interested  in  agri- 
cultural jnnsuits  when  he  was  young,  he 
continued  his  resilience  at  the  oltl  homestead, 
which  was  originally  owned  by  his  gi.mdfather, 
William  h'awcett;  and  since  the  death  of  his 
father   in    iSNj   he   has   had    its   entire  charge. 


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His  farm,  which  is  well  inipiovcd  and  well 
stocked,  contains  about  si.\t\-  acres  of  iijiland, 
a  larj^e  tract  of  tinilici"  land,  and  a  hunch'ed 
acres  of  niarsii,  from  uhicii  lie  gathers  large 
crops  of  hay  each  season.  .\  man  (if  wise 
judgment,  eminently  practical  and  energetic, 
he  is  one  of  the  iirominent  farmers  of  the  com- 
nuinit\-  in  which  he  li\-es,  and  is  held  in  high 
rej;ard  as  a  man  and  as  a  titi/en. 

Ml'.  (leorge  has  been  twice  married.  His 
first  wife,  whose  maiden  name  wis  liattie 
Cohiirn,  died  in  early  womanhood,  leaving;  one 
child,  liattie,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  Wilbur 
Turner,  of  I'ort  I'.lgin,  N.J?. ,  and  has  three 
children  — Herbert,  l.i/.zie,  and  Margaret. 
Mr.  George  afterward  married  l-',li/abeth  Hur- 
pee,  b\-  whom  he  has  six  children;  namely, 
l-;dgar  ]!. ,  C:iarence  J.,  Amelia  M. ,  Lharles 
Ashley,  Chesley  C,  and  Margaret  1^.  In  pol- 
itics Mr.  Cicorge  is  a  Liberal,  but  is  not  active 
in  part\'  matters.  He  and  all  the  members  of 
his  famih'  belong  to  the  ;\Tethodi>t  church. 


-O.SIAII  IX)\\'I.I;R,  manufactnrer  of  car- 
riage-building materials,  .St.  John,  and 
a  \eteran  nf  the  Ci\il  War  in  the 
L'nitetl  .States,  was  horn  in  I'rcnch  X'illage, 
Kings  Ciiunty,  \.  H. ,  November  24,  iS.v. 
His  father  was  Josiah  i''owler,  a  farmer,  and 
his  grandfather,  (iabriel  h'owler,  who  came 
from  New  \'cirk  to  New  Ihunswick  with  other 
Loyalists  in  1  7.S  v 

When  sixteen  \  ears  old,  voting  I'"owler  left 
his  father's  farm  and  went  to  Walpole,  Mass., 
where  he   found   employment    in  a  shovel  aiul 


axle  factory.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the  Re- 
bellion he  took  sides  with  the  Nortii,  and  en- 
listed in  the  l-'ort_\ -fouith  Kcginu'iil,  INIassa- 
chusetts  \'iilunteer  Infanti}',  with  which  he 
served  until  honorably  discharged  in  iS6.(. 
Coming  to  .St.  John,  he  established  himself  as 
a  manufacturer  of  sjirings  and  axles  an.i  edge- 
tools,  a  business  which  he  is  still  tari\ing  on 
successfnllv,  em|)lo\ing  an  average  force  (if 
thirty  workmen. 

In  1)^63  Mr.  Lowler  was  joined  in  inaiiiage 
with  I'ersis  M.  Hlake,  his  tirst  wife,  wlm  was 
a  nati\e  of  l'"ranklin,  Mass.  .She  died  in 
1877,  leaving  one  danghter,  Idella  M.,  who  is 
now  the  wife  of  A.  1).  liarbcr,  nf  .St.  John. 
In  iSiSq  he  married  for  his  second  wife  .\nnie 
R.  Rankin,  daughter  of  Alexander  Rankin, 
formerly  of  the  linn  of  'I'.  Rankin  6i:  .Sous. 
The  chiklreii  of  this  union  are:  Ulanchartl, 
(ireta.  Aline,  Andrew  I!  ,  and  Ronald  R. 
h'owler. 

Mr.  I'owlcr  belongs  to  the  Masonic  order 
and  the  Sons  of  Temperance.  lie  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Congregational  church.  1 1  is  busi- 
ness ability  has  enabled  him  to  ac(|uire  a 
financial  success,  and  as  a  cili/eii  he  is  liiglil}' 
esteemed  for  his  many  sterling  (|Ualities. 


■^y^J  ROMl'HM'  MARSHALL,  a 
prominent  insurance  man  of  .St. 
John,  X.Ii.,  was  born  in  I'ictoii 
Cininty,  Nova  Scotia,  April  27,  1N52,  a  son 
of  Alexander  McNanghton  Marshall  and  his 
wife,  I'Mizabeth  Crockett,  grand-danghter  of 
James    Johnscm,    of    Triiro,     \..S.      He     is    a 


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j;rcat-grniKls()n  ol  Rolioit  Marshall,  l^sc]., 
jjenerally  known  as  Deacon  Marshall,  who 
oniijjratuil  from  Dumfries,  Scotland,  to  i'ic- 
tou,  N.S.,  in  1773.  On  Au!,aist  26,  1783, 
Deacon  Rolicrt  Marshall  received  a  grant  of 
three  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  laml  at  Mid- 
dle River,  in  I'ictou  County,  Nova  Scotia. 
John  Crockett,  of  Dumfries,  Scotland,  wiio 
emigrated  to  I'ictou,  N.S.,  in  1783,  and  who 
was  the  maternal  grandfather  of  the  subject 
of  this  sketch,  received  at  the  same  time  a 
grant  of  live  hundred  acres  of  land,  also  in  the 
county  of  I'ictou,  N.S. 

The  Johnson  branch  of  the  family  emigrated 
in  1756  from  Londonderry,  Ireland,  to  New 
Hampshire.  James  Johnson,  Mr.  Marshall's 
great-grandfather,  in  1761  removed  from  New 
1  ■Jig land  to  Truro,  N..S, ,  and  became  a  sharer 
in  a  land  grant  of  eighty  thousand  acres 
divided  among  about  seventy  settlers,  all  from 
the  New  Mngland  States.  This  grant  included 
the  whole  township  of  Truro.  The  names  of 
James  ami  John  Johnson  appear  in  a  record  of 
the  grant,  signed  by  Governor  Wilmot. 

Robert  Marshall  was  educated  in  the 
grammar  school  at  Chatham,  N.H.  lie  was 
subsequently  employed  as  an  accountant  and 
conlidential  clerk  by  the  well-known  mercan- 
tile, lumbering,  and  ship-building  firm  of 
Johnson  iS:  Mackie,  of  (.Chatham,  Miramichi. 
Ill  the  month  of  April,  1859,  he  removed  to 
.St.  John,  li  iving  been  appoii.ted  accountant  of 
the  now  Intercolonial  Railway,  then  known 
as  the  luiropcan  &  North  American  Railway. 
While  holding  this  position  he  organizeil  a 
system   of    returns  and  accounts,    [jreparcd  as 


the  result  of  a  personal  inspection  of  the  vari- 
ous systems,  then  prevailing,  of  railways  in 
the  United  States  and  Western  Canada.  In 
icS6fS  he  established  in  St.  John  a  general 
agency  for  fire,  life,  and  marine  insurance, 
and  now  represents  at  61  Prince  William 
Street,  Imperial  Huilding,  St.  John,  N.H., 
the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  New 
\'ork,  as  agent  and  cashier.  This  comiiany, 
of  which  Jacob  A.  Johnson,  Ivsc|.,  of  Halifax, 
N.  .S,,  is  general  manager  for  the  Maritime 
Provinces  of  Canada,  and  also  for  the  colony 
of  Newfoundland,  is  the  largest  mutual  life 
insurance  com|)any  known  to  history.  It  is 
the  largest  insurance  corporation  in  the  world, 
with  assets  exceeding  two  hundretl  and  ninety 
million  dollars,  and  has  taken  first  rank  as  a 
life  insurance  and  bond  investment  company 
in  Canada. 

Mr.  Marshall  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  New  Brunswick  Sanatorium,  and  is  also  a 
Notary  Public  for  the  i)rovince  and  Justice  of 
the  Peace  of  the  county  of  Kings  and  of  the 
city  and  county  of  .St.  John,  being  the  only 
dual  magistrate  in  the  province.  He  is  the 
author  of  several  papers,  among  them  one  on 
the  subject  of  the  "Canadian  System  of  Clas- 
sification and  Inspection  of  .Ship[)ing,"  1868, 
several  suggestions  contained  in  which  were 
acted  ujion  by  the  Dominion  government;  one 
on  the  subject  of  "Deck  Loads,"  which  re- 
ceived consideration  by  the  Dominion  ministry, 
and  on  the  recommendation  of  h^arl  Kimberly 
several  suggestions  contained  in  which  have 
since  been  made  statutory;  a  [laper  on  "I'ire 
and  Life  Insurance,"  read  at  Ottawa   in    1875, 


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while  cliairniaii  of  a  committee  o[  the  Domin- 
ion Hoard  of  'I'rade;  and  one  in  1S74,  also 
read  before  tlie  Dominion  I?oanl  of  Trade,  at 
Ottawa,  on  tfie  subject  of  "Canadian  Tonnage 
and  I'limsoll's  Hill,"  in  which  he  claimed  for 
the  port  of  St.  John,  N.  H. ,  at  tliat  time  the 
fourth  place  in  gross  amount  of  tonnage,  and 
more  tonnage,  measured  by  population,  than 
any  other  i)ort  in  the  liritish  i-jnpire.  Mr. 
Marshall  was  in  1879  a  member  of  the  first 
Hoard  of  Commissioners  of  the  luesent  Pro- 
vincial I'i.xhibition  Organization  of  .St.  John, 

Mr.    Marshall   married   first   .September   27, 
1855,    Anna    Matilda,    daughter   of    the    late  | 
George   Henderson,    Ivsip,    merchant,  of  New- 
castle,   Miramichi.       She    died    at    Chatham,   1 
Miramichi.  in  1856.     He  married  for  his  sec-  , 
ond    wife,    June    16,    i8fi^,    Charlotte    Neill,   | 
(laughter  of  the  late  Captain   Thomas  Rees,  of 
.St.  John,  N.n.,  and  grand-daughter  of  James 
Shand,    Ksq.,  of    Montrose.  County  .Vberdecu, 
Scotland. 

Mr.  Marshall  is  an  e.x-Commissioner  of  the 
General  Tublic  Hosjiital  of  St.  John,  ex- 
chairman  of  tlie  commissioners  of  the  abattoir 
for  city  and  county  of  St.  John,  a  director 
and  life  member  of  the  Highland  .Society  of 
New  Hrunswick;  trustee  ot  .St.  Andrew's  Pres- 
byterian Church  of  St.  John;  director  of  the 
Protestant  Or[)lian  Asylum  o;  St.  John,  hirst 
Lieutenant  of  the  Second  Hattalion  of  the  .St. 
John  Light  Infantry,  a  life  member  of  the 
\.  M.  C.  A.  of  -St.  John,  and  ex-president 
of  St.  Andrew's  .Society  of  St.  John.  A 
prominent  Free  Mason,  he  was  created  on 
June  4,    1870,   a   .Sovereign   Grand    Inspector- 


general,  or  thirty-third  degree  Mason,  by 
.Supreme  Council  of  the  .Scottish  Rite  of  I''ng- 
land.  He  is  a  director  of  the  New  Hrunswick 
Masonic  Hall  Company,  and  assisted  in 
founding  the  higher  grades  of  I'Vee  Masonry 
throughout  the  province.  He  at  |)resent 
r.mks  as  follows:  Past  (irand  Master,  (irand 
Lodge  of  N' w  Hrunswick;  Past  Deputy 
Ctrand  High  Priest,  (irand  Chapter  of  New 
Hrunswick;  Past  Provincial  Prior  Sovereign, 
Great  Priory  of  Canada;  Past  Lieutenant 
(irand  Commander,  A.  iSt  A.  .S.  Rite,  Canada; 
Grand  Cross  of  the  Red  Cross,  Rome  and  Con- 
stantine:  Imperial  (irand  Council  of  Lngland; 
I'rov.  J.  G.  Warden,  Royal  Order  of  Scotland; 
Kora  Temple,  A.  A.  ( ).  M.  .S.,  Order  I^astern 
Star;  Swedenhorgian  Rite,  and  at  present 
holds  the  positions  of  Most  Puissant  Grand 
Master  of  the  Suiireme  (irand  Council  of  the 
Cryptic  Rite  of  I'Vee  Masonry  of  the  Maritime 
I'rovinces  of  Canada,  whose  (iranil  is  ICast 
at  the  city  of  St.  John.  N.H.  Mr.  Marshall 
is  also  an  Or.mgeman  and  a  member  of 
Pioneers"    Lodge  of    OM   I'd  lows. 

In  1874  Mr.  Marshall  offered  as  an  in- 
dependent candidate  lor  the  city  ol  .St.  John 
on  .1  platform,  peculiarly  his  own,  holiling 
that  in  the  New  Hrunswick  school  law,  with- 
out destroying  the  princi])le  of  ncm-sectarian 
free  schools,  modifications  might  be  made 
which,  while  doing  no  wrong  to  Prote;  tants, 
W(juld  be  acceptable  to  the  Ronvn  Catholic 
portion  of  the  community.  On  this  issue  he 
was  defeated,  but  in  1876  he  was  elected,  and 
then  the  very  modifications  pro|)osed  and  recom- 
mended bv  him  were   made,  resulting    in    gen- 


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'43 


era)  harmony,  proviiif^  satisfactory,  in  j^oncral, 
to  both  Catliolics  anil  I'rotcstants.  In  LS/f) 
Mr.  Marshall  was  el-^cteil  to  the  Provincial 
Legislature,  Init  nwin;^  to  a  conte:it  over  the 
election  he  resigned  his  seat,  lie  was  at  once 
re-elected  hy  acclamation,  and  he  was  also 
elected  lor  a  secoiul  term  of  four  years,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  I'Vaser-Wedderburn  gov- 
ernment of  tlie  Province  of  New  Urunswick 
until  his  retirement  from  jiotitics  in  the  year 
1882.  In  the  year  1881  tiie  I'rince  of  Wales 
created  the  Hon.  Robert  Marshall  by  patent 
a  Knight  Commander  of  the  Temple.  Of  this 
order  Her  Majesty,  the  (Jueen.  is  Grand  Pa- 
tron. Mr.  Marshall  was  treasurer  in  1865  of 
the  Confederation  Association  of  New  Hruns- 
wick,  located  at  tlie  city  of  St.  John,  James  R. 
Ruel,  ]'>S(|..  ])resent  Collector  of  Customs  of 
the  city  of  .St.  John,  N.H.,  being  president. 
He  took  an  active  and  determined  part  in  the 
elections  of  1865  and  of  1866,  which  brought 
about  the  Confederation  of  1867.  Mr.  Mar- 
shall is  a  Liberal  of  the  Joseph  Howe,  Tilley, 
and  Fisher  school  of  politics  wlio  aimed  at 
responsible  government  by  the  people  for  '.ne 
people. 


«  m»mt 


lOHlCRT  COLl'ITT.S,  a  prosperous  and 
lirogressive  agricuitui  ist  of  Coverdale, 
Albert  County,  N.15. ,  was  born  June 
2,  1830,  on  the  farm  which  he  now  occu]iies. 
He  is  a  .son  of  the  late  Lazarus  Coljiitls. 

William  Colpitis,  falher  of  La/arus,  was 
born  in  Newcastb',  Lngland,  wlience  lie  emi- 
grated with  bis  parents  to  New  Jkunswick. 
He  subsequently  settled    in    Coverdale,  where 


he  cleared  and  improved  a  homestead,  on  which 
he  lived  anil  labored  until  his  death.  .Soon 
after  taking  up  his  abode  in  Coverdale,  he 
married  l-Mizabeth  Cummings,  who  was  born 
ill  (iermany.  They  became  the  paieiils  of 
se\'en  ciiildren,  of  whom  La/arus  was  the  tliird 
in  order  of  birth. 

Lazarus  Colpitis  was  ixirn  on  tlie  home  farm 
and  was  tiiere  trainetl  to  farming  pursuits. 
Learning  the  trades  of  tanner  and  shoemaker, 
he  worked  at  these  occuiialions  parts  of  each 
year,  continuing  his  residence  at  the  home- 
stead and  carrying  on  the  farm  successfully 
until  a  few  \ears  prior  to  his  death,  wlien  be 
retired  to  Moncton.  He  married  Jane  Col- 
pitis, a  cousin,  by  wiiom  he  had  five  children, 
namely;  Roliert,  the  special  subject  of  this 
skelci) ;  William  W.  ;  Joiui  K.  ;  Roland;  and 
lleiuy  H.  La/arus  Colpitis  dieil  at  the  age 
of  si.\ty-si.\  years,  and  his  widow  at  the  age  of 
seventy-six  years.  Both  were  members  of  the 
Methodist  church. 

Roberl  Colpitis  ac(|uired  iiis  early  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  Coverdale,  and  having 
succeedeil  to  the  owneiship  of  the  farm  which 
his  grandfather  reclaimeil  from  the  wilderness, 
and  on  which  his  father's  active  years  were 
spent,  he  has  devoted  his  entire  time  lo  its 
management.  1  le  lias  given  attention  to  vari- 
ous branches  of  general  farming,  and  has  made 
many  substantial  improvements  on  the  estate. 
Ill  [lolitics  he  is  iiulependent,  voting  for  the 
best  men  and  measures,  irrespective  of  jiarty 
relations. 

(^11  March  30.  1857,  Mr.  Colpitis  married 
Hannah    A.    Read,    jf    Moncton,    N.]{.      Four 


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lUOC.RAI'llUAI,    KKVIKW 


L-hilil 


roll  wore  liorn 


to  th 


0111,  a  IK 


1  til 


roo  ;iro  now 


living;  nanioly,  Clifton  K.,  Cohort  C,  ant! 
Minnio.  Mrs.  Colpitis  diod  at  llio  ago  of 
tillv-thioo    voar: 


I  So  I,  (Hod   in   iH^C}.     Slio  was  the  mother  of 
ten  childron;  namely,  William,   John,    Itonry 


Wit 


ouisa. 


Ohadiah,    Sarah,  Wil- 


Sho   was   a    Inn-    Christian      niotii,  John  Doaii,  and  Jaiio  I'oshay.      W'illia 


a    niornhrr    cil    tho    Moliindist    tiiini 
.h  Mr.  Cdliiitts  al-o  1)o1oiil;s. 


h,    t. 


ni, 


wh 


o  was  I"' 


n   Soptonilior    lo,   iSoJ,  let  I   home 


H'ard   from. 


Joh 


n  (lied   in   in- 


and  was 

fancy.      .     my  Wiggins,  who  was  born  January 

1,^   iSof),  went   from   St.  Jd'n    to   Woodstock, 


ater  roniowd  to  i'lirds 


I'oint,  wliero  he 


L'ligagc 


fa 


and    tanniiii. 


IK 


was 


I    man    ol     more    than    ordinary    intolligeiuo 


nil    in    this    i  it\',    Oitnljir    jc),     i  ,s  r 


Hi 


111 


0  served  two  terms  in   the 


I  [ous 


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sscni  ■ 


ents  wore  ( Ihadiah  and  Sarah  (Dean)  I'urdy.      bly  of  Now  Hiiiiiswiol<, 


par 


His  laliior 


is  an  ardent  sup 


hon 


Now    N'orlv,  in    177; 
^'ork  .State,   I'ehruai 


1    in   Westchester  Ciuinty,      porter  of  the 'I'dry  party.      Ho  died  in  St.  John, 

Louisa,  who  was  horn  No- 


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hi-   nmilu'r    in 
I7f^''>- 


I'el 


el)ruar\ 


1  S,Si 


His  jiaternal  grandparents,  (iilbort  and 
I'Llizabeth  (Ogdon)  I'urd)-,  won-  natives  of 
Wostciiester  County;  and  the  Ininier  tnnk  an 
active  part  on  the  Dritish  side  in  the  American 
Revolution.  .\t  the  close  of  the  war,  in  17S3, 
(irandfather  I'lirdy  came  witii  his  family  to 
\cw  lirunswick,  and  received  a  grant  of  land 
in  .St.  Jiihn.  I. ate  in  life  lie  removed  to 
ruiiK's  I'diiit.  l.nii.g  lieacJi,  whore  he  died  in 
April,  1SJ5,  aged  eight)-rue  years,  his  wife's 
death  nccurring  October  33,  1S30,  at  the  age 
of  niiK'tv.  He  JKid  live  children;  namel\', 
'riioiiKis,  Wilmiith,  Jiiiiathaii,  Joseph,  and  Oba- 
diah. 

()l)adiali  I'urds,  John  Heaii  I'lirdy's  father, 
was  six  years  nld  when  his  parents  came  to  .St. 
John.  When  a  voiing  man  he  engaged  in  the 
lishiiig  iiulustrv,  ■.nd  later  he  became  a  pros- 
jierous  tisli  dealer.  He  died  in  1X36.  His 
wife,  Sarah,  whom   he   married    November   20, 


vi'mher    _•: 
I  lardenbro 


I  SoS, 


larried  Cajitain  Thomas 
ik.  She  died  July  S,  !<SC)5.  Ann 
was  born  J;inuaiy  2(),  iSio,  and  died  May  31, 
1856.  ('  M;ih,  Jr.,  w;is  born  August  19, 
i8i3,  a:  1  July  22,  1883.      Ho  was  as.so- 

ciated  iu  ,  ess  with  his  brother,  Henry  W. , 
at  riird\'s  roiiil.  Sarah  was  born  -August  8, 
1814,  and  dii'd  in  inf;ii)cy.  Wilmoth,  who  was 
born  September  3,  1815,  residi'd  with  her 
brothers  at  I'lirds's  I'oint,  and  died  in  St. 
John,  .\ugust  jS,  1893.  J,ino  I'oshay,  who 
was  horn  January  I,  l8jci,  married  Captain 
Albert  Iktts,  Hecember  j8,  1838,  and  reared 
three  sons  and  twci  daughters. 

John  Dean  I'urdy  was  educated  in  .St.  John. 
At  an  early  ago  he  began  life  as  clerk  in 
a  mercantile  establishment,  and  hiter  engaged 
in  that  line  on  his  own  account.  He  met  with 
several  se\ore  losses  by  tire,  but  b\'  persever- 
ance built  up  a  largo  and  iirosperous  business. 
Ho   was    intorested    in    shipiiing,   and   was   the 


! 


■!      |l 


niOCK.M'IIICAI,    KKVIKW 


IS 


(iwiRT  lit  a  ll(.ci  (ii  M'ssols.  JaniKiry  jS,  1870, 
1k'  sailed  for  l.ivciponl  on  tlic  ill-fatcil  stcanici-, 
"City  i>f  liiistdii,"  and  ncviT  rcluincd. 

( )n  I)iC(.'ml)cr  J4,  1844,  Mr.  I'nrdy  was 
united  in  niarriage  with  llannili  Amelia  Stick- 
ni'y,  daiif;litor  ot  Captain  Saniiud  Stickncy,  wiio 
was  boin  in  St.  .SluplK'n,  N.H.,  and  was  a  ilc- 
scrndanl  ot  an  idd  New  I'.n^laiid  taniiiy. 
'I'JK-y  iiad  join'  sons  and  fonr  daughters,  nanicl)  : 
l'",niiiy  Rct'd,  wlin  was  hoin  NdvunilRT  it, 
1S45,  and  died  .Nuyust  9,  i'^47;  I.ninsa,  l)oii) 
Sc|itcnilici-  17,  1S47,  dii'd  May  22,  I  Sru  ; 
William  llcniy,  Ixiin  Si.|)ti.'nd)i.'i-  11,  iS4(j; 
(ieor;;o,  burn  November  2",  1S51,  who  resides 
at  VVickhani,  (jneens  Cmmty;  Alice  Wilmutb. 
born  Januaiy  24,  1S54;  John  l)ean,  Jr.,  bom 
jnly  20,  1S57;  Maud  May,  who  was  born  Se[)- 
teniber  23,  iHCjo,  and  died  Jannar\-  25,  1862; 
and  W'allei  (){;den,  who  was  boi  n  June  2^, 
I  ,S62.      Alice    Wilmoth    l'urd}\    who    married 

onard    Arthm-   Tillev    (son    of    Sir    Leonard 


'1 


•y)    on    Aj 


I, 876,    died    in    Aiken, 


S.C.,  b'ebriiary  ''>,  i8,Si,  leavini;  two  children 
—  I.ama  b'.ilith  II.  Tilley  and  a  son  who  died 
in  intancy.  John  Dean  I'nrdv,  Jr.,  who  is 
with  the  James  I'ender  C(im|)any  (Limited), 
mariied  November  20,  iSSS,  Katie  Ida  Leon- 
ard, ot  St.  John.  She  died  Jamiar\  25,  iSij^, 
leavinj.;  one  daughter  -— Dorothy  Wilmoth 
I'urdv.  Walter  ( );;(len  I'nid}',  who  is  secre- 
larv  anil  treasurer  of  the  James  I'ender  Com- 
pany, married  January  16,  i.S.S^,  Hertha  May 
Mills.  She  died  May  2y,  iS<)i,  havini;-  had 
one  child,  who  ilied  in  intanc\-.  William 
Henry  J'urdv  was  brou<;ht  uji  in  .St.  John.  lie 
wa.s  educated  at  the  Colleijiate  -Sthool,  Wind- 


sor, N.  S. ,  and  after  the  de.ith  of  his  father 
took  (hai|;e  of  his  .slii|)pin;{  interests.  In  tS.S2 
he  was  appointed  Shipping  Master  for  the  port 
of  .St.  John.  On  June  19,  1872,  he  married 
Jeiniii'  Durant  .Sancton,  dau;;hter  of  IIi'nr\  I'. 
and  Maria  (Duiant)  .Sancton.  He  has  h.id 
foui  I  hildren  :  lb  unswick  .Sancton  ;  John  Dean; 
Maurice  M.  ( ).  I'urdy ;  and  William  II..  Jr., 
who  died  iti  infanc)'. 

.Mr.  John  Dean  I'mdy'.^  widow,  who  still 
survives  and  is  lesidin;;  in  .St.  John,  is  now  in 
her  seventv-ninth  \ear. 


\m)ni.l.l.\.M  II.  II.\\W.\KD,  formerly 
Y^V^  one  of  the  leading  merchants  of  .St. 
John,  was  born  in  .Susse.v,  N'.li, ,  in  1S29,  son 
<if  William  D,i\id  Hayward.  Reaied  <in  a 
farm,  he  received  bis  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  nal  i\'e  town.  In  1832  he  came 
to  .St.  John,  and  entered  into  partnership  with 
the  late  \\  Miam  Warwick  as  dealer  in  crockery 
and  china  wari',  their  house  being  located  on 
Prince  William  .Street,  near  (.Hiubbs's  Corner. 
The  liim  I'ontimied  in  iiusiness  until  1870, 
when  .Mr.  I  lay  ward  bounht  out  his  partner  and 
for  seven  years  thereafter  conducted  the  busi- 
ness alone,  until  he  was  burned  out  in  the 
great  lire  of  1877.  'I'hen  he  removed  to  85 
I'rincess  .Street,  where  be  subseiiuently  con- 
ducted it,  and  where  it  is  now  cariied  on  b\' 
his  son,  II.  I'.  Hayward.  A  man  of  e.\emplarv 
enter|iri.se,  and  moremer  of  the  strictest  integ- 
rit_\',  he  liuilt  up  the  largest  traile  of  its  kind 
in  the  Maritime  Provinces. 

.Mr.   I  layward  married  Miss  Augusta   Parlee, 


ij* 


146 


BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


(laughter  of  Zachariali  I'.irloe,  of  Sussex,  and 
of  Loyalist  (Icsccnt,  aiul  by  tliis  union  had  one 
son.  Harvey  V.  Hayward.  Mi'.  Ilayward  was 
trustee  n|  tlie  Centenary  .Melliodist  Cluneh  of 
.St.  Jolni  for  many  years.  His  death,  vhieii 
oecurred  Septenilier  ;,.  1  SgS.  was  tiie  result  of 
an  aceidenl. 

IIakvi.n  r.  H  w  u  AKi)  was  biiin  in  .St.  John, 
Ma\  Ji.  i.Sr>o.  He  reeei\ed  liis  e(hu'ation 
in  ilie  granunar  selioul  of  tiiat  eity  and  at 
.SaekviUe  (_"idlege.  .\fiei-  leaving  selioid  he 
entered  the  store  of  liis  father,  and  on  his 
fatiier's  death  sucieedeil  to  the  nianageinent  of 
l!v:  business.  He  was  niarrietl  in  rSS^  to 
Miss  Annie  I'.,  .\nder.son.  a  daughtei'  of  J.  M. 
Anderson,  anil  of  .Seottish  descent.  Mr.  I  I.n- 
ve\-  r.  Hayward  antl  his  wife  aie  the  parents 
of  three  children. 


|7?iT"^'  CH.\KLi:S  1-ISH1;R,  lor  many 
vears  a  Justice  of  th.e  .Supreme  CJuut 
anil  piominenth  identitied  with  the 
Liberal  p;utv  of  New  Ihunswick,  was  born  in 
Fredericton,  September  [0,  1 S  1  n.  He  was  a 
son  of  I'eter  l^'isber,  who  was  a  native  of  the 
State  of  New  Jer>e\,  iiut  of  ("leiinan  origin. 

I'eter  h'isher  and  his  f.illur  were  Loyalists 
during  the  Re\<dut  ionar_\'  War,  and  in  17^.1 
they  settled  in  New  Ihunswick.  I'eter  1'  isher, 
known  as  the  author  of  a  history  of  New  Mruns- 
wiek,  was  [nv  many  \ears  a  jironiineiU  hunber 
meichant  of  l'"redi  ■  iclon.  He  reared  .1  family 
of  six  sous,  one  of  whom,  L.  !'.  I-"isher,  (j.  C, 
was  M'lyor  of    \\'o<idstock    from    its   nicorpura- 


;  tion    as    a    citv    in     1856    to    i,S,So,    when    he 

'         ■         1 
resigneif 

Charles  {''isher  was  among  ilie  lusl  ahunni 
of  King's  Cidlege,  l'"reilerictiiu,  from  which  he 
i;raduated  in  i.Sj().  He  rcid  law  with  Jiidge 
Cr.  !•'.  .Street,  then  Advocate-general  of  the 
pro\ince,  was  admitted  as  an  altoiney  at 
Hilary  term  in  iS;;i,  and  as  barrister  at 
.Mii'haelmas  term  in  iS^^,  in  tlu'  meantime 
having  spent  a  \ear  in  Lngland  at  one  of  t!ie 
iinis  of  t'oiut.  Commencing  the  pr'iclice  of 
his  profession  in  h'rederieton,  he  rapidly  ad- 
\aneed.  lie  unsuceessfullv  ran  an  election  for 
a  seat  in  the  Ilousi'of  ,\ssemblies  in  1X^4,  but 
three  )'ears  later,  at  an  election  brough.t  about 
bv  the  death  of  King  William  I\'. .  he  was  re- 
turned as  one  of  tlu'  four  Kepresentati\  es  to 
the  House  foi'  ^'ol'k  County.  He  was  again 
elected  in  1^)4;,  and  from  that  time  until  his 
elevation  to  tlie  bench  be  w.is  an  inlbienlial 
factor  ill  jirovincial  |)iditics.  In  L'ehruar\', 
I(S4J,  he  took  a  le.iding  i)art  in  the  debate 
relative  to  surri'iidering  certain  rights  into  the 
liands  of  the  I'ixecutive  Couiicil,  and  in  1H54 
he  was  called  u|)on  to  form  a  new  ;;o\  ei  iimi'iit, 
of  which  he  bi'came  the  leader,  with  S.  L. 
Tillev,  A.  J.  .Smith,  and  John  M.  Johnsmi  as 
associates.  'Ibis  was  tbi'  liisl  puiel\  Liber. il 
administration  found  in  the  province.  In  1.S50 
and  I  >! 5  I  he  was  defeated  b}'  the  Hon.  Charh'S 
Mcl'herson. 

In  1.S52  he  was  appointed  our  of  the  com- 
missioners to  conscdidate  and  lodiU  the  stat- 
utes, and  iiupiire  into  the  procei'diiigs  ol  the 
Cmirts  of  Law  and  l''.i|uity  and  thi'  Law  of 
I'^'idence,  the  result  of   which    is   embodied    in 


■;u 

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several  volumes  issued  in  1.S56.  In  1851')  lie 
was  again  returned  to  tlie  Assembly,  and  the 
lollowinj,'  \ear  was  for  tlie  second  tiiiK-  le- 
i|nesU'd  b_\'  the  I.ieuleiiant  (icixeinur  to  I'lirni  a 
new  adniinistiat  inn.  HI  this  lie  heianie  the 
Attorney -general,  and  remained  at  ils  head 
until  iSf)i,  wlien  lie  iesii;ned,  uwiii;^  tn  eei'- 
tain  c|uesti(iiis  aiisini;  as  to  the  management  nf 
tlie  erown  lands.  In  rnmpany  with  the  lion. 
Joim  l^oljertsoii  he  went  to  luigland  in  the 
interest  of  ])ron'oliny  i)etter  lailroad  faeilities 
for  the  province,  and  succeeded  in  arranging 
a  contract  for  the  cnnstinction  nf  the  line  from 
St.  John  to  Siiediac.  lie  was  triumphant  in 
the  general  election  nf  1862,  hut  experienced 
an  overwhelming  defeat  in  Januaix,  1865, 
upon  the  issue  of  Canadian  confederation, 
which  he  favored.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the 
(Juebec  conference  in  \XC>4,  represented  I'n'd- 
ericton  at  the  Uetroit  convention  in  1X65,  and 
was  one  of  the  delegates  sent  to  b'.ngland  in 
i.Sfif)  for  the  purpo.se  of  lompleting  airange- 
ments  f(U"  uniting  the  provinces. 

In  iSr)S  his  political  .ser\  ices  were  rewaided 
by  his  elevation  to  the  l;ciuh,  he  being  ap- 
pointed a  Justice  nf  the  Supreme  Court  and  a 
Judge  of  the  Court  i>\  Divorce  and  Mat/inm 
nial  Causes.  .\s  a  con.st  itulional  law\er  he 
stood  pre-eminent,  and  previous  to  becoming  a 
Judge  he  favored  laws  which  have  since  been 
passed,  and  whose  I'nactment  was  tn  his  keen 
perceptinn  siini)l\  a  ipK'stion  of  lime.  .\s  a 
legislator  he  has  left  a  I  road  and  indrlible 
mark  U|)on  tlu'  statuti'  books  ol  the  province, 
and  as  a  [lolit ician  he  was  an  honest,  consist- 
ent  Liberal   from  first  to  last,  free  from  vin- 


dictiveness  and  above  all  ardently  devoted  to 
Ills  country  and  especially  to  his  native  jirov- 
ince.  lie  declined  to  accept  the  Chii'f  Jus- 
ticeship on  account  of  jiarty  iiitei'csts,  and 
twice  I'cfused  the  appointment  of  Lieutenant 
(invernnr.  He  received  the  ilegiee  of  Doctor 
n\'  Ci\il  Law  from  his  ccdlege  in  \H6C),  and  for 
liis  services  in  behalf  ui  the  Canadian  confed- 
eratinn  he  was  awarded  two  medals,  one  of  silver 
and  anotlic"'  of  bron/e.  He  enjoved  the  re- 
markable distinition  of  lia\ing  no  personal 
enemies,  and  those  who  antagonizeil  him  in 
politics  admiied  and  respected  him  as  a  man. 
Judge  I'"isliei'  died  at  his  Iioiik'  in  I'redericton, 
December  .S,  iHSo,  and  it  may  be  said  that  his 
desire  to  leave  the  impressions  of  liis  mind 
upon  the  institutions  of  his  countr\-  was  fully 
realized. 

On  .September  S,  1X^5,  Judge  I'lsher  mar- 
1  ied  Amelia,  seventh  daughter  of  David  Hat- 
field, a  representati\e  of  an  old  i'jiglisb  fani- 
il_\and  a  Loyalist  who  c.imc  finm  W-w  York 
to  Now  Hrunswick  afli.a-  the  .\meiican  KeV(du- 
tion.  She  became  the  niotliei'  of  foui'  sons  and 
four  daughters,  of  whom  two  daughti'is  ai'e 
living.  Jane  .M.  I'.,  w  idow  nf  the  Hnn.  J.  J. 
I-'rasei',  resides  .it  b'arraline  I'lace,  and  l''rances 
.\melia  lives  at   .Simimcr  X'illa. 


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UKiuber  of  the  llini  of  Iirnck  iS:  I'ater- 
-on.  wholesale  Miillinerv  and  fancy 
di\  goods,  .St.  John,  was  born  in  K  innesswncid, 
Scotland,  January  iS,  1S4.S.  son  of  Robert  antl 
Margaret    (Low)    I'atcrson.      He    received    his 


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t'(liic;iti(in  ill  llio  sdiouls  of  lii.s  nalixe  iiarish. 
Sul).se(|Uc'nlly  he  lH'j;nii  his  api)r(.'ntii.'(.'sliiii  to 
tlic  (hy-j,f(i<){i.s  business,  scrxiiij;  four  years  at 
Duiiferniline.  Then  lie  went  to  (ilasfjow, 
where  he  was  enijihjyed  as  salesman  until  187 1. 
In  that  year  iie  aceepted  a  position  with  Daniel 
&  Hoyd,  of  the  "London  house"  of  St.  John, 
N.U. ,  where  he  remained  fifteen  vears.  In 
i8,'<6  1ie  formed  a  partnership  with  I'.  W.  (i. 
Hroik,  under  the  tirm  name  of  Hroek  &  rater- 
son,  and  eslaldished  what  is  now  one  of  the 
hest  known  milliner\-  and  faiuN'  div-^(Jods 
houses  in  New  Urunswiek.  They  do  the  lary;- 
est  business  in  the  millinery  line  of  anv  firm 
in  the  Marilime  rmviiiees,  occupying;  the  large 
store  at  3J  Kini;'  Street,  includinL;  three  floors 
above.  Besides  eii;hteen  clerks  lhe\  em]iloy 
four  traxelliiij;  salesmen. 

.Mr.  I'aterson  was  married  in  |S,S4  to  Miss 
llelen  M.  Nase,  a  dauj;liter  of  the  late  I'liili]) 
Nase,  of  Indiantown,  further  mention  of  whom 
may  be  found  on  another  page  of  this  volume. 
To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  I'aterson  have  been  born  si.\ 
children,  who  are  all  li\ing  In.,  one:  Kenneth 
H. ,  (iraeme,  Robert,  I'hilip  Nase  (who  died 
at  the  age  of  eighteen  months),  Margaret,  and 
John  Hlair  Halfour.  .Mr.  I'aterson  is  a  mem- 
ber of  .Si.  Davitl's  l'resb)terian  Church  and 
of  the  .St.  .Nndrew's  .Society. 

Mr.  I'ateison's  residence  is  located  at  i).S 
Wentworth  Street  1,:  the  city  of  St.  John. 
Hut  he  s|iends  his  summeis  with  his  family  at 
Westfield,  X.U. ,  a  pleasant  little  summer  re- 
sort that  is  located  about  fifteen  miU's  up  the 
St.  John  River,  and  is  one  of  the  most  beauti- 
ful spcjts  along  that  river. 


I.I'.XAXDl'lK  kOHI.NSON,  of  Chat 
ham,  N.li. ,  manufacturer  at  carriages 
and  dealer  in  line  iin|)orlalioiis,  was 
born  in  Northumberland  (Jounty,  this  province, 
on  .March  3,  1.S4S,  son  of  John  and  Janet 
(Scott)  Robin.son. 

His  fathi^r  was  a  native  of  County  I.migford, 
ill  the  north  of  Irelaiul.  Jle  came  to  this 
country  with  his  mother  when  about  twehe 
years  old.  lie  learned  the  painter's  trade, 
and  subseiiuenlly  worked  al  it  (luring  llie  re- 
mainder of  hi.s  life.  His  wife,  Janet,  was  the 
daughter  of  .Scotch  |)arents,  with  whom  she 
came  to  America  in  her  childhimd.  She  was 
the  mother  of  the  following-named  children  : 
William,  Richard,  .Mary,  (ieorge,  John, 
I-'j;.nces,  ;\le.\ander,  Janet,  Robert,  and  .Martha. 
Mr.  John  I'fobinson  was  a  member  of  .St.  I'aul's 
Church  and  for  many  years  a  leading  member 
of  the  .Sons  of  Temperance.  He  died  on 
.\|>ril  29,  1.S69,  and  his  wife  died  on  Janiiar\- 
19,   i.S6j. 

.\le.\ander  Robinson  was  onh  sixteen  years 
of  age  when  he  was  set  to  leain  the  carriage- 
maker's  trade.  He  worked  at  Newcastle,  and 
in  St.  John  with  I'lice  &  Shaw,  and.  having 
finished  his  api)renticeshi|),  worketl  as  a  jour- 
neyman for  a  year  in  \'armouth,  N..S.,  and  f(jr 
two  years  at  Rosebaiik.  At  the  t'lul  of  that 
time  he  returned  to  Newcastle,  and  worked  for 
a  time  at  carriage  painting.  He  cinie  to 
Chatham  in  1S79,  and  established  his  |)iesent 
business.  He  not  onlv  nianufacturi's  car- 
riages, lint  kee]is  on  sale  im|>orted  \  chicles  of 
the  best  st_\'les  and  makes.  He  is  agent  for  all 
kinds  of  farming  implements. 


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Mr.  Robinson  was  inaniL'd  on  March  4, 
1873,  to  Miss  JaiiL'  ilcwitson  Cortnack,  a  na- 
tive of  CiiatlKini,  (lauj^lilcr  of  Alexander  and 
Rulli  (i'atlison)  Coimacix,  wlio  came  iiere  Ironi 
Seotland.  CH  tiie  nine  eliildren  liorn  ol  this 
union,  three  died  in  infancy,  and  X'iolet  died 
at  the  ajje  of  six  years.  'J'lie  five  livinj;-  are: 
("lertrude  C,  ]']lizabeth  C,  Mar-^arel  K.  .S. , 
Colin  A.,  and  Ilewetson  !,.  Mr.  Robinson 
is  one  of  the  Oiathani  Aldermen.  He  is 
a  member  of  tiie  Mine  lodge  antl  chapter  of 
.Masons,  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  I'nited  W'ork- 
nirn,  and  of  the  Royal  Arcaiuini.  lie  is  one 
of  the  Irnstees  of  .St.   Andiews  i'aiish   C'hnich. 


i)WiN  11.  .Mr.M.lMNi;,  .M.A.,  .St.  John, 
was  born  in  (.iambridf^e,  (Jneens 
County,  .\.H. ,  March  30,  1.S51,  son  of  Charles 
and  Matilda  Jane  (Cameron)  .Mc.Mpine.  His 
<;randfather,  Ciiarles  McAlpine,  .Sr. ,  a  native 
of  (ilasj^ow,  Scotland,  who  emi.Ljrated  to  \ew 
Hrnnswick  and  settled  in  (jueens  C'oinit\', 
where  he  follciwed  fainiin;;',  was  a  son  of  I'eter 
and  ICli/aheth  (Waters)  McAlpine,  and  one  of 
a  family  of  six  children;  namely,  John,  James, 
Charles,  Mercv,  I'llizabeth,  and  Janet.  Charles 
.McAlpine,  .Sr  ,  on  Ma\'  2,S,  1794,  mariied 
Christine  lielmain,  who  was  born  in  ( ;ias};(iw, 
dan.:;htei-  of  William  and  Marj^aret  (Nevins) 
lielmain,  and  who  had  three  sisters  and 
three  brothers  Julia,  Marj;aret,  Katie,  John, 
William,  and  llemv  lielmain.  Might  ihildien 
—  Teter,  James,  John,  Charles,  Katie,  Janet, 
I'eggv,  and  William  wcie  the  frnit  of  their 
union,      (irandf.ither    Mc.Mpine    died    at    tlie 


age  of  eighty-.si.x,  and  Grandmother  McAlpine 
lived  to  he  ninety-four  years  old. 

Charles  McAlpine,  Jr.,  father  of  luhvin  H., 
was  born  in  (Jneens  County  in  iNo;;,  and  lol- 
lowed  farming  during  his  active  )ears.  He 
tiled  in  1S75.  His  wife,  Matilda  Jane,  was 
a  native  of  (Jueens  Comity  anil  of  .Scotch  de- 
scent. 'I'hey  had  nine  children;  namely, 
James,  N'evin,  Charles,  lulwin  II.,  .Alhenia, 
Matilda,  Mary,  I'riscilla,  and  Cecilia.  The 
mother  died  in  1.S87. 

J'idwin  II.  McAli)ine  attended  the  ^u]lerior 
schools  of  Cambridge,  (Jueens  County,  his 
instructor  being  James  Mitchell,  who  was 
afterward  Premiei'  of  .New  Brunswick.  .After 
completing  his  college  preparati.ms  at  tne 
(.'ollegiate  .School,  I'redericton,  he  entered 
the  University  of  New  Mrunswick,  and  gradu- 
ated with  honor  in  \HCn).  He  was  ])rincipal 
of  the  combined  gramiiiar  and  high  school  in 
Chatham,  N.H. ,  for  four  years.  He  [jursued 
his  law  studies  with  William  I'ugsley,  O-C, 
\wis  admitted  as  attoine)'  in  iS7,S,  and  became 
a  barrister  in  1S79.  Locating  in  .St.  John, 
he  has  found  am[)le  opportunity  to  disiday  his 
talents  in  the  courts  of  New  iirunswick,  and  is 
regarded  as  a  lawvei'  of  unusual  ability.  He 
is  Referee  in  b'.ipiity  and  .\gent  of  the  Minis- 
ter of  Justice.  He  has  met  with  excellent 
success  in  several  imiiortant  cases,  among  them 
being  that  of  lielyea  f.  .Small  c/ (?'. ,  and  Hell 
;■.  liell;  and  as  Referee  his  judgnie.-ts  in  the 
cases  of  Jones  ,-■.  McKean  and  M.iclaie  ■■. 
Cirant  were  sustained  b\-  the  .Supreme  Court 
of  Canada. 

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joini'd  in  man  ia!j;c  willi  Miss  Clutilila  I'crris, 
claii^litLT  (il  the  lito  jciliii  I'LTiis,  Msc).,  M.  1'. , 
for  OiiCL'iis  CciUtily.  Of  tills  iiiiiun  two  chil- 
dren won'  horn,  hnt  ncithfr  of  thcni  is  li\ini;-. 
Mrs.   Mi-Aljiinc  (lii'il  in   iSSi. 

Mr.  Mc.Mpine  is  a  niL'nihcr  of  llihcrnian 
Lodge,  1'".  i^  .\.  M.  and  of  tlic  St.  .Xndrcws 
Socicls . 


R.XNCLS    J.    l)i:,SM()\l),    M.D.C.M., 

a  iiopnlar  physician  and  sni;;con  of 
Newcastle,  .N.li.,  was  horn  in  Huc'onchc,  Kent 
Count)',  Octoher  ~,  iS6j,  a  son  of  i'atiick  and 
Sarah  ( l-'it/patrick)  Desmond.  11  is  patern;il 
j;randfatlu-r  was  John  l)csmond,  who  emi^natcd 
from  Ireland  when  Patrick  was  fomtecn  years 
of  age,  .settling  first  at  J)ouglasto\vn,  X.H. , 
and  later  removing  to  Kent  C'onnty. 

I'atrick  Desmond,  horn  in  Cork,  Ireland,  on 
attaining  to  years  of  maturity  engaged  in  husi- 
ness  as  a  millwright  in  Kent  County.  After 
following  this  occupation  for  some  time  he  i 
hccame  proprietor  of  a  hotel  at  linctouchc, 
Kent  County,  which  he  mana.i;cd  for  several 
vears.  lie  then  went  into  hiisiness  as  a  mer- 
chant and  as  a  manufacturer  and  dealer  in 
lumher.    and    subsequently    for   soitie   years   he 


devoted     his    energies    to    shipdiuildiuL 


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the  eldest  son,  was  a  sea  captain.  He  .sailed 
from  l.imeiiik,  Ireland,  in  Jaiuiars',  iMSS,  on 
a  vessel  called  the  "H<ir/one,"  which  was 
never  more  heard  fmm.  I'lie  others  died  in 
childhood.  Patrick  Desmond  died  iii  i.S<St),  at 
the  age  of  lift_\-foin'  years. 

l-'rancis  J.  l)esiu<ind  received  his  elementary 
education  in  the  common  schools,  and  suhse- 
(pientlv  attended  St.  Michael's  C'ollege,  Chat- 
ham, wheie  he  took  a  commercial  course.  He 
then  hegan  tlie  stndv  of  medicine  with  l)r. 
I.  li.  I'reeman  and  Dr.  R.  Mcl.earn,  of  I'led- 
ericton,  receiving  the  benefit  of  their  instruc- 
tion for  two  years,  during  eighteen  months  of 
whiih  t inu' he  was  eniplov  cd  in  a  drug  store. 
Ill'  li.id  prcvioiish',  afti'r  leaving  .St.  Michael's 
College,  taught  for  .i  year  in  .St.  Louis'  C(d- 
lege,  Kent  County,  lie  niati  iculateil  at  Mi- 
Cill  C(dlcge  in  iS.S^,  and  graduated  March  31, 
iS.SS,  with  the  degree  of  M.I).,  C.  .M.  In  the 
following  Jime  he  entered  upon  the  <luties  of 
his  profession  in  Xcwcastlc,  where  he  has 
since  remained.  Inning  built  up  a  large  and 
lucrative  practice.  lie  is  a  member  of  the 
College  ot  Physicians  and  .Srigeons,  (Juebec, 
Canada,  of  the  New  Hrmiswick  Medical  .So- 
ciety, the  British  Medical  Assijciation,  and 
the  Canadian  Medical  .\s-.cn  iat  ion. 


wife,  .Sarah,  was  a  native  cif  Cli.itham,  .N.l!. , 
and  a  daughter  ol  Luke  and  .Mar_\  (<)'l.caryi 
I-'it/]iatrick,  who  came  to  New  Hrnnswitk  fimn 
\\'e.\ford,  Irelanil.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Patrick 
Desmond  were  the  parents  n|  li-ht  ihildren, 
two  of  whom  are  now  living,  namelv:  Mary 
Llleii,  wifi;  of  Captain  William  lie_\non;  and 
P'rancisJ.,  the  subject  of   this  skelch.       Luke, 


lOMAS  RANKINP:,  founder  of  the 
extensive  bakery  in  St.  John  now  car- 
ried on  by  his  sticcessors,  under  the  firm  name 
of  Mes.srs.  Thomas  Rankine  &  Sons,  was  horn 
in  Kincardine,  Scotland,  in  iSd^.  In  I S 1  iS 
he    began    his   appri'nt iccship    .'it    the   baker's 


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trade  will)  John  Ki<lston,  with  whom  he 
served  four  years,  during  which  time  he  re- 
ceived his  food  and  lodging.  lunigrating  in 
1822,  he  found  employment  at  lulmund  Kiri<'s 
bakery  in  Cunper's  Alley,  now  Church  Street, 
St.  John;  and  in  1.S24  he,  in  company  with 
a  Mr.  Herryman,  purchased  the  Kirk  estab- 
lisiiment,  which  liiey  con(hicte<l  under  tiie 
tir.n  name  of  Raiikine  &  Herryman  for  about 
two  years.  Iletlien  purcliascd  i.icrritt's  hake- 
house  fin  Union  Street,  which  he  occupied 
until  taking;  possession  of  new  cpiarters  fitted 
up  by  him  on  Mill  .Street.  His  business, 
which  he  he^'an  upon  a  scale  in  accordance 
with  the  jiopulation  at  that  time  (1826),  in- 
creased |)ro[)ortioiiately  with  the  city's  j^rowth, 
until  it  became  recoj;nized  as  an  important  in- 
dustry. 'I'he  wooden  buildiny;  in  which  he 
carried  it  on  was  destroyed  by  a  disastrous 
conflagration  in  1849.  The  same  year  he 
erected  a  brick  building,  which  he  liter  en 
larged  by  adding  another  store,  and  in  1874 
the  whole  was  extended  in  the  rear  through  to 
(icorges  Street.  The  Hankine  establishment 
was  again  swept  away  by  the  great  fire  of 
1877,  but  from  its  ashes  immediately  rose  the 
present  subst:intial  block.  In  1871  the  elder 
Rankine  admitted  to  partnership  his  two  sons 
—  Thomas  A.  and  Alexander — ^  they  having 
been  brought  up  in  the  business,  which  from 
that  time  to  the  present  has  been  conducted 
under  the  firm  name  of  Thomas  Rankine  & 
Sons.  y\lthough  the  father  |>racticallv  with- 
drew from  the  concern  in  1874,  his  guiding 
hand  was  visible  in  its  affairs  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  1876. 


I       He  was  one  of  the  first  directors  of  the  Me- 

,  chanics'  Institute.      At  one  time  he  served  as 

1  treasurer  and  trustee  of  .St.  Andrew's  Church, 

but  later   he  joined    .St.  Stephen's  Church,  in 

which   he  held  the  same  offices  and  was  a  fol- 

]  lower  of  the   Rev.  W.  T.  VVishart.      In    1824 

j  Mr.  Rankine  married   Janet    McWilliam,  who 

was    born    in    Scotland,    daughter   of   Thomas 

i   McWilliam.      Her    parents    were   pioneers    in 

Cocaigne,    N.H.,    where  her    father  cleared   a 

farm,    and    he    was    accidentally    killed    by    a 

falling    tree.        Mrs.     Rankine    became     the 

mother  of  eleven   children,  four  of  whom   are 

living;  namely,  Thomas  A.,  Alexander,  Janet, 

and  John.     The  others  were:   Margaret,  ICliz- 

abeth,    James,    Mary,     William,     Grace,    and 

Ann. 

'i'he  business  was  cariied  on  successfully  by 
Thomas  A.  and  Alexander  Rankine  until 
about  ten  years  ago,  when  .Alexander  retired, 
and  H.  C.  and  I'' rank  Rankine,  sons  of 
Thomas  .\.,  were  adinitted  to  the  firm,  which 
still  retains  its  prestige  among  the  leading 
business  houses  of  .St.  John.  The  present 
proprietors  have  inherited  the  untiring  energy 
and  strict  integrity  of  their  sturdy  preileces- 
sors;  and  these  essential  qualities,  together 
with  their  progressive  tendencies,  have  been 
the  means  of  still  further  increasing  the  vol- 
ume of  their  business.  To  meet  the  increas- 
ing demand  for  their  goods,  they  have  just 
com])leted  the  erection  of  a  four-story  brick 
building  on  (ieorge's  street  seventy  feet  long 
and  thirty  feet  wide. 

Thomas  A.  Rankine,  senior  [lartner  of  the 
firm,  was  born  in  St.   John,  August    i,  1825. 


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In  1846  he  married  Miss  Louisa  A.  Caldwi'll, 
a  native  of  Hudson,  N.ll.,  daiif^liter  of  Alex- 
ander Caldwell  and  a  representative  of  an  oiii 
faniil\-  (if  that  State.  Of  this  union  were 
iiorn  eij^ht  thildren,  nanuly:  Janet,  deceased; 
Henry  C,  a  partner  in  the  business;  Walter: 
Hester,  wife  of  the  Hon.  \V.  S.  I'"ieldinj^, 
I'inane  Minister,  Canada;  Oscar;  I'Vank, 
who  i'  issociated  witii  iiis  father;  Allan,  and 
Zillah.  After  the  death  of  his  first  wife, 
Louisa,  Mr.  Thomas  A.  Rankine  married 
Mary  E.  Camber,  by  whom  he  has  iiad  two  chil- 
dren—  Mary  L.   (deceaseil)  and  William  C". 

Mr.  Rankine  is  a  meinber  of  the  .St.  .\n- 
drcw's  Society,  and  was  formerly  president  of 
the  Mechanics"  Listitute.  He  attends  the 
Presbyterian  church. 


XDRl';  C'L'S1H\(^  for  many  years  a 
]ir(iniinent  lunihei'  merchant  and  re- 
speited  resident  of  St.  John,  wa> 
a  native  iif  the  United  Stales.  Hum  in  Iliiii;- 
ham,  .Mass.,  in  iSjo,  he  \va>  a  son  n\  Xclicmiab 
and  iJeborab  (Hri<;^s)  t'ushini;,  and  was  of 
the  seventh  ,:;enerati(in  in  descent  fioin  Mat- 
thew Ciishini;,  wlio,  with  his  wife  and  live 
children,  came  o\er  fmni  hinnland  in  the 
ship  "  ]  Jili.Ljent  "  in  the  >nnnner  of  iG^S, 
and  in  the  autumn  of  that  \  c,u'  settled  at 
Hin^ham,  .Mass.  'I'he  line  was  iVhitthew, ' 
Daniel,'  Theiipbilns, '  Tbcophilus, '  Tbeophi- 
1ns, ^  Nehcmiah,''  .\ndie.-^  (.See  Cushinj;- .{gene- 
alogy in  the  liisturv  of  llinghani,  published 
in  1893.) 

Comin,!.;-   to    St.    John    in    1S51    in    cnmp.niy 


with  bis  brotbei,  Theo|)bihis  (tjio  fourth  of 
that  name  in  lineal  descent),  toj^ether  the\' 
purchiised  a  site  at  I'liinn  Point,  wheie  in 
iSsJ  they  I'vei  ted  a  four-t;.'ite  steam  sawmill. 
'Phis  mill,  di'strovcd  by  file  in  1855,  was 
(piickly  rebuilt.  JSurned  attain  in  iSfig,  it 
was  again  rebuilt.  Mi.  Theophilus  t'ushing  was 
succeeded  by  his  son,  George  \\.  Cushing,  the 
business  being  then  tanii-d  on  under  the  st)'le 
of  .\.  dishing  iS:  Co.  The  liini  traded  e.xteii 
sively  in  lumber  with  West  Indian,  .S(juth 
.\meriian,  and  I'nited  .States  inaikets,  and 
were  known  far  and  wide  for  their  enterprise, 
.sagacit^v,  and  honorable  business  methods,  l-'or 
years  they  had  a  very  lucrative  tiade  in  sugar 
box  shooks,  in  the  manufactuie  of  which  they 
may  be  said  to  have  l)eeii  pioneers  in  .St.  John. 
.Since  the  de.ith  of  Mr.  (ieorge  1\.  C'ush,ing  his 
])lLice  in  the  liini  has  been  taken  1)\'  his  sun, 
(ieorge  .S.  Cnsbing. 

-Although  he  never  became  a  naturalized 
liiitish  subject,  Mr.  .\ndre  Cushing  faithfully 
discharged  all  the  duties  of  a  good  citi/en  to 
his  adopted  c-iiuiitr\.  lie  tonka  keen  interest 
in  all  mo\-emcnts  foi  the  public  good.  He  was 
active  in  liie  work  of  temperance,  and  the 
weight  of  his  intluence  was  c\er  gi\en  to  the 
support  of  any  cause  thai  leslcil  upnn  a  sound 
moral  basis.  'I'he  great  Civil  War  in  llie 
United  .States  (piickened  the  home  im|nilses  of 
all  American  citizens  residing  in  .St.  John 
during  that  period.  Mr.  Cushing  was  In  birth 
and  education  a  lo\ei  of  freedom,  and  look 
a  deep  interest  in  the  slrugglc.  He  became 
accpiainteil  with  many  of  the  more  eminent  of 
his  countrvmen  whose  services  on   the  battle- 


IIIOCRAI'IIK  Al,    KKVIKW 


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field  <ir  ill  tlic  political  arena  hail  lin)U};lit  thi-m 
iiitd  national  iironiinciui-.  lie  was  a  (lilij;eiit 
reader  ol  tlie  liistorieal  and  politieal  litiiatuie 
of  tliat  iiii|ioitant  epoeli,  and  it  Icit  a  dei'p  im- 
press on  his  mind.  I'ersiinally,  he  was  kind- 
hearted  and  j;enlle  in  his  manners;  hut,  wlien 
once  his  mind  was  made  up  on  any  siil)jeet, 
he  became  firm  and  inHexihie.  His  deatli 
ocenired  March  17,   iSgi. 

In  tlie  (iiand  l)i\ision  of  the  Sons  of  'I'em- 
peiance,  in  the  society  of  Odd  I'ellows,  of 
wliich  he  liad  been  (irand  Master  in  tlie  Lower 
Provinces,  on  the  Hoard  of  Trade,  and  in  utiiei' 
organizations  in  wjiicii  lie  tooi<  an  aitixe  inter- 
est, he  is  greatly  missed  ;  but  those  who  iiiourn 
him  most  outside  of  his  family  are  the  personal 
friends  who  knew  iiow  kind  hearted,  how  true, 
how  just  he  was,  and  who  enjoyed  intellectual 
association  witii  him,  who  jiad  llie  i)eiietlt  of 
his  extended  observation  and  fine  power  ol  con- 
versation and  close  speculation  in  rare  lields  of 
study.  Mr.  Gushing  was  a  sincere  and  earnest 
Christian,  his  mind  and  actions  bring  inllu 
enccd  l)y  tlie  teaciiings  of  .Swcdcnhoig,  of 
whose  writings  he  was  a    close  student. 

Mr.  Gushing  was  twice  married,  his  Inst 
wife  being  in  maidenhood  Miss  Delia  Rich, 
a  native  of  Wintcrport,  Me.  .\fler  her  death 
hemanied  Mrs.  V..  1).  Jewctt,  a  native  of  .St. 
John,  \.H. ,  and  the  widow  of  ]•:.  1).  Jewctt,  of 
St.  John. 


and  resides  in  Nova  .Scotia;  and  Chauncey  I)., 
who  is  a  lesident  of  the  St.ite  of  .\ortii  Garo 
iin;i. 

Ai.i.^ioN  GisiiiNi.,  soli  of  Andre  taishing, 
subject  of  tlie  ineceding  sketch,  by  iiis  first 
wife,  iJelia  Rich,  was  born  in  Wiiiterport,  Me., 
in  1S49,  and  w;is  aixml  three  years  old  wiien 
his  [)arents  removed  to  .St.  Joiiii,  where  he  was 
reared.  He  ol)t;iine(l  his  element;iry  ediuation 
in  tliat  city,  and  sul)sc(|uently  pursued  more 
aiKanccd  studies  in  Waltham,  Mass.  After 
leaving  sclioid  he  engaged  in  the  lumber  i)nsi 
ness  at  .S;disbury,  .\.H.,  and  followed  it  until 
1888.  He  then  moved  to  .St.  Jolm,  whcie  he 
has  since  been  successful  Is  engaged  in  the 
same  business. 

He  was  married  in  187.5  to  Miss  Clara  I.. 
Currier,  a  native  of  Hdl  '.veil.  Me.,  and  a 
daughter  of  Jabe/  Gun  icr.  llei'  father  was  (if 
I'uritaii  ancestr\-;  ;md  hci  niotlicr  was  a  ,:;rand- 
iiieee  of  Josiah  Hartlett,  whose  signature  ap- 
jiears  next  after  that  of  John  Hancock  on  the 
Declaration  of  Indeiiendeiice.  Mr.  and  i\Irs. 
.\llston  Gushing  are  the  parents  of  si.\  chil- 
dren :  l.uciiula  G.  ;  Hertha  M.,  wife  of  I'arker 
r.  lUirleigh,  of  Houlton,  Me.  ;  Andre  Rich- 
mond, of  .St.  John;  Delia  Rich;  Charles  Dunn, 
and  Clara  Louise.  The  family  attend  the 
Church  of  Lngland.  Mr.  Gushing  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  1.  ().  ().   I'. 


Mr.    Gushiii!. 


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.uciiula,  wife  of 


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;i  CL'iUiii  V  li;is  ln'in  iloscly  idiiit  itii.'<l  uitli  its 
l)usiiK'ss  jiio.sperity.  lli- was  Ixhm  in  IVtitcn- 
(li;u',  N.H.,  ]'\'hriiaiv  16,  iSjj,  smi  dl  ilic  Ui'V. 
I)a\i(l  Ciandall.  Mr.  {'laiidall's  ;;iamllatlK'r, 
tlu'  Ki'V.  J(isi.'|ili  t'laiulall,  ulm  liie'd  in  Salis- 
l)m\,  N.I!.,  al  thf  xonoiaidi'  aj;c'  nt  (.dj^lit)- 
years,  was  a  Hai)tist  nunistct  <if  cnn.sidi'ialjlc 
note  in  his  da\-,  and  pii'ai'liL'd  in  all  parts  dl' 
this  I'n)\  inco. 

1<L'\'.  I)a\id  Ciand.dl  was  hnin  in  .Sal  isl)ui  v, 
N.li.,  and  was  t'arly  nrdainrd  to  tlu'  l!a|itisl 
ministry,  lie  was  a  laithful  Mnikn-  in  the 
Ma.ster's  vineyard,  and  arqiiired  iniiniinence  in 
the  (leiioniination  with  which  lu'  was  (.(in- 
nected.  A  man  nl  stnrd\'  (.nnstitntidii  and  df 
temperate  iiahits,  he  ii\ed  tn  the  reniaikaide 
a;^e  dl  dne  hundred  year>.  lie  married  l''.iiza- 
heth  Ilop]iei',  who  also  attained  a  ^ond  old  ! 
a^'e. 

Joseph,    the   second    son    of   the    Kev.   l)a\  id  [ 
Crandall,    was    edneated    at    .'^t.    Martin's    and  ! 


.Salisl)ur}-,     .\.  H.  ;     an<l    alter    e<ini|)letini;'    his 
studies  he  was  eni|)lo\eil  as  a   e!v.rl<    in   a  store 
at    .St.    John    until    he    reaelu'd    man's    estate. 
I.ocat  in^^  then  in  Moneton   in    1X4.1.  he  opened 
a    store  of  jjjeneral    menhandise.  and    foi' more 
than    tliirty    years    wa^    a    popular    niercliant. 
Moiuton  was  at   that  time   a    very   small  town, 
with     not     more     than    a    dozen    linuses,     three 
stores,  a  ehureh,  a  sehool  Iniildinj;',  two  hhuk- 
smith   shops,  and   a   carpenter's   siiop.      In    its 
subseciuent  rapid  growth  and  improvement  M' 
Crandall  has  been  an   important   factor,  an' 
the  various   |iuhlic  positions   to   wliicii   h 
been     called     he     has     inxariahly    ^'r\i 
ability  aiuMidelit)'.      In  I  S.^O  he  was  api"..       d 


I'dstmaster,  .md  fiom  that  time  n;,til  i.S(j8  ad- 
ministered the  affairs  of  the  post-oHiee  most 
satisfactorily.  On  aciount  of  failing;  health 
lie  was  then  forced  to  give  ii|i  the  position,  and 
was  suci'ceded  by  his  son,  .Sleadman  ('rand, ill. 
In  1S71  he  w.is  ap|idinled  Sa\'iii^s  Hank  .\nenl. 
In  1.S75  he  was  made  liist  ciiairman  of  the 
Town  Cduncil  under  the  incorpnral  ion  act  of 
that  year,  a  ilistinctidn  that  he  meriti'd  ha  his 
timely  labors  dniin.L;  the  aj;itation  th.it  pre- 
ceded the  confeik'rat ion  of  the  I'liivinces,  and 
more  espeeially  the  incorporation  of  ihc  town 
of  Moncton. 

In  Ma\-,  1S46,  Mr.  (.'landall  married  I 'ranees 
.\.,  dauj^hter  of  William  .Sleadman,  of  Monc- 
ton. (  )f  their  nine  children  lix'c  aie  now  liv- 
iu};-,  namely:  Sleadman,  horn  Jidy  11,  1S47; 
(iilbert,  born  May  Ji,  1S55;  William,  born 
March  14,  1.S57;  .\vola,  born  Apiil  ^o,  iSfi^; 
and  b'rank,  born  l-'ebiiiary  i,  1866.  .Mi-.  and 
Mrs.  Crand.ill  aie  Imih  mc'inbers  of  tlie  Haplisl 
church.  In  pulitics  he  is  iiulependent,  \iitin^- 
aecdrdin''  to  his  honest  convictions. 


|.\j()R    jnllX    |.\M1.:.S    CORDON, 

proprietor     of      ijic     Cordon     Xail 
Work-.    West    St.    John,    and   the 
orij;inal  pronioUr  of  that  industry  in  the  Mari- 
time  I'ri  '  1    Hliie   Rock,  this 
city,    <             i     I  ;,     i.Sj.i,         i!  Robert    and 
n.      1 1           rchis  were  born 
■r  A  ii           dant  of   Scotch 
mother    ol     i''nL;lish.       Ills 
aniu.aher  w.is   \\     liim   Cordon,  of 


jialen 


Cour  \    Uerry,   lielani 


on  ol     |ohn   (iordon. 


M.\.l'>u    John     I.  CoKi 


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a  tlealer  in  live-'lo  -k.  Thi;  name  John,  bdrne, 
it  is  thus  slidwn,  1)^-  ^^ajo^  Gordon's  j^ieat- 
j;ran(lt'athor,  is  (.■onspicuoiis  in  thu  ancestral 
line  foi'  several  i;enerati(ins  faitliei'  hack. 

Robert  (inrdon,  Majoi' (lordon's  father,  horn 
in  1814,  was  a  linen  weaver  by  trade;  and  he 
travelled  over  Ireland  and  Scotland  |ire\  ion:>  to 
crossing;' the  ocean.  I'ihiii  liis  arrival  in  New 
i^runsuitk  he  runnd  ein|ilo\  nient  in  a  ship- 
yard. Afterward  he  worked  in  a  sawmill, 
anil  still  later  followed  the  blacksmith's  trade. 
At  length  be  settled  on  a  farm  in  A\  lesford, 
Kings  County,  but  after  a  short  time  returned 
to  St.  John,  West,  where  he  s|)ent  the  lest  of 
liis  life;  and  he  died  Septembci'  hi,  il^'oij. 
lie  belonged  to  the  Orange  Societv,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  I'resbyterian  church.  Robert 
and  Jane  (I)i.\on)  Gordon  had  a  faniih'  of  f(}ur 
childica,  namely:  Mllen,  born  Ma)'  2,  1S51, 
who  died  Januarv  2y,  iS6,S;  John  J.,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch;  ;\nne  Jane,  i'orn  .April 
12,  1S55,  who  married  Thomas  II.  Johnstone, 
of  St.  John;  .and  Catherine,  bom  Jain'.iry  2, 
1,S5,S,  now  the  wife  of  J.  bl/ckicl  Mcl.eod. 
The  mother,  born  i.SjS,   is  still  living. 

lohn  James  Gordon,  leaving  the  St.  John 
public  schools  at  th  r  age  o'  thirteen  years, 
worked  in  a  saw-mill  loi-  tv-.o  years,  and  then 
served  an  ap|irenticeship  of  three  \ears  at  the 
biass  founder's  trade  with  William  Il.iyward. 
lie  subsei|ueutly  worked  successively  as  a  jour- 
neyman for  Ilayward  &  I""armer  and  as  fore- 
nan  fo|-  Wales  vS:  (ireen,  whom  he  left  to  taki' 
charge  c  the  brass  foundry  department  of 
James  Harris  &  Co. 's  wdrks;  and  later  on, 
operating  a   sawmill    in    Campbelltoii,    X.Ii. , 


for  a  time,  he  returned  to  St.  John,  where  he 
was  engaged  in  the  grocer)-  business  for  some 
years.  While  employed  in  the  manufacture  of 
horsesh(je  nails  with  James  I'ender,  he  made 
arrangements  with  lianiel  (laik,  of  the  t-lec- 
tric  Works  in  Carleton,  for  space  and  jiower  for 
establishing  a  wire  naii  manufactory;  and  a 
proposition  to  consolidate  ina<le  to  Messrs. 
I'ender  i^  I'uidy,  the  horseshoe  nail  makers, 
resulted  in  the  formation  of  the  joint  stock 
comp.uiy  of  render  &  Co.,  I.innted.  He  re- 
mained with  that  concein  hut  one  )ear,  during 
which  time  lie  had  charge  of  the  wire  nail  de- 
partment; anil  in  the  s|iiing  of  1S93  he  estab- 
lished his  |)resent  jdant,  making  his  lirst  ship- 
ment in  August  of  the  same  )ear.  .At  the 
present  time  he  emjilovs  an  average  force  of 
twelve  men,  |)roducing  thirteen  thousand  kegs 
annually;  and  his  business  is  constantly  in- 
creasing. 

Major  Gorilon  has  long  been  identitied  with 
the  Canadian  militia,  which  he  joined  at  the 
age  of  eighteen,  entering  an  artillery  cumpany 
as  a  gunner,  and  making  his  wa)'  foiward  to  his 
present  rank.  He  ser\'ed  as  Lieutenant  lor 
one  year  under  Colonel  Armstrong,  received 
his  commission  of  Major  in  the  Royal  Light 
.Aitilleiy  at  the  Military  Schmd  in  ijuebec, 
and  was  permitted  to  letire  with  that  rank  to 
the  reserve  list.  He  also  joined  the  Orange 
Societ\' at  eighteen,  was  a  member  of  the  Cadets 
of  'I'emperauco,  has  been  elected  for  the  third 
year  as  Marshal  of  the  .St.  .Xndrew's  .Scjcietv, 
and  belongs  to  the  Clan  McKenzie,  Order  of 
Scotland.  .Major  (loriloii  was  baptized  in  the 
rresb\terian  faith,  and   has  been   conlirmed  in 


v-y 


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BIOGRAPHICAL   REVIEW 


hii 


the    Cluiri'li    dI'    I'ji^laiul.       lie    inaintains   ]iis 
CDniu'i'tion   witli    licith   cIiuicIk's. 


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/^K()RGI':  ROHI'.RISON,  ex-Mayor  ot 
V^X  llio  city  (if  St.  Jdliii,  \.H.,  I'rnviiuo 
of  Canada,  was  horn  in  Kitijustnn,  Kent  t'ountw 
X.H.,  January  30,  1844.  His  father,  the  late 
DiHuan  Rohertson,  was  liorn  in  iSjj  in  ;\hei'- 
(ieen,  Scotland,  wiieie  he  was  echieateii.  hani- 
j;rating  fmni  tliere  to  New  l!i  nnswick,  he 
followed  the  trade  of  a  slii[)-l)iiildei'  during;  his 
veais  of  activity,  heinj^'  located  at  Kinj;sl(in, 
MoiKton.  and  ' 'oeaij,n'ie.  lie  died  in  1SS3. 
His  widow,  whose  maiden  name  was  (ieorL;iana 
Jaidine,  was  horn  in  Wampiiray,  Dumfries- 
shire, Scotland,  and  is  now  living'  in  .St.  jolin. 
.\.  H. 

(ieorge  Roiiertson  w.is  init  two  \ears  old 
when  in  1  846  his  parents  ien;ined  to  Moncton, 
where  he  rcceiveil  the  rudiments  of  liis  educa- 
tion, which  was  further  ailvanced  liy  a  course 
of  stud)' at  the  .Sackville  Academx'.  In  iSfli 
Mr.  Robertson  seemed  a  situation  as  cleil<  for 
James  Macfarlane  in  St.  John,  a  position  wliicii 
he  retained  for  seven  years.  lla\inj.;  obtain. d 
while  thus  emploxed  a  ;;iiod  knowledge  of  the 
fjrocerv  business,  he  embarked  in  tiade  for 
himself  in  IcSTlS  bv  opening  a  store  for  the  sale 
of  gioceries  and  West  India  goods.  lie  car- 
ried on  a  successful  wholesale  and  retail  busi- 
ness until  he  was  burned  out  in  the  memoi-.d)le 
the  of  1S77.  In  i.S-(jhe  resumed  business  at 
his  old  location,  and  at  t!)e  same  time  opened 
a  retail  branch  store  on  I'rince  William  Street, 
the    l.itti'r   of   wliich    he   afteiward   removed   to 


King  Street,  and  witli  his  partner,  Samuel 
Corbetl,  with  whom  he  is  still  associated,  es- 
tablished the  well-known  firm  of  George  I'iob- 
crtson  &  Co.  In  1S94  this  firm  closed  out 
the  retail  dc|)artmenl  of  their  trade;  and  they 
have  since  confined  themselves  to  the  whole- 
sale grocery  busi.iess,  their  store  being  located 
at  C)-  I'rince  William  Street. 

In  his  younger  days  Mr.  Robertson  was  ac- 
tively inteiest  'd  in  militaiv  affairs,  and  for 
a  lunnber  of  \ears  was  Captain  of  Company  I, 
Seidiid  Battalion,  St.  J(.hn  Light  Infantry.  A 
man  of  iccogni/c-d  business  ability,  he  was 
cliosen  ]iicsident  of  the  .St.  John  Hoard  of 
Trade;  and  dining  the  three  xeais  that  be 
served  in  this  capacit)'  he  became  favorably 
known  throughout  the  Dominion  of  Canada, 
his  atldresses  before  the  boards  ot  trade  in  the 
more  impoitant  cities  receiving  merited  atten- 
tion fiom  the  leading  citizens  of  Canada.  lie 
also  served  as  the  fiist  president  of  the  Mari- 
time Hoard  of  Trade  of  .St.  John,  and  was  at 
one  time  ])residenl  of  St.  .Xndiews  .Sneietv, 
the  oldest  oi-ganized  societ\'  in  tiie  citv.  Mr. 
Robertson  is  |irominently  connected  with  many 
benevolent,  business,  and  fraternal  organiza- 
tions, being  one  of  the  commissioners  of  the 
Hoys'  Industrial  Home,  treasurer  of  the  Relief 
and  i\id  .Societv,  a  director  of  the  l%.\liibition 
Association  and  of  the  Horticultural  Associa- 
tion. He  is  a  member  of  Clan  McKenzie  and 
of  St.  Andrews  Society,  and  is  an  I-!lder  in  the 
.St.   .Ni'drews  rresbyterian  Church. 

IVditically,  Ml.  ivohertson  is  an  Indepen- 
deul.  In  l.S'(j;5  he  w:is  elected  M.iyor  of  the 
cit\',  a  |Hisilion   to  whith   he  w.is  aiuiually   re- 


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elected  until  1S98,  wlu'ii  he  was  not  a  caiuli- 
(late.  During  his  Maynralty  he  had  tli.' 
pleasure  and  satisfaelioii  ol  seeing  Canadian 
interests  greatly  developed  by  the  opening  ol 
St.  John  anil  other  iniporiant  ports  ol  the 
Dominion  as  ports  for  the  winter  trade,  a  n)eas- 
urc  which  he  strongly  advocated  while  jiresi- 
dent  of  the  Hoard  of  Trade.  lie  was  also 
largely  instrumental  in  the  opening  up  of  the 
present  steamshi|>  line  hetwei-n  .St.  John  ami 
Denierara  and  ports  in  the  West  Indies.  lie 
is  now  a  member  of  the  House  of  Assembly  of 
the  Province  of  New  Hrunswick,  and  is  ])ro- 
nioier  and  director  of  the  Imperial  Dry  Dock 
Compan\df  .St.  John,   X.  H. 

Mr.  ]\obertson  married  Agnes,  daughter  of 
the  late  William  Turner,  of  St.  John,  .\'.li._ 
formerlvof  (ilasgow,  Scotland.  (If  their  seven 
I'iiildren  one  die(l  in  infancy  and  six  are  now 
living:  Duncan  and  William  Jardine,  twins, 
who  reside  in  .St.  John;  I'.li/abeth  Russell, 
who  is  the  wife  of  John  Monlgomerv,  a  barris- 
ter-at-law;  (ieoige  Keith;  Janet  Paterson ;  and 
I'"thel.  Mrs.  Robertson  is  a  member  of  .St. 
Andrews  l'icsl)\teiian  Church. 


'^■ji.ISS  A.  .M.\R\I;N,  M.D.,  oneof 
K^\  tin-  leading  phvsici.uis  of  IliUsboro, 
.\lbcrl  Counts.  N.H.,  was  horn  in 
the  parish  of  Holsford,  now  c.iUed  (iie.il  .Shem- 
oguc,  Deccndier  in,  iSiii,  and  is  a  son  of 
the   late  Jo>iah    H.    Mar\cn. 

His  grantlfather,  Sil.is  .M.irvcn,  w.is  born  at 
lielle  Isle,  Kings  CouiUv,  \.H.,  where  he 
spent  his  entire  life  of  eights -four   sears.      He 


svas  a  farmer  h)'  occu])alion,  and  svorked  most 
inilustriously  at  tilling  the  soil.  He  married 
Abigail  JJidad,  by  svhom  he  had  four  children, 
tsvo  of  svhom  are  still  living,  namely:  William 
.S.,  svho  married  \Ai/.a  .Shanks  and  has  one 
child,  i;ila,  wife  of  W.  P'rank  Hathasvay,  of 
.St.  John;  and  Henjaniin,  svho  married  Julia 
'i'rites.  Both  of  the  paternal  grandparents 
svere  niend)ers  of  tiie  Church  of  Mngland. 

Josiah  li.  Marven  svas  boin  in  i.S'27,  in  lielle 
Isle,  on  the  idd  liomestead.  In  eails'  niaidiood 
he  established  himself  in  business  at  (ireat 
Shemogue,  \.H. ,  as  a  general  merchant,  and 
for  a  scoie  of  years  carried  on  a  thriving  trade. 
Retiring  then  to  a  farm  in  that  place,  he  en- 
gaged in  agricultural  pursuits  until  his  death, 
at  the  age  of  si.\ty-four  years.  In  politics  he 
was  a  Conservative,  and  in  religion  he  and  his 
wife  svere  Methodists.  He  married  l'!lizabeth, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Avard,  a  leading  meichant 
and  one  of  the  mvist  inlluential  citizens  of  his 
com  mini  it}-.  She  died  at  the  age  of  forts-nine 
years,  leaving  seven  children,  namels:  Alice, 
svife  of  Cicorge  C.  .Melvin,  M.D.,  of  .St.  John, 
X.P. ,  svlio  has  two  children  Cicorgia  ami 
Alice;  Jiliss  A.  ;  Maggie  .S. ,  svife  of  Chipman 
Keith,  of  llavelock,  X.H.  ;  I'.dgar  W.,  iminar- 
ried,  a  dentist  in  l.ynn,  Mass.;  Jose|ih  A., 
unmarried,  svho  is  a  connnercial  traveller  in 
St.  John;  John  I..,  a  niech;uiic,  residing  at 
St.  John,  unmanied;  and  (ieorge  II.,  svho  is 
dentist  of  .Souris,  P.  ]■].  I. 
^  Hliss  A.  Marven  graduated  from  the  X(jrnial 
Schocd  at  P'redericton,  X.H. ,  ssith  the  class 
of  \S-y),  and  sv.is  aftersvard  engaged  for  a  time 
as  a  tcaciier  in  Dorchester  .md  at    Port    Plgin. 


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BioGRArnicAL  revif;w 


He  subsequently  continued  his  studies,  attend- 
ing first  St.  Joseph's  College,  then  the  Halifax 

Medieal  C"(dU'ge,  after  which  he  spent  two 
\ears  at  the  L'niw  >ity  of  \'enn(int  in  Turling- 
ton, \'t.,  from  wiiieh  he  giaduateil  in  i.SST). 
The  following  \ear  Dr.  Marven  practiseil  at 
Alhert,  X.li.,  and  in  the  fall  of  1.S87  loeated 
at  Ilillshoro,  where  he  has  met  with  distin- 
guished success  in  his  professional  career. 
I'raternally,  he  is  a  mendier  of  Hillshoro 
Court,  I.  O.  v.,  and  of  the  Canadian  Home 
Circle,  in  hnih  nf  wliicli  orders  he  is  Iv.xam- 
ining  I'hvsieian.  He  is  also  ;i  cornner  fiii- 
Albert  Cnunty. 

On  Heeendier  24.  1N7S,  Dr.  Marven  married 
Maggie  1-".,  daughter  of  Josejih  Dohson,  of 
Stony  Creek.  X.H. ,  and  thev  have  two  children 
—  Laura  II.  anil  Alice  D.  Mis.  Marven  is 
;i  niemher  <if  the  liajitist  church. 


§A.M1''.S  rh:\\A\r,  an  active  iiusiness 
man  nf  h'rcdei  iclon,  X.H.,  was  born  in 
I.S:, ^,  in  (ilasgow,  Scotland,  a  son  of 
William  Tennant.  His  father  for  eighteen 
years  served  in  the  Rnyal  Xav}',  and  was  under 
Xcb.on  at  the  battle  cif  the  Xile  and  also  at 
Tr.ifalgar.  In  the  fninu'i'  engagement  he  was 
wounded,  and,  being  captured,  was  cast  into 
a  l-'rench  pri.son.  After  bis  return  to  (ilasgow 
he  was  there  engaged  as  a  calico  printci  until 
bis  death,  at  the  .i,u,e  of  threescore  )ears.  His 
wife,  whose  m.iidm  name  was  Jessie  Dal/iel, 
died  in  (I.!  ';ow  at  tl.e  age  of  fifty -eight 
years.  'I'he\  reared  four  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters.     Of  these  children,    James,    the    sjjecial 


subject  of  this  sketch,  was  the  youngest-born, 
and    is   tiie   sole  survivor. 

James  rennant  entered  the  Calico  I'riiU 
Works,  Haiiluad,  Renfrewshire  (near  Cilas- 
gow),  as  a  hound  apprentice,  and  worked  there 
for  three  _\ears.  .\fterward  he  was  employed 
for  some  time  at  the  same  oi'ciipation  in 
Paisley,  also  in  Renfrewshire,  and  later  at 
Kilmarnock,  Ayrshire.  .Subse(|uenlly  lie 
worked  at  iron  ship-building  at  (ilasgow, 
Cireenock,  Li\er])ool,  and  ]{irkenhead,  baig- 
land,  and  at  the  Cape  of  (iood  Hope,  to  which 
1,1st  nametl  place  he  went  from  Liverpool  in 
1854  and  where  he  remained  '.bree  years.  The 
next  fi\e  years  he  was  engaged  as  steward  on 
one  of  the  vessels  of  the  Clyde  steamshi]!  line, 
and  after  that  he  returned  to  (il.isgow.  There 
Mr.  Tennant  in  1S63  embarked  in  business  for 
himself  as  a  wlude.sale  and  retail  dealer  in 
wines  and  spirits,  in  which  for  nine  \eais  he 
had  a  substantial  trade.  In  iSj;,  he  jcdned  the 
|iart\  whiih  formed  the  Kincardine  (Jolonv, 
with  wbii  h  lu'  emigrati'd  to  Xew  Hiunsw  ick  ;  and 
in  June  of  that  year  he  settled  in  l'"rederict(jn, 
whv'ie  be  has  since  continiR'd  in  his  former 
line  o'  business,  and  is  now  a  general  mer- 
chant. I''ratei  iialK ,  he  is  ,111  actixe  ineniber 
of  Hiram  Lodge,  I  .  vS;  .\.  M.  ;  oi  the  I.  ().  \\  ; 
and  of  .Si.  Andrew's  .Sociel}-,  of  wiiich  lu' has 
been  treasurer  since  KSS3.  Political  1\',  he  is 
a  Liberal. 

Mr.  rennant  and  ,Mai;;ai\'t  I'dloid  .\niler- 
son,  daughter  of  William  .\nderson,  o|  Crawlord 
Moor,  -Scotland,  wi'ie  unitetl  in  marriage  on 
X'ovend)er  22,  1864.  The\-  have  had  thirteen 
children  born  to  them,  and  ha\e  been   bereft  of 


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five  —  Mary  I.,  Isabella,  John,  anil  two  others. 
The  cij;ht  children  now  livinfj  are:  Jessie, 
wile  (il  Hans  I'hair,  of  liostmi,  Mass.;  Mar- 
j;arel  ;  Mary,  wife  of  Donald  I-'iascr,  Jr.; 
Louise;  Arehihald  Welherspoon,  a  tele,!;ra))h 
operator  on  the  Canadian  I'acifie  Railway; 
James,  an  erni)loyee  in  the  saw-mill  nl  Donald 
I'raser  vS:  Sons;  Xoi'man,  who  is  attending; 
school  ;  and  Walter. 


ii:L!r!:\.\\r   (.olom;!.    ai.I'Rmd 

M-\1\KII.\M,  mana.i;ini;  directur  of 
the  .Sun  Trintinj;  (.'ompauy  (I.im- 
iteil),  .St,  John,  N.ii.,  wa.s  horn  in  l.ineolu- 
shire,  haigland,  on  l'"ehruary  26,  1.S41,  son  of 
John  and  I-Hizabeth  (Hailey)  Markham.  lie 
received  a  practical  training;  in  tlii'  public 
i^rammar  schoid,  and  was  subsccpicu' ly  eni- 
jiloycd  in  the  railway  and  dock  service  until 
lSf)4,  when  he  sailed  for  the  I'nited  .States  in 
the  steamship  "  Hohemian.  "  ( )n  the  passaj^e 
the  "Bohemian  "  was  wreckid  near  I'ortland, 
i\Ie. ,  on  the  J2d  of  ]'"ehruai'v;  and  forty-two  of 
the  passen;;ers  wore  diowned.  Colonel  !\Iark- 
hani's  first  emiiloyment  in  .\merica  was  on  the 
("irand  Trnnk  Railway  at  I'ortland  and  Boston; 
and  after  that,  for  about  one  3ear,  he  was  on 
gajjed  as  clerk  on  the  International  (.'ompan_\'s 
steamer  ".\ew  Brunswick,"  pl\inj;'  betwoi'n 
Boston,  .Mass.,  and  St.  John,   X.I!. 

In  .\pril,  iSfif),  ho  took  chai'^^o  for  an  .Amer- 
ican oomp.iindf  the  manganese  mine  at  Ham- 
mond \'alo,  Kiiii;s  County,  N.H. ,  and  during 
the  ([uartor  of  a  century  that  followeil  suc- 
ceeded in  making  this  the   most   famous  man- 


ganese mine  on  the  continent.  Th.  mining 
village  which  he  established  is  still  called,  in 
his  honor,  Markhamville.  In  i.S<ji  ho  bought 
the  .St.  John  />ii/7v  S//n  newspaper,  and  on  the 
organization  of  the  .Sun  Printing  t'ompany  was 
appointed  managing  director. 

Colonel  Maikham  was  Warden  of  Kings 
County  when  the  Marcpiis  of  Lome  and  the 
I'rincoss  Louise  visited  New  Brunswick,  and 
he  presented  an  address  to  them  at  .Sussex. 
In  iSSo  he  was  ajiiiointed  .Senior  Major  of  the 
Lighth  Princess  Louise  Hussars,  antl  in  i.S(j6 
was  gazetted  Lieutenant  Colonel  in  the  militia. 
Ho  is  \ico-i>residont  of  the  l'rovinci;il  Rifle 
-Association  and  president  of  the  Canadian  Cav- 
alry Association.  Ho  is  a  Knight  Templar 
and  a  past  ])resident  of  .St.  (ioorge's  .Society, 
vice-|)resident  of  the  Kovstone  l''iie  Insur.ance 
Company,  and  a  director  of  the  I'ictou  Charcoal 
Iron  Company.  In  politics  be  is  an  active 
Conservative,  in  religion  a  member  of  the 
Clinrch  of  haigl.ind.  lie  was  married  in  Xo- 
\  ember,  1X66,  to  N'aida,  daughter  of  the  late 
John  L.  Turnbull.  His  family  consists  of 
two  sons  and  four  daughters. 


irX  CARLTON  CLINCH,  the  wcll- 
I  jN  I  known  b.nikei-  of  .St.  John,  was  horn 
c"*"-^^  '  \\\  St.  Croorge,  Charlotte  County, 
N.B.,  on  .Soi)tombor  12,  I<S4(),  son  of  I'otoi' 
and  .Sar.il\  Josephine  (Wetmoro)  Cliiuh.  He 
is  a  groat-grandson  of  I'oter  Clinch,  (irst,  a 
graduate  of  Trinity  Cidlego,  Dublin,  Ireland, 
who  emigrated  to  .\merica,  and  later,  at  the 
breaking  out  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  became 


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a  iiK'Hibci"  ot  the  R(iy;\I  l-'cnsihle  Anu'iicans, 
l)cin};  a  Lieutenant,  anil  siil).si.'(|iicntly  iircinuitcd 
til  l)e  Caiilain. 

At  the  close  of  tlu-  war  IVUt  Clinch,  lirst, 
or  Captain  Clinch,  came  with  other  Loyalists 
lo  \cw  Hiiinswick  and  settled  at  St.  (ieorge, 
where  he  was  granted  a  lar,!;e  tract  of  land  by 
the  Hritish  j;overninent.  lie  formed  a  mili- 
tary company  in  Charlotte  t'onnly,  which  |)er- 
fiiinied  valuable  service  in  keep.,.!;'  down  out- 
breaks; anil  he  was  a  member  of  the  fnst 
Council  before  the  j;overnnient  of  the  Province 
was  formed,  lie  died  in  St.  George  at  about 
sixty  years  of  a);e. 

Patrick  Clinch,  son  of  c'a|)tain  Peter  Clinch, 
was  born  and  brouj^ht  U|)  on  the  farm  in  Char- 
lotte County,  and  was  _i;iven  a  good  education 
for  those  days.  He  founded  a  newspaper  at 
.St.  Andicws  kniiwn  as  the  rivviminlisl.  ]'"or 
a  number  of  vears  he  represented  Charlotte 
Counlv  in  the  Provincial  Le,i;islature,  and  for 
nianv  years  was  Inspector  of  Schools.  lie 
died  at  about  ei^hty-fonr  years  of  age.  I  Iks 
wife,  whdse  maiden  name  was  Lk'anor  Daxiil- 
son,  was  of  Scotch  descent. 

Their  son,  Peter  Clinch,  second,  father  of 
1).  Carlton  Clinch,  was  an  attorney  in  practice 
at  .St.  Cicorge.  He  married  .Sarah  Jose|)hine, 
the  daughter  of  the  late  Abraham  J.  W'etmore, 
of  St.  (ieorge,  also  of  Loyalist  descent.  Peter 
Clinch  and  his  wife  weie  the  parents  of  five 
children,  of  wliom  four  arc  living,  by  name 
Marion  ]•". ,  Lli/.abeth  W'..  1).  Carlton,  and 
I'etei'.  Their  father  died  in  1N54,  at  the  age 
of  thirty-four  years;  and  their  mother  died  in 
1895,  at  the  age  of  seventy-one  years. 


i  Coming  to  St.  John  as  a  youth  of  thirteen, 
'  1).  Carlton  Clinch  was  variously  employeil 
until  1S7',,  when  he  entered  the  banking  house 
of  .S.  Jones  &  Co.  as  clerk,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1SS2,  since  whicii  time  he  has 
carried  on  foi-  himself  an  extensive  banking 
and  brokerage  business.  Mr.  Clinch  married 
Susie  C.  McCullnm,  of  Maitland,  \.S.  He 
has  two  children  -  Douglas  W'etmore  and 
.\rchibalil  ( iordon. 


ILI.IAM  CLARK,  a  wide-awake, 
*^  "ublic-s|iiriteil  citi/en  of  Sackville, 
X.H.,  is  associated  with  its  mercantile  inter- 
ests as  manager  of  the  general  store  belonging 
to  his  father,  Stephen  Clark.  He  was  born 
November  2fi,  iSfii,  in  that  part  of  the  town 
known  as  W'dod  Point,  where  his  grandfather, 
the  late  James  Clark,  settled  in  icS'4,S. 

James  Clark  was  born  and  leareil  in  Ndva 
Scotia.  Learning  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith  in 
his  early  days,  he  followed  it  lirst  in  his  native 
town  and  later  at  Wood  Point,  where  he  re- 
sided fiom  iS4,S  nntil  his  death,  at  tiie  age  of 
si.xty-si\  years.  His  wife,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Cynthia  Sninvden,  lived  to  the  venerable 
age  of  eight\-nine  years.  They  had  six  chil- 
dren, of  whom  twi)  aie  now  living  .Stephen 
and  Mary.  The  latter  is  the  wife  of  James 
I'nid),  of  liritish  Columbia,  and  has  four  chil- 
dren-Dorcas, Mabel,  Henry,  and  |-"dwaril. 

Stephen  Clark  was  born  in  Nova  Scotia,  and 
was  there  bred  and  educated.  Kcmnving  to 
Wood  Point,  Sackville,  N.H.,  with  his  parents, 
he  engaged  in  farming  and  fishing  until    1S65, 


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when  he  embarked  in  mercantile  business,  in 
which  lie  has  been  very  successfully  eiif^aged 
until  the  present  time.  In  rell;;i()n  lie  is  an 
aj;ni)stic.  ]?y  liis  uninn  with  Mary  Jane  l)u,:;an 
he  has  three  children,  namely:  William,  tiie 
special  subject  of  this  sketch  ;  Jane,  who  is  the 
wife  of  John  Campbell,  of  St.  John,  N.H.,  and 
has  two  chiltlien  -  ('wen  and  luiward ;  and 
Mary,  wife  "f  Seward  Ji.hnsun,  of  this  I'rox- 
ince,  and  mother  (if  three  children  -  Herbert, 
\'ioln,  and  John. 

William  Ciaik  attended  the  schnols  at  Wood 
I'liint  during;  the  da\  s  of  his  ho_\hn(id  and 
youth,  and  subset|uently  made  several  voyages 
to  the  Kast  Indies,  to  lunopean  and  other  for- 
eign ports,  going  as  a  common  sailor.  When 
tired  of  life  en  the  ncean,  he  engaged  in  the 
business  of  stone  i|uarrying  at  W(i(jd  I'oiiU, 
continuing  thus  emi)loyed  until  1S97,  when  he 
retired  from  that  work  in  order  to  devote  his 
whole  time  and  energy  to  the  care  of  his 
father's  store,  of  which  he  had  had  the  practi- 
cal conti(d  for  live  previous  years.  He  has  a 
large  and  remunerati\e  tiade  in  general  mer- 
chandise. i\  man  of  progressive  ideas,  genu- 
inely interested  in  local  matters,  he  is  a  lib- 
eral sn]iporter  of  all  movements  likely  to 
advance  the  welfare  of  the  town  and  count). 
Ml'.  Clark  has  served  as  'Idwn  Councillor  two 
terms,  having  been  elected  to  that  office  in 
I  .S95  and  re-elected  in  iSg".  He  is  a  Conserv- 
ative in  politics  and  an   .igimstic    in   tlieidog\-. 

( )n  September  iS,  i.SSiS,  he  married  Cassie 
C,  daughter  of  Timothv  Richardson,  of  Wooil 
I'oint.  ( )f  this  union  thrive  children  have  been 
born;  nameh',  N'iida,  .Seward,  and  William  11. 


1-:NKY  IMAXWKI.L,  a  retired  lumber 


=n  manufacturer  of  St.  John,  is  a  native 
if  the  north  of  Ireland.  He  was 
born  May  7,  1806,  sou  of  Henry  and  Mary 
(Kowentree)  Ma.xwell.  His  ancestors  came 
from  Scotland.  In  I1S26  he  crossed  the  ocean 
to  New  liiunswick,  and  locating  in  .St.  John 
was  first  em[doyed  in  loading  vessels  with  lum- 
bei-.  He  later  worked  in  a  shipyard  for  a  year, 
and  then  betook  himself  to  the  wililerness, 
where  in  due  time  he  cleared  a  good  farm  situ- 
ated on  the  (iagetown  Road,  at  what  is  now 
Summer  Hill.  .After  an  experience  of  seven 
years  as  a  farmei,  he  returned  to  St.  John,  and, 
resuming  work  in  a  shipyard,  continued  in  that 
occupation  for  the  succeeding  three  years.  He 
then  I'ligageil  in  preparing  tindier  for  ship- 
building purposes,  from  which  dex'elojied  the 
extensive  and  successful  business  carried  011  bv 
him  for  so  many  years,  and  upon  bis  retirement 
he  was  succeeded  by  his  sons.  .After  retiring 
from  the  lundier  business  he  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  the  im|iro\eme;it  of  real  estate,  and 
erected  ten  line  dwelling  houses,  '  inr  of  wliich 
were  afterward  destroved  by  tire. 

(In  l'"ebruaiy  11,  1S35,  Mr.  .Maxwell  was 
united  in  marriage  with  bdi/a  Corbett,  who 
came  from  Ireland  with  li'.'r  father,  James  Cor- 
bett, in  iSjo.  The  late  Joseph  Medill,  of  the 
Chicago  7'rihin.r,  was  her  nephew.  Mr.  and 
Airs.  Maxwell  ha\e  had  twelve  children,  iianely  : 
William  Heiir\,  of  .San  l'"rancisco,  Cal.  ;  James 
C.,  of  l-'rcdericton,  N'.H.  ;  Richard,  .Samuel  R., 
ami  Charles  II.,  all  of  .St.  John;  Jane  .M.,  who 
married  Richard  Holt,  of  .Selkirk,  Man.,  anil 
died  in  1ISS6;   Mary,  widow  of  Lewis  W.  i.ing- 


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ley,  late  (if  St.  Jnlm ;  .W'nc  I',.,  witc  ol 
Judge  (i.  W.  lUirliiil^'c,  ol  ()ll,i\\a;  Ann  I',. 
('.,  wile  III  \V.  r.  Court,  dl  St.  J.ilin;  lieillia 
1'. ,  wliii  married  Jdiin  S.  Hale,  ut  (  Htawa ; 
l''.mnia  ( ', ,  wim  manieil  K.  W.  Me(',irl\.  ol  St. 
jnhn;  ,ind  I'llla  Medill,  wile  cil  J.  I'.,  \arra- 
way,  <il  ( 'ttawa. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Maxwill,  who  have  pa.ssed 
.si.\ty-f(iiir  years  of  their  Ii\es  as  man  and  wife, 
iiave  tniind  nutiiinn  hut  liappiness  in  eaeh 
nthi'r's  siieietx,  and  have  lived  In  see  their  ehil- 
dreii  well  provided  for.  ^Mlhongh  ninety-three 
years  of  a^e,  Mr.  Maxwell  still  retairis  mnrli  of 
the  nu'nlal  ;;nd  ph\siial  vi,i;oi  whieh  ehai.ieler- 
i/ed  him  dminj;  his  aeti\e  years,  and  his 
stroni;  lonst itution  has  enabled  him  to  survive 
many  ot  his  business  ;• 'soeiates.  l''cir  maiiv 
years  he  was  a  i  lass  leader  and  a  trustee  of  the 
Methodist  ehureh. 


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.Wli'.I.  MLM.I.IX,  n.C,  one  of  the 
js  J  leadinj;'  memht'rs  of  his  profession 
in  .St.  John,  X.M.,  his  natixe  eity, 
is  the  son  of  I'atriek  Mnllin  an<l  his  wife, 
Catherine  Riee,  who,  emigratinj;  from  Cork 
County,  Ireland,  tirst  settled  in  St.  John,  sub- 
seciuently  removed  to  Westmorland  County, 
residing  there  on  a  farm  for  many  \ears,  and 
linallv  returiu'd  to  St.  John.  It  will  thus  be 
seen  that  the  future  lawyer  in  his  )'outh  com- 
muned with  nature,  and  doubtless,  amid  New 
Hnmswick  forests  primeval,  did  "find  tongues 
in  trees,  books  in  the  running  binoks,  sermons 
in  stones,  and  good  in  evciylbing.  " 

Mr.     Mullin    w.is    eilueated     in     the    public 


schools  in  Westmorland  ('mmly  and  by  tin' 
Christian  Hrotiiers,  .St.  John.  lii'  studie<l  law 
with  the  lion.  C.  N.  Skinner,  <J.C.,  the  jires- 
ent  Recorder  of  the  city,  was  admitted  an  at- 
tornev  in  June,  iS.Sj,  and  called  to  the  bar  the 
following  year. 

I'intering  into  partneiship  with  the  Hon.  J. 
Ciordnn  l'"orbes,  now  Judge  of  the  .St.  John 
CounU'  Coint,  under  the  lirm  name  of  l""orbes 
^i:  Mullin,  he  I'ujoM'd  uitli  him  for  a  period  ol 
Tux- years  an  extensive  practice  in  marine  and 
mercantile  law,  .Subsecpientl)-  associating 
hiniself  with  Riihard  I''.  (Juigley,  I'h.l). , 
I.I..  1).,  <;}■<■'■.  the  firm  of  tjuigley  S:  .Mullin 
becaiue  wideK  known,  h.iving  been  engaged  in 
manv  important  cases  with  marked  success. 

Mr.  Mullin  has  been  jiractising  on  his  own 
account  for  the  |)ast  few  years.  lie  was  re- 
centU'  appointe<l  by  the  Lieutenant  Cmvernor 
in  Council  of  New  Hiunswick  one  of  llei 
Majesty's  Counsel,  learned  in  the  law,  his 
t'ommission,  imder  the  Great  Seal  of  the  Prov- 
ince, dating  July  2S,   1899. 

Ills  reputation  for  integrity  and  honiualde 
conduct  is  of  the  highest,  while  his  success  as 
a  lawyer  has  been  notable  in  all  branches  of 
the  piofession.  It  is  in  the  criminal  courts, 
however,  that  he  has  attained  his  greatest  dis- 
tinction. 1 1  is  acbie\'i'ments  in  tlu'  defcnci'  of 
pi  isoners  ha\e  been  indeed  remarkable,  and  be 
is  to-dav  regarded  as  probably  the  niosi  power- 
ful advocate  at  the  bar  in  such  cases. 

bSsi'ul  iailv  modest,  as  he  is  known  lo  be,  be 
could  make  the  jiroud  boast  (were  it  not  for  his 
rigid  legard  for  truth,  which  as  a  hiwyer  is  not 
the  least  of  his  merits,  and  which  compels  him 


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n.\ 


to  ackniiwlodni'  (ino  solitary  oxcoplioii)  that  he 
iic\ci"  lust  a  1 1  iciiinal  casi'  licfdii'  a  jury,  tlunigh 
lif  has  hi'i'n  ongaj^cd  in  a  great  mimhi'r  n| 
thfiii.  'rriiim|iii  ha^  lnjldwi'd  triiimiiji,  and 
witiiiii  till.'  last  li'W  yoars  lu'  has  liad  ati  un- 
hrokcii  series  of  a  ilo/eii  siuli  \ietiiries  to  Ids 
credit.  lie  pussesses  in  an  eminent  (K';,'ree 
the  (|ualit  ie>  wldi'li  j;ii  tn  ilie  niaiseiip  nt  ilie 
successtid  nisi  /'liiis  advueate,  his  preduininani 
eliaractcrislic  lieiny  intense  furee  eoupjid  with 
eonsnnunate  taet  and  an  intintive  kniiwled;;e  nt 
human  natuie. 

When  tiiuroughly  ainu^ed,  his  furensic  ehi^ 
([uenee  is  nt  ;i  lii^di  nrdei',  and  lias  heen  ^reat]\- 
admired  Ilisspeeih  in  tlie  detenec  of  Iloraee 
(i.  Hurtnn,  svhn  was  hrnu.i;lu  I'mni  'I'drnnto  nn 
a  warrant  charging  him  with  endiezzlement  of 
a  large  sum  nt  innney  tmm  liis  t.'mplnyers, 
Messrs.  1'.  I'',  (nllier  &  dt.  (a  New  Wnk  puli- 
lislung  iinuse  with  a  branch  in  St.  John,  uf 
whieii  lUirtnn  had  iieen  mana,i;tr),  and  tried  in 
tlie  .St.  Jnlm  Cnunty  Cnint  in  May,  11^9",  was 
pKinnunced  in'  man\'  persnns  wlin  Iieard  it  tn 
lie  the  linesl  address  deli\ercd  in  tlie  St.  Jnhn 
cnurtdinuse  since  .S.  R.  'riinnisnn's  taiimus 
speech  in  the  Munrne  murder  trial  tliirt)'  vears 
ago.  On  this  nccasinn  Mr.  Mullin's  address, 
wliii'h  was  a  merciless  criticism  of  tlie  nietlintls 
pursued  by  the  parties  behind  the  jirosecution 
and  an  impassioned  appeal  to  the  symjiathies 
of  the  jury,  occupied  over  two  hours  in  delivery 
and  evoked  deep  emotion,  causing  many  nt  tlie 
iiu)'  and  spectators,  ;is  \w\\  as  tlie  prisoner 
himself,  to  shed  tears,  (,)n  being  accpiitted, 
Miirton,  with  an  excess  of  feeling,  dramatically 
embraced  his  counsel.      The  ease  e.xcitcd  much 


interest;  :ind  the  unexpected  actpiittal  of  the 
prisoner,  who  was  a  cnmp.irali\e  stranger  in 
till'  city  and  wlinse  donm  to  incarci'iatinn  for  a 
long  term  in  tlu'  penitent iary  had  ln'cn  a  fore- 
gime  conclusion  in  public  istini.it ion,  though 
a  great  surprise,  produced  a  revulsion  of  sonti- 
nieiit  on  the  part  of  the  public  towaid  him. 

Although  Ml.  Mullin,  by  fnrie  nf  nierit 
alone,  now  pr.iclic.ilK  inonnpidi/i's  this  braiuh 
nf  the  prnjessinii  i:i  .St.  Jnhn,  yet  he  has  no 
speei.il  likinj'  fnr  it,  and  prelers  his  general 
practice,  which  is  huge  and  varied  and  con- 
stantly increasing. 

.Mr.  Mullin  is  a  I  .iberal-Cniiserxative  in 
politics,  enjoying  a  high  reputation  as  an 
oratoron  piditical  subjects,  and  taking  an  ac- 
tive interest  in  the  welfare  nf  his  party,  which 
he  believes  is  still,  as  it  was  in  days  gnno  by, 
the  truest  exponent  nf  Canadian  nat iniialit)-,  as 
well  as  the  ever  Inyal  guardian  nf  the  best  in- 
terests nf  the  I'',m|iire,  faithful  alike  to  its 
ideals    in    pnwei'   or  out   <if    it. 

Mr.  Mullin  is  yet  a  voimg  man  on  the  sunny 
side  of  lolly.  He  is  a  Catholic  in  religion, 
a  Keleree  in  Mquitv,  a  bachelor,  and  a  member 
of  the  Union  Club.      Residence,  Carvill  Hall, 

St,  lohii,  \,n. 


(^.\Mi:S  Ki:\.\l'.I)\',  president  of  the 
Canadian  Drug  Company,  St.  joliii,  w.is 
bniii  in  .Ayrshire,  Scotland,  .March, 
iS^j,  son  of  (ii'orge  and  Marv  ((iray)  Ken- 
nedy. The  death  of  his  parents,  which  oc- 
curred when  he  was  twelve  years  old,  threw  him 
upon  his  nwii  resources;  ami  he  was  employed 


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upon  fa. ns  until  iiSc/,  wlion  ho  iniij^iated  to 
New  Hrunswick.  Resuming  his  [/.ovious  oc- 
cupation after  his  arri  .'al,  he  hiter  took  chaij;e 
of  a  huge  farm  in  Moncton,  N.  1?. ,  wIktc  ho 
lomainod  al/out  two  years.  Cominj^;  to  St. 
John  in  iSf')i,  ho  ontereii  tiio  eniph))  <it  tiie 
wholesale  ami  retail  j;roccry  firm  of  Janline  & 
Co.,  with  whom  he  remained  iwohe  years;  and 
in  187-;  he  ostablish.ed  hini-olf  in  tiio  uliole- 
salc  fish  and  provision  business  on  South 
Whrni'.  l'"or  the  suecoedin;;  twenty  years  he 
carried  on  a  ijrofitablo  mercantile  husinos.^,  and 
also  acipiir'"!  lari,'e  ^.hiplling  interests,  having 
l)uilt  five  shi]is,  t'.ie  chartering  of  which  he 
.itten('e(l  to  personally,  and  being  part  owner  in 
several  others.  Having  disjiosed  of  his  marine 
propeit\'  with  the  exception  of  two  ships, 
which  ho  still  owns,  ho  retired  from  moican- 
tilo  business  in  1S93,  r.nd  for  the  jiasl  \'\w 
years  has  boon  engaged  in  caring  for  his  in- 
\estments.  He  has  been  president  of  the 
CanaiKan  Drug  Comi^uiv  ever  since  its  organ- 
ization in  1S95.  and  he  was  the  ol'ficial  he;,d 
of  the  Joggins  Coal  Mining  .\ssociation,  which 
sold  its  i)roperty  in  1.S92.  His  iirominence  in 
the  business  circles  <•!  St.  John  has  been  at- 
tained solely  'hrough  his  ability,  perseverance, 
and  |)rogressive  in;tincts. 

Mr.  Kennodv  was  married  in  1  .STio  to  Miss 
Isabella  Longhead.  '1  hey  have  had  seven  chil- 
(  I,  i..niiely :  Mary  iira\',  wife  of  the  Rev. 
I,,  li.  Macneill,  pastor  of  St.  Andrew's  I'res 
byteri.ni  ,'hurili,  .St.  'ohn ;  William  Ramsay, 
master  of  the  .'ihin  "'Cleadmoor,  "  owned  by  his 
father;  James  H^rr  Ker.nedy,  v.'ho  died  in 
Idaho  at  the  age  of  twenty-eight  yturs;  Isabel 


Margaret,  wh<>  died  at  the  age  of  two  years; 
David  .\le.\ander  am!  (ieorge  Kerr,  merchants 
in  this  city;  and  Robert  J.,  who  died  at  the 
ago  of  six  months. 

Ml'.  Kennedy  belongs  to  the  Masonic  order, 
and  is  president  of  the  Thistle  Curling  Club, 
of  which  he  has  been  a  member  e\er  since  its 
organization,  somi'  twenty-two  years  ago.  I.1 
his  religious  belief  bo  is  a  rresbyterian,  and 
is  one  of  the  elders  of  St.  Andrew's  Church. 


KI,.\M)()  II.  \V.\K\VICK,  of  St. 
John,  wholesale  an  '  retail  dealer  in 
crockery  and  china  ware,  was  b(nn  in 
.St.  John,  January  ^j,  1.S49,  son  of  William 
and  .Susanna  (Ilayward)  Warwick. 

Wi'liani  Warwick,  bon>  in  Di;d)\-,  \..S., 
was  tlio  son  of  a  I.oy:'.list  settlor  from  X'irginia. 
'  He  received  his  education  in  Si.  John,  X.H., 
j  and  on  reaching  manhood  engaged  in  the  hard- 
ware business  in  that  city.  Si:l)se'iuently  he 
went  into  the  shipping  and  commission  bnsi- 
iiess.  and  at  one  time  was  in  ihe  groci'ry  busi. 
ness.  In  1S5J,  without  reliniiuishing  his 
shipping  and  commission  operations,  he  en- 
gage<l  in  the  crockery  business  with  Mr.  Will- 
iam I',  llaywai'd,  Mr.  II. i\  ward  having  charge 
of  the  crockery  department.  The  firm  contin- 
ued until  1S7'  when  Mr.  Warwick  sold  out  to 
his  partner.  Ariion-  other  business  enterprises 
Mr.  Waruii'k  e>tablished  the  manufactiuo  of 
! ottoiv  in  .Si.  Join. 

Ho  was  an  ac.iv,   member  of   the   Methodist 

cr.urch,  ami  took   an   especial  interest  in    Sun- 

lay-school   work.      He  with   Mr.  Robert   I'"rost 


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or^'aiiized  a  Suiulay-school  on  the  Marsli  Road, 
furiiishin<,  and  fittinj;-  up  a  room  at  their  oivii 
expense.  This  was  afteiward  nK'ri;e(l  into 
the  I'lxMiouth  Street  Methodist  Siinda\ -sehool. 
His  interest  in  Sunday-schocds  was  not  con- 
lined  to  those  of  his  own  denomination,  hnt 
emhraeed  otiicrs  of  all  tiie  evangel ieal  denom- 
inations. 

Iliswife  was  a  (lauf;hter  of  William  Ilay- 
ward,  of  Susse.\,  N.li.  'I'liey  liad  two  chil- 
dren, namely:  Orlando  II.,  the  sjieeial  sub- 
ject of  this  ski'ti'h  ;  and  Sarah  .M.,  who  is  the 
wile  of  W.  1'".  I.inton,  (jf  Truro,  N.S.  After 
jjiving  up  his  business  [  St.  John.  Mr.  War 
v.ick  rem'ned  to  Lawrencetown,  .\.  S. ,  wiiere 
he  resided  until  his  death,  which  (jccurred  on 
( Ictober  25,  i.S'cjo.  Mrs.  Warwick,  who  sur- 
vives hei-  husband,  is  now  a  resident  of  Truro, 
N.  S. 

Orlando  II.  W'aiwick  was  rearetl  and  edu- 
cated ill  his  nati\e  i'it\-,  .St.  hihn.  In  i.S(')4 
lie  went  to  .St.  .Stc|ihcii,  \.H.,  with  his  cousin 
James  S.  Clark.  whot>)  Mr.  William  War- 
wick, his  father,  had  started  theie  in  ihecroek- 
er\  business.  .Siibsetpiently  returninj;  to  St. 
John,  in  [SC)^  he  entered  the  stori;  carried  on 
h\-  hiy  lather  and  .Mr.  Ilayward,  where  he  was 
employed  as  clerk  until  1 S70.  In  that  \ear 
he  became  a  member  of  the  tirm,  and  so  re- 
maineil  until  iS;^,  w  he  ■  Mr.  I  layward  ptn-- 
cliased  the  business.  In  i.Sjj  he  estaidished 
his  present  l)usiness  on  the  north  side  of  Kin^ 
Street,  \ihere  he  conducted  it  loi-  sonu'  ten 
years.  la  iS,S7  he  lemoved  to  his  present 
commodious  quarters  on  the  south  side  (jf  Kinj; 
Street,    where  lie    now  carries   on    the    largest 


wholesale  and  retail  crockery  and  cliina  ware 
business  in  the  Maritime  Provinces.  He  is  a 
mendier  of  the  (juarterlv  Hoard  of  the  (jneen's 
Street  Methodist  Church  and  tieasurer  of  the 
St.  John  I'rotcstant  Orphan  Asylum.  Mr. 
Orlando  II.  Warwick  married  in  1.S75  Miss 
Ida  May  I.ockhart,  a  dau};hter  of  the  late 
Alexander  I.ockhart,  a  prominent  ship-owner 
of  St.  John,  formerly  of  St.  Martins.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Warwick  have  five  children  —  tJeorge, 
Ida  May,  William,  Orlando  II.,  Jr..  and 
Charles  J. 


W\I;T1':R  McSWKKNI-:V,  a  prominent 
business  man  of  Moncton,  \.  H  ,  ,is 
been  intinlately  associated  with  its 
mercantile  interests  for  thiee  decades,  and  bv 
his  upright  dealiiij;s  has  won  the  resiiect  and 
esteem  of  all  with  w'lom  he  has  come  in  con- 
tact, lie  was  horn  in  ^lonctnn,  April  II, 
1S4J,  a  son  of  I'etcr  and  Joanna  (Downing) 
.Mc.Swc'cney.  (I-'uither  p.uental  history  may 
be  liiund  in  Kmncttior  with  the  sketch  of  bis 
brother,  (icorgi'  MiSwcency,  on  another  jiage 
of  this  work. ) 

I'cter  McSweenev  received  his  iilucation  in 
tlu'  schools  of  .Moncton,  and  when  but  a  \dnth 
went  to  .St.  John,  wiiere  lu'  was  emploved  as 
clerk  in  a  store  for  thirteen  consecutive  years. 
Returning  to  Moncton  in  1.S6.S,  he  became  a 
member  of  the  (nni  of  .McSweenev  ihdthers, 
which  for  several  years  dealt  e.\tensivel\-  in 
carpi  ts  and  fiunitme.  In  iS^.S  lie  opened  his 
preseiu  store,  which  is  dexoteil  to  the  sale  of 
dry  goods  and  gentlemen's  furni.shing  goods,  in 


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wliitli  lie  lias  a  lari;!.'  trade.  I'roni  the  start  lie 
lias  met  with  success  in  his  dealings,  and  has 
■.i(i\v  the  leadiiifi  estahlishnient  nf  the  kind  in 
the  vicinity.  Mr.  McSweeney  is  identified 
with  the  l.ilier.il  parts-  in  politics,  and  has 
ably  filled  vaiimis  otfices  of  trust,  lie  was  for 
two  years  a  nieniiicr  of  the  Town  Cnuncil,  and 
served  as  chairman  of  the  Almshouse  Commit- 
tee and  as  the  chairman  of  its  Hoard  of  Trus- 
tees. ( )n  March  lO,  i.S()9,  Mr.'  McSweene)- 
was  apjiointed  .Senator  of  CaiKula. 

Mr.  McSweeney  was  married  Novend)er  ii, 
1S73,  to  Mrs.  Wilhelmina  Fisher,  widow  of 
the  late  J'eter  l-'isher,  of  .St.  John,  N.  H. 
Three  children  have  been  l)orn  of  this  union; 
namely,  ("ora,  Aliicrnon  (!. ,  and  Wilhelmina. 


f'^V\^()\<.r,i:  MiS\\i;i:xi;v,  of  :\ioncton, 

\|^J_  .\.H.,  is  familiarly  known  to  the 
trasellinj;  i)ul)lic  as  the  proprietor  (jf  the 
Brunswick  Hotel,  a  deservedly  jiopular  house, 
well  patronized  liy  home  .md  forei.i^n  tomists. 
He  was  1)0111  in  Moncton,  Januaiy  2 J,  li^-.^),  a 
son  of  the  late  I'eter  McSweeney,  who  for 
nearly  half  a  century  was  conspicuously  identi- 
fied with  the  i^rowtli  and  development  of  this 
sei'tioii  of  W'estmorluiul  County. 

I'eter  McSweenev  was  reared  to  manhood  in 
Kenmare,  County  Keriy,  Ireland,  where  he 
rcecixed  a  fine  hinglish  and  classical  education, 
which  w.c^  furtiier  advanced  liy  a  course  of 
stuih'  at  the  c<dl'-.L;e  (jI  Mavnooth,  in  1. cluster, 
Countv  Kildarc.  In  \X^~  he  came  with  his 
bride  to  New  Hiunswiik,  and,  ha\in,n  se  ed 
a  position    as     teacher    in    Hillsboro,    Albert 


County  taught  there  for  three  years,  succeed- 
ing tlie  Hon.  John  'ewis,  M.  L.C,  and  the 
late  Hon.  W.  H.  Steeves.  Coming  then  to 
the  "Hend,"  as  Moncton  was  called,  he  in- 
vested largely  in  real  estate  in  its  vicinity, 
buying  with  a  wise  forethought  property  that 
steaililv  mse  in  value  and  within  a  few  years 
proved  to  be  \eiy  desirable.  Realizing  the 
future  pros|)erity  awaiting  this  rapidly  giowing 
town,  he  hesitated  not  to  purchase,  as  oppor- 
tunity afforded,  such  lots  as  the  one  now  owned 
and  occupied  by  Norman  Heaton,  at  the  corner 
of  Main  and  Telegraph  Streets,  the  corner 
occupied  by  lulward  .\llcn  &  Co.,  at  the  junc- 
tion of  iSIain  and  Duke  .Streets,  and  the  lot 
now  occupied  b)'  li.  Tuombs  i^  Co..  on  the  ^  ii- 
iier  of  ]\Iain  and  Pleasant  Streets.  He  cccted 
for  his  i/wn  residence  the  second  house  |)ul  up 
on  .Sieadman  .Stree'..  He  also  owned  the  home- 
stead pro]icrtv  on  the  Mountain  Road  and  otlier 
estates  of  value.  His  last  purchase  was  the 
block  on  the  loiner  of  Main  and  Downing 
Streets.  H  is  e.Ncellent  business  judgment  led 
him  to  make  extensive  purchases  in  other  sec- 
tions of  the  Province,  including  St.  John, 
Kings,  Albeit,  and  Kent  Counties,  in  all  of 
which  be  bought  and  sold  lonsiderable  realty. 
For  many  }ears  he  was  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent general  merchants  of  Moncton,  as  well  as 
an  operator  in  real  estate;  but  about  fifteen 
years  prior  to  his  (le:ith,  which  occurred  in 
December,  iS^-rj,  he  retired  from  acti\e  pur 
suits,  content  to  enjoy  the  competeni)'  ,\hicli 
he  had  ;u'ipiired  by  prudence  and  foresight. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Liber.il,  anil,  besides  being 
one  of  the  first  Magistrates  aiipointecl  in  West- 


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niorland  County,  lie  had  tho  ilistinctiim  of 
being  the  very  fiist  Roman  Catholic  to  luiUl 
the  office.  His  wife,  wluise  maiden  name  was 
Joanna  Downing,  died  in  1876.  'I'liey  were 
the  parents  of  seventeen  cliildren,  of  whom  two 
sons  and  seven  daughters  are  now  living, 
namely:  Peter,  of  whom  a  hiograjjhy  ajjpears 
elsewheie  in  this  volume ;  (leorge,  the  subject 
of  thissketih;  Milcah,  wife  of  IIenr\'  Vonge, 
superintendent  of  the  Southern  Di\  ision  of  the 
Mexican  National  Railwa)-;  Mary,  wife  of 
I'.dgar  I,.  Newhouse,  superintendent  of  the 
Mexican  Guadahi]5e  Mining  Company;  Lucy, 
wife  of  J.  J.  Walker,  of  the  accountant's  o!"*ice 
of  tile  Intercolonial  Railway  in  Moncton ; 
I'lllen;    Agnes;    Joanna;    and  Kate. 

(ieorge  McSweeney  grailuated  fioni  the 
Menu'ancook  College  in  1M7.V  and  three  \ears 
later  entered  into  business  with  his  brothers  as 
one  of  the  firm  of  McSweenev  lirothers,  in 
which  lie  contiinied  until  1882.  He  was  sub- 
secpiently  in  business  alone  foi-  a  short  time, 
fur  two  years  dealii  1;  successfulh'  in  furniture 
and  carpets.  In  May,  1884,  desirous  of  mak- 
ing a  radical  change,  \\v  purchased  the  prop- 
erty known  as  the  W'eldon  House,  which  he 
enlarged,  remodelled,  and  lefurnishcd,  and  has 
since  conducted  with  eminent  success  uii(k'r 
its  present  title  of  the  Hiimswick  Hotel. 
Ill  politics  ,Mr.  McSv.eeney  is  a  I.ii)eral,  and 
since  attaining  his  majorit)  has  taken  an  in- 
telligent interest  in  public  aff.iirs.  In  1.SS5, 
1886,  and  i.S.Sj  he  served  as  .American  ('onsul, 
and  f,ir  four  years  he  repiesenlL'd  W'.ud  Three 
in  the  Town  (."ouncil. 

in  Septendjer,    1887,    Mr.   McSweenev    mar- 


ried Ik'atrice,  dauglter  of  the  late  Hon.  John 
Lefurgey,  of  .Sunnnerside,  IMv  I.  They  have 
two  children    -John  I-.  and  Dorothy  D. 


fs^OSl'M'H  D.  MAIII':R,  D.D.S.,  a  rising 
young  dentist,  was  born  in  what  was 
then  known  as  I'ortland,  \.H. ,  but 
whiih  is  now  included  in  the  city  of  St.  John. 
He  is  a  son  of  the  late  Joseph  and  Mary  I'.. 
(Delaney)  Maher. 

His  grandparents  were  John  and  Mary 
Maher,  Maurice  and  Anna  Delaney.  Tiie 
grandfather  Mahei'  was  for  many  years  a  shi|v 
bnilder  in  this  I'rovince.  He  died  about  1867. 
lie  was  the  father  of  eight  sons.  Of  tliese 
the  oidy  one  living  is  Ilemy  M.iher,  who  lias 
carried  on  the  grocerv  business  in  .St,  John  for 
many  years. 

Joseph  Maher,  Dr.  Mailer's  father,  was  a 
suivevor  of  recognized  abilitv,  and  followed 
that  business  until  his  deatli,  which  occurred 
about  the  )ear  1872.  Mrs.  Mary  !•;.  Maher,  a 
\erv  beautiful  woman,  nliowas  the  mother  of 
seven  children,  died  sliorti)  alter  her  husband. 
.S!ie  was  the  daughter  of  Maurice  Delane\',  who 
was  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  and  one  of  the 
most  respectetl  lili-cens  of  the(dil  town  of  I'oit- 
la"d.  The  surviving  children  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  Maher  are:  Maude;  and  Joseph  D.,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch.  IMaude  is  now  Madame 
Maher  of  the  .Sacred  Heart  Convent,  and  is  at 
piesent  loc;ited  in  ll;ilifa.\,   \..S. 

Josc|)li  1).  Maher,  who  is  still  single  and 
generally  spoken  of  as  pretty  comfortable,  pur- 
sued his  preliminai)  studies  in  I'ortland,  N.H. , 


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and    coinpletccl    his    cdiuatidn    at    St.    Mary's 

C()lli-'j;c,  Montreal. 

!lc   ljej;an    his   iirotcssinnal  studies  in  i.S<Sr), 

j^radnated  liom   the    Hostdn    Dental    ('ol!e.L;e  in 

Jnne,   iS'.Scj,  and   at    the   conclusion  of  a  [jost- 

trraduate   course   at   tiie    American    CollcLa-    of 

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Dental     .Surj^ery,    Lhica<.;o,    in     iMy3,    he    was 

awardeil  special  honors  for  extraordinar)'  pro- 
liciencN'.  While  pursuing;  his  jirolessional 
studies  he  \  isiled  some  of  tiie  i)rincipal  dental 
hospitals  in  luirope.  and  the  kno\vledj;e  de- 
rived from  ids  carefid  ohservation  lontrijjuted 
much,  no  doulit,  to  the  wondeiful  success  Uv 
has  attained.  In  the  fall  of  iSS^  he  l)ej;an  tlie 
practice  of  his  professi<in  in  tiie  North  Km], 
where  he  almost  immediately  ac(juired  popu- 
larity; and  his  ability  as  a  dentist  has  l)roUf;ht 
him  a  lari;e  Inisiiicss,  which  is  constantly  in- 
creasin<f. 

Dr.  Maher  is  entitled  to  practise  in  \ew 
\'oik  .Slate,  ami  is  also  the  onl\'  dentist  in 
New  Hiimswick  entitled  to  jnaitise  in  the 
I'ldxince  of  \o\a  .Scotia,  hcini;  fiilh  rej,d>teri'd 
in  both  places. 

Dr.  Mailer's  ability  as  a  dentist  may  be 
iud,s;ed  by  the  fact  that  lie  possesses  excellent  , 
testimonials  from  the  go\ernoi-,  preniii'i',  the 
late  ex-piemier,  mei  ors  of  the  ,i;o\ei  nment 
council  of  New  Hrunswiik,  the  mayor  of  -St. 
John,  and  many  others. 

In  1.S95  lie  advanced  the  idea  of  eslablishin;;-  | 
compidsory   e\amination    ol     children's    teeth, 
and   his    communication    to    the    school    board 
upon  that  subject   w.is   ver)    fa\or.d)l)-  receiveii 
by  the  ]nii)lic. 

His     parlors,     offices,     and     laboratory     are 


anion^  the  finest  in  the  Dominion,  and  he 
employs  a  staff  of  skilled  assistants.  Ifeis.i 
prominent  member  of  tlv  New  lirunswick 
Dental  Association,  whiih  he  heljied  to  form. 
l)v.  Maher  li\es  at  the  X'ictoria  Hotel,  Kinj; 
Street.  He  is  a  mend)er  of  the  Union  Club, 
and  has  a  host  of  friends. 


XfUf  11.1,1  AM    iML'RDOC'K,  civil  en-ineer 
and  superintendent  of  the  scwei-  anil 
ater  departments,  .St.  John,  was  boiii  in  Pais- 
ley, .Scotland,  April  \6,    i.S^.S,  sen   of  William 
and  .Marj;aret  (vSniith)  Murdock. 

William  Murdock,  Sr.,  was  born  in  i'.usley 
in  1X23.  Learnin;;  the  shoemaker's  trade,  and 
succeedinjf  when  a  younj,'  man  to  the  business 
established  by  his  father,  he  carried  it  on  for 
a  number  of  years.  In  1S54  he  was  induced  to 
come  to  St.  John  by  his  brother  (iilbert,  who 
emigrated  in  1.S42,  and  who  was  superintend- 
I'lit  of  the  water  woiks  from  I S49  until  his 
death,  which  occmred  in  1S94.  (  )n  his  arri- 
val in  St.  John,  William  Muidock,  .Sr.,  entered 
a  clothinj;'  store  carried  on  b\  C'ockburn  and 
(Iilbert  Murdock,  but  later  took  an  interest  in 
the  Albert  House  on  Market  .Scpuiie.  with 
which  he  was  connected  for  a  year.  He  was 
then  appointetl  b\-  the  {government  to  manufact- 
ure j^as  for  Partridge  Island  Light,  and,  re- 
signing from  the  service  in  iS^.S,  he  obtained 
em]do\nient  as  one  of  the  lir>t  of  the  conduc- 
tors of  the  I'jnujiean  and  Noi  th  .American,  now- 
intercolonial.  Railway.  Resigning  tiiat  posi- 
tion a  little  later,  he  turned  his  attention  to 
literary   and   journalistic    work,    for   which    he 


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had  a  decided  preference,  and  about  this  time 
ho  inil)lisiie(l  a  xolunic  of  jMienis,  wliiili  was 
favoraljly  received  by  tlie  ]Uiblic.  He  was  fur 
a  while  connected  with  the  Srii/tis/i  .liiiiilidii  I 
of  New  \'ori<,  and,  after  worlxinj;  at  the  siioe- 
niafier's  trade  a  sliort  time,  lie  tinned  his  atten 
tioii  wliollyto  newspaper  work,  wiiieli  lie  fol- 
lowed successfully  for  the  next  few  years,  ren- 
dering;' valuable  service  to  the  A/oniiiii^  .\'i  rt'.v 
and  the  'J'ili\<;;ni/<//.  lie  was  a  member  of  the 
St.  Andrews  .Society.  William  Muidock,  .Sr. , 
died  May  .j,  1S77.  His  wife,  Marj^aret, 
whom  he  married  in  iS-|.<,  was  the  mother  of 
eight  children,  namely:  John,  a  resident  of 
Brooklyn,  X.  ^'.  ;  William,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  (ieor^e,  who  resides  in  C"al^'ai_v, 
North-west  Tei  litorv,  and  was  its  hist  mayor; 
(iilberl,  who  was  drowned  at  ruj;wash  in  i  SS4  ; 
Mar.^aret,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-three; 
Mary,  who  died  in  infancy;  Joseph,  who  re- 
sides in  St.  John;  and  Mary,  second.  The 
first  four  were  born  in  .Scotland,  the  last  foiu' 
lieins;-  natives  of  .St.  John.  The  mother  died 
Auj,'ust   jS,    l.S.Sj. 

William  Murtlock,  son  of  William  and  Mai- 
j^aret,  was  educatetl  in  the  .St.  John  public 
schools.  .\fter  the  completion  of  his  course 
of  stud\'  he  bi'j^an  to  serve  an  apprenticeship 
in  a  foundrv,  where  he  remained  until  twenty- 
one,  and  while  learning  his  trade  he  spent  his 
evenings  in  stutlying  civil  engineering;  under 
the  guidance  of  Messrs.  Minnetle  and  Wel- 
ton.  llaving  |iassed  a  successful  examination 
for  the  crown  land  ser\  ice,  he  was  appointed 
Deputy  Surveyor,  a  ])osition  which  he  held  for 
a  number  of  }ears;    and  during   that   time   he 


did  consiilerable  surveying  for  private  parties. 
In  1894  he  was  ajipointed  to  succeed  his  uncle 
as  superintendent  of  the  water  works,  aiul  this 
])osition,  t<igether  with  that  of  engineer  of 
the  sewer  department,  he  is  now  filling  with 
marked  ability.  Like  his  fatiier,  he  possesses 
a  taste  foi-  journalistie  work,  and  at  one  time 
was  a  regular  reportei  for  the  daily  papers. 

In  Januai)-,  1.S76,  Mr.  Murdock  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  .Mar)  .\ugusta  Arm- 
strong, a  native  of  (ireenhead  I'arish,  of  Lan- 
caster, N.I?.,  and  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Arm- 
str(]ng.  The)'  have  eleven  children;  namely, 
("lilbert  (iray,  l""iank  S. ,  .\ithur  W.,  Jessie, 
Robert  J.,  Margaret,  hllsie,  Douglas  Roy, 
iXliee,    .Mar\,    and    Helen. 

Mr.  .Murdock  was  forincrl)-  a  meiid)er  of  sev- 
eral tem|)erance  societies,  also  cif  the  Indeiieii- 
dent  ( )rder  of  (  )(1(1  I'V'llows,  and  is  ikjw  a  mem- 
ber of  St.  .\iuliews  .Society.  He  and  his  fam- 
ily attend  .St.  Andrews  Presbyterian  Church, 
of  which  his  |)arents  were  members. 


ILI.I.X.M    HICKMAN,  lor  many  years 


one  of  the  most  energetic  and  enter- 
|irising  business  men  of  Dorchester,  N.  H. ,  is 
now  living  retired  from  active  pursuits,  al- 
though much  of  his  leisure  time  is  occupied  in 
attending  to  his  pri\ate  interests.  He  was 
born  .September  \2.  iSj^,  in  Dorchester,  a  son 
of  John  Hickman,  Jr.,  an  earlv  settler  of  this 
seilioii  of  Westmorland  Count}'. 

John  Hickman,  Sr. ,  his  paternal  grand- 
fathei',  was  born  and  brought  up  in  Holland, 
and  while  yet  a   lad  received   a  militai)  train- 


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c;iily  mature  life,  lie  settled  in  Deiry,  from 
wliicii  place  lie  and  five  of  Ins  brothers  enlisted 
in  the  Hrifisii  army.  His  brolluTS  were  all 
killed  at  the  iamoiis  battle  of  Waterloo,  after 
whiih  he  returned  to  his  home  in  Derry, 
where  he  devoted  himself  to  the  eare  of  his 
aged  parents,  and  spent  the  remainiler  of  his 
life. 

John  Hickman,  Jr.,  son  of  John,  Si.,  was 
born  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  and  there  grew  to 
man's  estate.  Soon  after  his  marriage  with 
Mary  Campbell,  a  bomiie  Scotch  lassie,  lie  left 
the  l-'.merald  Isle,  and,  coming  to  the  liiitisb- 
Anierican  rmvinces,  located  first  at  JIalifax, 
N.  S. ,  but  soon  removed  to  Dorchester,  X.  H. , 
which  he  made  his  permanent  residence. 
After  working  at  the  shoemaker's  trade  for  a 
few  ye.us,  he  opened  a  hotel,  and  this  be  con- 
ducted with  great  success  until  his  letirement 
from  business,  about  si.\  years  prior  to  his 
deatii,  whicii  occurred  when  he  was  seventy 
years  (dd.  He  was  a  Liberal  in  politics  and 
a  citi/.en  of  worth.  His  widow  sur\i\ed  liim, 
attaining  a  venerable  age.  ( )f  their  nine  chil- 
dren three  are  now  living;  namely,  William, 
the  special  subject  of  this  sketch;  Mar_\'  Jane; 
and  .Susan. 

William  Hickman  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Dorchester.  For  about  four 
years  during  his  youth  and  early  manhood  he 
followed  the  sea.  He  sid)se<;|uently  embarked 
in  the  hotel  business  in  Dorchester,  and  also 
engaged  to  a  considerable  extent  in  sbi|)  build 
ing.  The  latter  industry  proved  so  engross- 
ing that  Mr.  Hickman  dis|)osed  of  his  hotel,  in 


order  that  he  might  give  his  whole  time  to 
commercial  and  manufacturing  pmsuits.  lie 
biult  four  ships  at  Lower  Ilillsboro  and 
twenty-five  barcpies  and  ships  on  D(nchester 
Island.  I'or  sever.il  \ears  he  was  the  leading 
spirit  in  the  develoiiment  of  the  shipping  tiade, 
which  was  then  at  its  height  in  this  jiart  of  the 
country,  and  not  oidy  built  ships,  but  stocked 
them  and  scut  them  to  foreign  ports.  He  es- 
tablished an  t'.Ntensive  domestic  .ind  fmeign 
trade,  which  be  contiinied  for  some  time. 
He  was  also  interested  in  various  town  enter- 
prises until  his  retirement  from  active  pursuits 
in  i.SSi).  ]"raternall\,  he  is  a  Mason,  belong- 
ing to  the  Dorchester  Lodge,   I',  tk  .A.  M. 

Mr.  Hickman  has  been  foin- times  mariied. 
His  present  wife  was  formerly  Miss  Harriet 
Cochrane,  of  Dorchester.  His  oni\'  child, 
Charles  .S.  Hickman,  is  tlie  son  (if  bis  tliinl 
wife,  whose  niaiden  name  was  Margaret 
L'mnes. 


IIOMAS  HAKKW  for  many  years  a 
])romiueiU  citi/enof  .St.  (ieorge,  Chai- 
lotte  Countx',  N.H..  was  born  in  this  ])arish, 
April  M,  iSji,  and  died  at  bis  houu'  in  l<S'<)5, 
aged  seventy-fom  years.  His  father  was  horn 
and  bi'ougbt  up  in  Irehuid,  whence  he  emi- 
grated to  this  c(juntry  when  be  was  Ncumg,  and 
located  in  the  town  of  St.  (iecJige.  He  worked 
as  a  lumberman,  ,uid  w.iile  yet  in  the  prime  of 
a  vigorous  manhood  was  acciilentally  killed  by 
the  falling  of  a  tree. 

Thomas  Hans'  was  educated  in  the  conunou 
schools,  and,  having  been  left  fatherless  at  an 
early  age,  was  thrown  upon   bis  own   resources 


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became  an 

exielient  lepieseiitative  nl'   tlie  sell- 

Jiiiwduin  ('(iliege,  Me.,  and  after  receivin,:;  the 

made  men 

1. ...:..        .     1- 

111    his  day.       He   first    emliaiked    in 
..   1  * I  i                 1     1    .  . 

(Ie);iee  ol    Doctor  of   Medicine  was  enjj,a^ed    in 

.1       .  .      ...      . .-   t  '      _  .    1*       ■          .    1 ..     I '.      1 

husiiH'ss    for   himself   as   a   j;eiuTal    inenhaiil 
and  soon  after  till  lied  hi->  altenlioii  to    liimhei- 


lle  I 


H'i^an  on  a  moilcsl  sci 


lint  j^radii- 


peiations,  and,    in   addition 


lands 


investei 


all)-  enlarged   his 

to    Iniyinj;   tiniher 

inilliiin    |iio|iiTty  and    farms,    his   |iinchas(. 

this    line    extendiim    for    several    miles. 


ii'ieh'    in 


lit 


nilt    at    one  lime  a  larue  mill, 


dl 


eiiuiniiei 


with  all  the  recinisite  machinery  for  immediate 


lint  wliuh,  howe\er,  was  never  iis(.'( 


tor 


Ih 


nienioialile 


'Sa\li\ 


j;ale,"  which  levelled  the  timber  and  destro\ed 
tlu'  forests  for  many  miles,  ]iractieall\  criiiplcd 


til 


lumber    indiistiA    lor  a  time. 


II 


e   siilise- 


(lueiillv  !;a\i'  up  the  nKiniilaetiiiiii' 


III  111  the  |irincipal  1111 


lis  of  this  section  lia\il 


lieeli    more   or 


less    injured  by  the  ^ale 


for  a  time  he  was  prominently  I'onnected  with 
the  l^ay  of  {•'uiuly  Red  (iraiiite  Works  as  one 
of  the  leading  stoekholdei  s  of  the  (.■onipain 
that  coiUiolled  them  Mr.  J!air\'  was  also  in- 
terested in  the  railway  systems  of  the  |)iov- 
ince,  and  for  nine   \eais  was   pri'sident  of  the 


Grand     .Soulheiii,    now 
I  ie   was  a  t'oiiserx  at  i\  i 


ll 


u'    .Shun 
ilitic: 


lid  f( 


III 


took  an  active  part  in  town  nuitters,  a 
number  of  _\ears  was  Justice  of  the  i'eai 
was  a  member  of  the  Chinch  of  Mnj^land  and 
for  several  \ears  a  \esU\ni.in  of  ilie  I'aiish 
t'luirch  al  St    l  icor.ne. 

On  May  16.   185:;,  iMr.   Harry  married  Jane, 


ilan^hu 


if   William 


.Marv  Russell.      Slu 


the  praclii'c  of   his   prol\'ssion   at    .St.   .Stephei 

and    .St.    (ieor;;e   until   his   death,    eight    \ears 

latei  ;    and  Jennie,  educated   at    .Si.    Catherine 


Hall,    Augusta,     .Me. 


mil    now    the    wife    of 


II 


ur\'   (Joodenow, 


]■; 


On 


1^1. 


1  S(i(>, 


.Mr.   Harry  married  .So|)hia,  ikiiightei  of  .Samuel 


and    .Mar\    .\i 


Walk 


Mi 


W 


mace  was 


educated  al  a  private  school  in  .St.  J' 
under  .Mrs.   II mil. 


\.  li. 


ii.I.I.XM      C()I.WI':i.I,,     formerly    a 


well  known  fish  dealer  of  .St.  John, 
was  liorn  March  19,  iSdcS,  son  of  John  and 
Marv    (lliitchiiigs)    Colwell.      11  is  grandlalln'r 


Cohvell    came 


to      .\l 


Hi 


iiinswirk    with     the 


Loyalists  in  i7iS3,and  settled  near  Long  Inlet, 
(•iieins  County,  where  he  followed  farming. 

John  Colwell  passed  his  youth  on  his  father's 
f.irm,  and,  after  attaining  to  years  of  maturity, 
was  for  a  lime  engaged  in  agriculture.  .Sub- 
seijueiilly  forsaking  this  occupation,  he  engaged 
in  fishing,  which  he  followed   for  many  years. 


Hi 


ife,   M; 


i-y 


I  lute 


.inalist 


S    Cn 

leiil. 


himself,    of 

famih'    of      tl\e    sons     and     llirei'     daui 


like 


diter,- 


nameh  :     !•; 


jtl 


izalietli,    now    deceasei 


Willi    was 


the 


ife  of  Tl 


if  Carletiin;   Will 


iani,  ihe  subject  of   tins    sketth; 


lolin  ; 


.Susan,    whi 


if  Carleli 


]•; 


obeit 


tharl 
.Marv. 


•s  ;    1  .ev  i  ; 

1  lannn, 

Th.'    last 


(1    died     wlu'l 


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^i.xlecn     \ears     old 


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TEST  TARGET  (MT-3) 


1.0 


I.I 


1.25 


HIM  IM 

S  "f  IB 

2.0 


U    ill  1.6 


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BIOGRAPHICAL   REVIEW 


John  Colwcll,  the  father,  died  in  1853,  at  the 
age  of  seventy-four  years.  His  wife  survived 
him  seven  years,  dying  in  November,   i860. 

William  Colwcll,  after  attending  the  :om- 
mon  sehools  in  his  boyhood,  engaged  in  the 
fish  business,  which  he  followed  for  many 
years.  In  1S71  he  and  his  son.  luioch  15., 
formed  a  partnershi])  as  wholesale  dealers  in 
all  kinds  of  fresli  and  salt  water  fish  and 
Liverpool  salt,  which  business  they  conducted 
together  until  his  death  in  1875.  William  Col- 
well  was  one  of  the  prominent  merchants  of  the 
l)lace,  and  was  much  respected  for  his  sterling 
personal  character.  He  was  a  charter  member 
and  tiie  first  treasurer  of  the  Masonic  lodge  in 
Carlet(.'n.  He  was  also  a  Deacon  of  the  liap- 
tist  church  for  many  years. 

In  1829  Mr.  Colv.ell  married  Milliccnt, 
daughter  of  Charles  Hanim,  drand  Hay,  Kings 
County,  now  deceased.  She  was  born  in  1809, 
and  died  in  1894,  surviving  her  husband  nine- 
teen years.  Their  ciiildien  were  five  in  'lum- 
ber; namely,  William,  Charles,  Susan,  Milli- 
cent,  aiul  l-jioch  \\.  Their  son  William,  who 
for  fifteen  years  held  a  government  position  in 
the  custoin-house,  subsequently  went  to  tiie 
United  .States.  Charles  followed  fishing  for  a 
few  )ears,  then  engaged  in  the  grocery  busi- 
ness, in  which  he  continued  until  his  deatii,  in 
the  spring  of  1898.  .Susan  is  the  wife  of  Dr. 
James  .S.  White,  of  Hartland,  Carleton  County, 
N. H.  Milliccnt  is  the  wife  of  Thomas  Thomp- 
son, a  contractor  of  St.  John. 

Mnoch  W.  Colweli,  born  in  1849,  was  edu- 
cated in  the  ])ublic  schools  of  Carleton.  In 
1871  he  engaged  in  the  lish  business  with   his 


father,  the  firm  being  known  as  William  Col- 
wcll &  Son.  Since  the  oeath  of  the  elder 
partner  the  younger  has  conducted  the  business 
alone,  dealing  in  fish,  salt,  and  coal.  He  does 
an  extensive  business,  his  markets  being  prin- 
cijially  in  the  United  StUes.  He  was  electeil 
to  the  City  Council  in  1878  from  (iu\'s  Ward, 
re-elected  in  1882,  and  again  in  1894  and 
1899.      In  ]iolitics  be  is  a  C'onservative. 


KKY  rilllM'S  OTTV,  a  well-known 
itizen  of  St.  John,  was  born  in  that 
city  on  January  31,  1824,  his  par- 
ents being  Captain  Allan  and  I';iizabeth 
(Crookshank)  Ott) .  His  lather,  Cajitain 
Allan  ()tty,  was  born  in  the  old  Danish  town 
of  \\'hitl)y,  \'orksbire,  I'jiglanil,  on  November 
18,  1784;  and  he  entered  the  Hritish  navy 
August  15,  1803,  on  hoard  the  guard-ship 
"Haldar."  I'mm  1806  until  his  iironiotion 
to  the  rank  of  lieutenant  on  .\|)ril  4,  1810,  he 
served  chiefly  in  the  capacity  of  master's  mate, 
a  rating  be  a'Ltaine<l  to  on  May  9,  1805.  After 
passing  through  various  ranks,  he  was  conuiiis- 
sioned  commander  on  the  first  day  of  July, 
1815.  Captain  ( )tty's  marriage  took  jilace  on 
August  8,  1818.  He  died  at  Darling  island, 
Kings  County,  on  March  15,  1859,  at  the  age 
of  seventy-four  years;  and  his  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  was  l'".li/abeth  Crookshank,  died 
in  the  same  i)lace  on  August  8,  1852,  at  fifty- 
one  years  of  age.  They  were  the  parents  of 
the  following-named  children:  Andrew  C, 
(ieorge,  Catherine  M.,  Henry  I'hipps,  Thomas 
J.,   Allan    C,    Robert,    IClizabeth,    John,    and 


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BIOGRAPHICAL   REVIFAV 


.87 


William.  Aiuliow  C.  Otty  was  a  iJiigadc 
Major  ill  the  militia,  and  took  an  active  ])art  in 
.suppressing  tlic  Fenian  disturbances,  lie  died 
at  the  ago  of  fifty-six  years.  George  was  a 
barrister  and  later  Judge  of  Probate  for  Kings 
■  County,  New  J^runswick.  Catherine  Magiil 
married  Dr.  S.  Z.  Karle,  of  St.  John. 
Thomas  J.  was  drowned  while  a  young  man, 
when  the  "Avenger"  was  wrecked  in  the 
Mediterranean  Sea.  Allan  C,  Robert,  and 
Kli^abeth  are  deceased. 

Henry    Phipps    Otty   was   educated    at     the 
grammar  .school    in    .St.   John.      After  leaving 
.school  he  engaged  in  the  lumber  business,  and 
in   1872  built  a  saw-mill  at    Uanijiton,  Kings 
County,  which   he  conducted  for  several  years, 
fn    1863   he  entered   Her  .Afajesty's  service  in 
the  i)ost-office  department,  where  be   remained 
until  bis  retirement   in   l-'ebruary,    1895.      JIc 
was   married    on    New  Year's   Day,    1851,    to 
Hetty    Howe,    who   was   born    in    Halifax    on 
November  25,   1827.      Her  father,  John  Howe, 
was  Postmaster-Cleneral  of  the  Maritime  Prov- 
inces.     .Mrs.    Otty    died    on    June    3,     i8y^. 
Her    daughter,    J-llizabeth    Crookshank    Otty, 
married  Judge   Alfred   W.    .Savary,    Af.A.,    of 
Digby,  N.  S.,  and   became  the  mother  of  four 
children.      Mr.  Otty  is  a  member  of  the  Church 
of  lui'^land. 


|1)\VAK1)  J.  Ki:\\I':i)V,  a  represema- 
tive  of  one  of  the  oldest  i)usine.ss 
firms  in  St.  John,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass., 
June  3,  1834,  a  son  of  William  and  Mary  A. 
(Swords)  Kennedy. 


William  Kennedy,  who  was  of  Scotch  ances- 
try, was  born  in  Ireland  in  1S12.     When  four- 
teen years  of  age  he  left  his  native  land  and, 
unattended,   went  to  f^oston,   Mass.,  where  he 
found    employment    with    Sumner    Hudson    & 
Co.,  provision  dealers,  with  whom  he  remained 
for   si.xteen    years.      In    1847   he   came  to   S-:. 
John   and    established    a    grocery   business    on 
King  Street,  which  he  conducted  successful iy 
until  his  death,  a  jjeriod  of  over  half  a  century. 
He  took  a  great  interest  in  the  I.  O.  ( ).  F.,  of 
which   he  was  a  member  for  over  si.xty  years, 
having  been  one  of  the  organizers  and  a  charter 
member  of  the  lodge.      He  was  married  in  1832 
to  Miss  Mary  A.  Swords,  a  native  of  Boston 
and  daughter  of  lulward  and    Isabella  Swords, 
she  being  on  the  paternal  side  of  Irish  ancestry. 
Four  children  were  born  of  this  union,  namely: 
Kdward  J,,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  ;  Susan, 
now   deceased,    who  was  the  wife  of    the   late 
Stephen   Case;  William   L.,    who  died  at   the 
age  of  twenty-two  years;  and  Freeland,  a  physi- 
cian, who,    after  practising   his  profession   for 
two  years  in  St.  John,  died  at  the  age  of  thirty, 
leaving  a  wife,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  James 
Hennett,  of  St.  John,  and  one  child.      One  of 
the   leading  merchants   of   the    city,    William 
Kennedy  was    widely   known    and    respected; 
and   his  death,    which   occurred   in    1896,    was 
much  regretted.      His  wife  died    in    188S,    at 
the  age  of  seventy-three  years. 

Kdward  J.  Kennedy  came  to  St.  John  when 
a  lad  of  twelve  yeans.  He  was  educated  in  the 
•school  on  Cobury  Street,  under  Mr.  William 
Mills.  After  leaving  school  he  entered  his 
father's    store,   ami    upon   his    father's    iJeath 


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BIOGRAPHICAL   REVIEW 


succeeded  to  the  business.  In  1899,  after  the 
business  had  been  conducted  on  King  Street  for 
fifty-two  years,  Mr.  Kennedy  removed  to  his 
])resent  large  store  on  Waterloo  Street,  where 
he  now  does  tiie  leading  business  in  his  line  in 
St.  John. 

11^  was  married  in  1S68  to  Miss  Margaret 
Austin,  a  daughter  of  Henry  and  Su.san 
(Wright)  Austin,  of  St.  John.  His  family 
consists  of  three  children:  ICdwnrd  '1'. ,  who  is 
associated  with  Lini  in  the  business;  Susan  A., 
who  lives  with  her  parents;  and  William  I-.,  a 
painter,  residing  in  St.  John. 


IIARLKS  K.  KNAPr,  a  prominent 
lawyer  of  Dorchester,  N.  H. ,  is  well 
known  throughout  Westmorland 
County,  in  connection  with  the  business  of  its 
courts,  as  a  man  of  jironounced  legal  ability. 
He  was  born  at  Fort  Cumberland,  in  this 
county,  March  15,  i<S26,  a  son  of  William  I). 
Knajjp.  The  Knapp  family  were  originally 
(iermans,  and  spelled  their  name  Cenoc|) 
until  the  reign  of  Henry  \'I1I.,  when  it 
was  legally  changed  to  its  present  form.  The 
founder  of  the  family  in  America  emigrated 
from  Suffolk,  England,  in  1632,  and  estab- 
lished himself  as  a  householder  at  Rye,  N.  Y. , 
where  his  descendants  lised  until  the  close  of 
the  war  of  independence,  'limothy  Knapj), 
the  great-grandfather  of  Charles  1'^  Knajip, 
married  Mary  Adee,  of  Rye,  N.Y. ,  the  town 
in  which  their  onl)'  child,  Titus  Knapp,  was 
born. 

Titus    Knapp    spent    his    early    life    in    the 


Province  of  New  York,  and  as  a  Lieutenant  in 
Delance)'s  Rangers  was  in  the  liritish  ser- 
vice duiing  the  Revolution,  and  took  an  active 
part  in  many  of  its  engagements.  He  was 
thrice  wounded,  once  in  the  neck,  once  in  the 
side,  and  also  on  the  head  by  a  sabre  cut,  and 
for  three  months  was  held  pri.soner  at  White 
Plains,  N.Y.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  came 
with  the  colony  of  Loyalists  to  the  Provinces, 
and  located  at  l-'ort  Cumberland,  N..S.,  where 
he  was  prosperously  engaged  in  mercantile  and 
agricidtural  pursuits  until  his  death,  at  the  age 
of  threescore  and  ten  years.  He  became  very 
actively  identified  with  public  affairs,  and  soon 
after  taking  up  his  residence  in  Westmorland 
County  was  a  member  of  the  Pn  .incial  Parlia- 
ment;  and  he  also  served  as  Justice  of  the 
Peace  for  a  long  time.  He  married  Catherine, 
daughter  of  Major  Dickson,  who  was  in  the 
British  service  as  an  officer  in  a  New  luigland 
regiment  during  the  American  Revolution. 
He  had  |)reviously  .served  in  the  l-'icnch  War, 
having  been  a  participant  in  all  im])()rtant  en- 
gagements with  the  e.\cei)tion  of  the  taking  of 
I.ouisburg,  and,  before  removing  to  Nova  .Scotia, 
with  other  Loyalists  assisted  in  the  ca])turc  of 
Morro  Castle,  in  Havana. 

William  D.  Knapp,  the  only  chili'  of  Titus 
and  Catherine  Knap]),  was  horn  at  the  old 
homestead,  at  l'"ort  Cumberland,  and  there 
lived  and  died.  He  was  highly  educated,  and, 
having  inherited  a  good  projierty,  spent  his 
seventy-five  years  of  life  as  a  gentleman  farmer. 
Delicate  frou)  his  youth  u|),  for  the  last  forty 
years  he  was  an  inxalid.  His  wife,  Margaret 
(Juigley,  was  born  in  Digby,  \..S. ,  a  daughter 


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of  VVinkworth  Ouif,dcv.  She  died  at  the  age 
of  seventy-one  years.  ]Ie  was  a  Quaker,  while 
she  was  a  member  of  the  Church  of  Juigland. 
Tliey  reared  thirteen  children,  of  whom  six 
are  livin;,^  namely:  Charles  K.  ;  ICliza,  widow 
of  William  Woodman,  late  of  Itastport,  Me.; 
Kmeline,  wife  of  the  Rev.  Herbert  Jarvi.s,  of 
Virginia;  Charlotte,  wife  of  William  Porter, 
of  Portland,  Me.  ;  Mary,  now  living  in  Bos- 
ton; and  Augusta,  a  resident  of  Fort  Cumber- 
land, N.]^. 

Charles  K.  Knapp  attended  first  the  common 
schools  of  P'ort  Cumberland,  and  was  afterward 
a  .student  at  King's  College,  in  Windsor, 
N.S.  In  1846  he  began  the  study  of  law  with 
the  late  E.  B.  Chandler,  subsequently  gov- 
ernor of  the  Province,  in  Dorchester,  N.B.,  and 
for  several  years  after  being  admitted  attorney 
remained  in  his  office.  In  1857  he  com- 
menced practising  his  profession  throughout 
Westmorland  County,  and  is  still  actively 
employed.  In  addition  to  other  legal  work, 
he  is  Clerk  of  the  Peace,  Keeper  of  the  Rolls, 
and  Registrar  of  Prolate  for  the  county.  Ik- 
is  a  Ma-son  of  high  standing,  belonging  to 
Sussex  Lodge,  No.  4,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  which 
he  is  Past  Master. 

On  August  30,  1848,  Mr.  Knapp  married 
Sarah  Ann,  daughter  of  Thomas  Trenholm,  of 
Pointe  du  Bute,  N.B.  She  died  in  1895,  in 
the  si.xty-eighth  year  of  her  age,  leaving  six 
children,  namely:  Cassie,  wife  of  Henry  D. 
Harper,  of  Brooklyn,  N.Y.,  who  has  one  child, 
Donald;  F:ilen,  widow  of  the  late  Alexander 
Nichols,  of  San  Antonio,  Tex.,  who  has  two 
children  — Ada  and   Clara;    Tammic,  wife  of 


the  Rev.  R.  Barry  Smitl ,  of  Buctouche, 
X.B.,  who  has  six  children -- Charles,  Robert, 
Catherine,  Nellie,  Sarah,  anl  Dorothy;  Julia, 
unmarried;  Ada,  wife  of  Irving  Gollner,  of 
Staten  Island,  N.Y.,  who  has  five  children; 
Leo;  and  Lizzie,  wife  of  Theodore  Chamber- 
lain, of  New  York  City,  who  has  four  children. 
Mrs.  Knapp  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
church,  to  which  Mr.  Knap])  also  belongs. 
The  family  arms,  together  with  a  full  dcscri])- 
tion,  may  be  found  in  the  Herald's  College, 
London.  These  arms  were  granted  to  Roger 
De  Knapi),  by  Henry  VIII.,  to  commemo- 
rate  his  skill  and  success  at  a  tournament  held 
in  Norfolk,  pJigland,  in  1540,  in  which  he  is 
said  to  have  un.seated  three  knights  of  great 
skill  and  bravery. 


J  ^^)aBRIEL  MKRRITT,  a  retired  ship- 
V£l  builder  of  St.  John,  was  born  in 
:\Iarlboro,  Ulster  County,  N.Y.,  November  9, 
1824,  son  of  Gabriel,  first,  and  Rebecca  (Wet 
more)  Merritt.  His  grandparents  were  Josiah 
and  Ann  (Purdy)  Merritt.  Their  eldest  son, 
Gabriel,  first,  father  of  the  subiect  of  this 
.sketch,  was  the  .second  of  their  seven  children. 
He  was  born  in  Marlboro,  December  2,  1777, 
and  on  February  12,  1806,  he  married  Rebecca 
Wetmore.  She  was  born  I'ebruary  19,  1788, 
daughter  of  Izrahiah  Wetmore,  of  Rye,  Wes- 
chestcr  County,  N.Y.  He  was  a  son  of  James 
Wetmore. 

Gabriel  Merritt,  the  fourth  son  of  Gabriel, 
first,  and  Rebecca  Merritt,  was  the  tenth-born 
of  eleven  children,  and  was  reared  upon  a  farm 


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ill  liis  native  State.  Having  leanieci  the  car- 
])entcr's  trade,  he  came  tt)  New  Urunswiik  at 
tiie  age  of  twenty-two,  and,  settling  in  Clifton, 
Kings  County,  was  for  some  time  engaged  in 
carpentering,  ship-building,  and  the  manufact- 
ure of  lumber.  (^ne  of  his  first  building 
operations  was  the  remodelling  of  the  Episco- 
pal church  in  Kingston.  He  later  became  a 
member  of  the  ship-building  firm  of  VVetmore, 
Titus  &  ]\Ierritt,  which  carried  on  business  for 
many  years,  and  that  this  concern  was  promi- 
nently identified  with  the  merchant-marine 
interests  of  this  locality  is  attested  by  the 
following  list  of  vessels  launclied  from  its 
yards:  ships,  "IMuskoto, "  "I'eaceniaker  "  ; 
barks,  "Kingston,"  "Arbutus,"  "Carrier 
Dove,"  "Connaught,"  "Director,"  "J'jichant- 
ress, "  "Inglesidc, "  "John  I'-ills, "  "Moss 
(ilen  "  (first),  "Moss  (ilen  "  (second),  "I'e- 
kin,"  "Shiela,"  "Seaward,"  "X'olant  '  ; 
barkentines,  "Antilhi,"  "Julia  l-'ishcr, " 
"Merritt";  brigs,  "Annie  barker,"  "Min- 
nie"; l)rigantines,  "Artos,"  "]5uda," 
"Echo,"  "Jumbo,"  "Natmoo, "  "Signal," 
"Sunshine";  schooners,  "Angelia,"  "Clif- 
ton," "Deer  Hill,"  "I'lltic,"  "Cilen," 
"Hazelwoode, "  "Inglewoode, "  "Julia  A. 
Merritt,"  "I.aurissa,"  "Mower,"  "R.  A. 
l""ord,"  "Reaper  "  "Thrasher"  ;  and  the  jiilot 
boat  "Minnie  Cline.  '  In  1.S73  Mr.  Merritt 
moved  to  St.  John,  and  the  first  residence 
which  he  occupied  was  burned  in  the  conflagra- 
tion of  1877.  He  continued  to  carry  on  busi- 
ness in  Kings  County  for  several  years  after 
his  removal,  or  until  iiS93,  when  he  sold  bis 
luill  property  to  the  Moss  Glen   Manufacturing 


Company.  He  is  the  owner  of  a  large  farm  in 
Moss  (jlen,  and  in  1.S67  he  brought  from  New 
Yin-k  .State  the  first  cultivated  strawberry, 
raspberry,  and  rhubarb  ])lants  ever  trans])lanted 
in  this  province. 

On  February  29,  1848,  I\[r. ■  Merritt  con- 
tracted the  first  of  his  two  marriages  with 
Mary  I'^lizabeth  ]''lewelling,  of  Clifton,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  l""lewelling  and  a  sister  of  the 
late  Hon.  William  P.  l-'lewelling.  She  died 
.August  S,  1.S7S,  aiKl  he  subsequently  married 
Mrs.  K]\/.i\  Jane  I'uddington,  daughter  of 
David  W'etmore,  of  Clifton,  and  widow  of 
J.  K.  I'uddington.  He  is  the  father  of  si.\ 
children,  all  by  his  first  wife,  namely:  Joseph 
]''lewelling,  born  in  Marlboro,  N.Y.,  February 
<S,  1S49;  William  Hawkesley,  born  in  Clifton, 
Kings  County,  N.H.,  Octooer  28,  1850;  Julia 
.\.,  born  in  Ulster  County,  N.  V.,  March  29, 
1852;  I'.chvard  Ilcnr)-,  born  in  Clifton,  April 
22,  1854;  Gabriel  Wetniore,  born  in  Clifton, 
January  14,  1857;  and  I'rank  Stanley,  born  in 
Clifton,  January  i  ",    1864. 

J(.sej)h  I'"lewelling  Merritt  after  conii>leting 
his  education  engaged  in  business  with  his 
father,  and  when  a  young  man  he  made  several 
voyages  in  oriler  to  familiarize  himself  with 
the  working  of  a  ship  antl  the  freight  carrying 
business.  In  1872  he  took  a  position  in  the 
store  of  Turnlnill  &  Co.,  willi  wliom  he  became 
associated  as  a  partner  in  1878,  the  firm  name 
being  subseipienlly  changed  to  its  present 
style  of  Merritt  brothers  &  Co.  They  carry  on 
an  extensive  wholesale  grocery  and  shipping 
business,  their  sales  amounting  to  two-thirds 
of    a    million     dollars     annuall)-.      Jose[ih    F. 


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iMcrritt  is  largely  interested  in  shipjiing.  He 
is  president  of  the  Moss  Glen  Manufacturing 
Company  and  a  iieavy  stockholdci-  in  gold, 
silver,  and  copper  mines.  lie  was  married  on 
.\ugust  25,  1897,  to  Georgia  J.  M.  Oakes, 
daughter  of -the  late  lion.  ICdwin  Randoli)h 
Oakc-i,  of  Dighy,  N.  .S.  They  have  one  daugh- 
ter,   Mary  (ieorgia,  born  November  19,   1  S98. 

William  Hawkesley  Merritt  entered  a  coun- 
try store  as  a  clerk  at  the  age  of  thirteen  years, 
and  about  eighteen  months  later  he  went  to 
work  in  his  father's  shipyard,  remaining  one 
year.  Coming  to  .St.  John  when  he  was  six- 
teen yeans  old,  he  took  a  clerkship  in  the  store 
of  the  late  R.  E.  I'uddington,  later  entering 
into  partnershij)  with  R.  K.  and  J.  ]•:.  I'udding- 
ton, retail  grocers  at  No.  55  Charlotte  Street. 
After  the  death  of  R.  !•:.  I'uddington  the  two 
surviving  partners  continued  their  association 
for  a  year,  or  until  the  death  of  Mr.  J.  li. 
I'uddington,  since  which  time  the  busines.s  has 
been  conducted  by  Mr.  Merritt  under  the  firm 
name  of  I'uddington  &  Merritt.  He  is  also 
interested  in  shipjiing  and  the  manufacture  of 
lumber.  On  June  8,  1880,  he  married  Lau- 
rissa  Alma  Hughes,  daughtci  of  the  Rev.  John 
Hughes,  of  St.  John.  They  have  three  chil- 
dren—Charles Kiting,  Julia  Hazelwoode,  and 
Adah  Laurissa.  William  II.  Merritt  was  for- 
merly a  warden  of  St.  John's  Church. 

Julia  A.  Merritt  married  Thomas  Arm- 
strong, of  St.  John,  N.B. ,  now  residing  in 
Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Edward  Henry  Merritt,  who  died  November 
27,  1895,  was  manager  of  the  Moss  Glen  Man- 
ufacturing   Company  and  a  business    man    of 


ability  and  integrity.  T'or  his  first  wife  he 
married  t  harlotte  A.  Kierstead.  She  was 
born  August  30,  1854,  and  died  .Vugust  1 8, 
1889,  leaving  nine  children,  namely:  Julia 
Hell,  born  Marrli  6,  1875;  Ira  tauten,  born 
.\pril  4,  1877;  ('iiarlcs  Holdcn,  born  Septem- 
ber 26,  1878;  Oriin  l.ee,  born  January  3, 
1880:  Harold  Wi)(i(lbur\-,  born  June  29,  1882; 
Cecil  Ray,  i)orn  October  5,  1883;  Henry  Clif- 
ford, born  March  2,  1886;  Gabriel  l':iden, 
iiorn  b'elnuary  d,  1888;  and  Lew  I'illis,  born 
July  27,  1889.  His  second  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  was  b;iizabetii  Almira  I-'lewel- 
ling,  is  the  mother  of  (juc  son,  Leslie  Stratton 
.Merritt. 

Gabriel  Wetmore  Merritt,  who  entered  the 
employ  of  Turnhull  &  Co.  at  sixteen,  and  in 
1884  became  a  jiartner  in  the  firm,  is  now 
as.sociated  with  his  brother,  Josejih  1".  Merritt, 
in  the  firm  of  Merritt  Hrothers  &  Co.  He  is 
also  interested  in  .shipping  and  mining.  He 
is  i)residcnt  of  the  Union  Club  and  of  the 
^'oung  Men's  Liberal  Club.  He  attends  St. 
John's  (Anglican)  Church.  On  September 
12,  1888,  he  marrietl  Annie  M.  Worralt, 
daughter  of  II.  b'.  \\()rrall,  of  Halifax.  N.  S. 
They  have  one  son  — (Jabriel  Guy,  who  was 
burn  Uecember  2,   1890. 

Erank  Stanley  .Merritt  came  with  his  parents 
to  St.  John  when  nine  years  old,  and  after 
leaving  school  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  retail 
grocery  store  of  I'uddington  &  Merritt,  where 
he  is  still  employed.  On  June  8,  1892,  he 
married  Jennie  Louise  Butcher,  who  was 
born  in  this  city,  daughter  of  Frederick  Ran- 
kin   Ikitcher,     a    native    of     I'rince     Edward 


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Island.  Tlicv  liavc  OIK'  son-  I'"i(.'(lc'rirl<  (ut- 
ald,  lioiii  i\|iiil  ,?,  i.S(j7.  I'lnnk  Stank-y  Mor- 
ritt  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 

The  Mciiilt  Urothers  arc  able  business  men, 
and  ()ceu|)y  a  pmniinent  jjlace  among  the 
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l.FRKl)  K;  IIOL.SIKAD,  a  well-known 
;ist  of  Moneton,  N.H.,  is  a  wide- 
awake, progressive  business  man 
and  a  citizen  of  influence.  .Son  of  the  late 
Charles  A.  Holstead,  he  was  born  in  Monc- 
ton  on  .\ugust  6,  1866.  The  family  is  of 
J'jiglish  origin.  Mr.  Ilolstead's  grandfather, 
Charles  Holstead,  spent  his  early  life  in  Eng- 
land, the  country  of  his  birth,  but  on  reaching 
man's  estate  followed  the  tide  of  emigration 
westward.  On  reaching  New  Hrunswick,  he 
lotated  at  first  in  .St.  John,  but  later  removed 
to  Moncton,  whicii  he  made  his  ])crmancnt 
home. 

Charles  ,\.  Holstead  was  born  in  Moncton, 
N.  H. ,  where  he  ohtainetl  his  elementary  educa- 
tion, lie  afterward  continued  his  studies  at 
Mount  Allison  College,  in  .Sackville,  N.l^., 
and  was  subsec|uently  fitted  for  the  bar  in  the 
law  office  of  A.  A.  .Stockton  in  St.  John. 
Heginning  the  practice  of  his  jirofession  in 
Moncton,  he  secured  a  large  clientage,  and  at 
the  time  of  his  death,  at  the  age  of  forty-three 
years,  was  among  the  leatling  lawyers  of  the 
community.  He  was  a  Liberal  in  politics  and 
a  very  prominent  member  o'  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternity. He  married  Maggie  ]"'erguson,  and 
was  the  father  of  eight  children,  si.\  of  whom 


survive;  namely,  Alfre<l  Iv,  I'.lla,  I'^dith, 
I'Vank,  Maggie,  and  Hessie.  The  mother  still 
resides  in  Moncton. 

Alfred  K.  Holstead  completed  his  early 
education  in  Mount  Allison  Academy  at  Sack- 
ville,  and  immediately  after  leaving  school 
began  his  mercantile  career  as  a  clerk,  being 
thus  employed  .several  seasons  in  Moncton,  and 
subsec|uently  for  three  years  in  Chatham,  N.  H. 
In  18S7,  desiring  to  start  in  business  on  his 
own  account,  he  returned  to  Moncton,  where 
he  has  hosts  of  friends  and  well-wishers,  and 
ojiened  his  present  drug  store,  which  he -has 
conducted  with  eminent  success,  his  tiade 
being  extensive  and  remunerative. 

On  November  23,  1894,  Mr.  Holstead  mar- 
ried Miss  Grace  Thomjjson,  daughter  of  Charles 
D.  Thompson,  also  of  Moncton.  I'cilitically, 
Mr.  Holstead  is  an  adherent  of  the  Conserva- 
tive I'arty,  and  fraternally  he  is  a  member  of 
I'rince  Albert  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  1'".,  and  of 
Moncton  Court,   I.  O.  I-'.,  both  of  Moncton. 


01I\  m.ACKHAI.I.  SMITH,  lor  many 
years  proprietor  of  the  ICagle  I'oundry, 
.St.  John,  was  born  in  Norham,  Mount 
Pleasant  Parish,  county  f>f  Durham,  luigland, 
September  27,  1807.  He  learned  the  machin- 
ist's trade,  and  subsequently  engaged  in  busi- 
ness in  luigland  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Smith  &  .Smart.  Emigrating  to  Canada  in 
1833,  he  was  appointed  superintendent  of  the 
mechanical  department  of  a  large  brewery  and 
distillery  in  Montreal,  and  while  in  that  posi- 
tion he  supervised  the  construction  of  the  first 


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iniM   |il;iMcr  ever  maiuifaLtuivd  in  C'.iiKuki.      In 
1837  lie  scrvi'd  MS  an  officer    in  Colonel    Mai- 
son's  rct;iment,  whieli    took    i)ait    in    i|uelling 
what   is    known    as    the     Tapineau    Kel)elli<in. 
After  the  close  of  the  outiirealc  he  came  to  St. 
John  for  the  i)ur|)()se  of  fitting  up  and  riinninf; 
for  James  Whitney  the  steamboat  "Novelty  " 
on  the   river  from   Indiantown    to  Woodstock, 
N.  R      Later    he    built    the    boilers    for    the 
steamer  "North    America,"    first    makin;,^  the 
tools   for    its   consti notion,    which  he   superin- 
tended; and  for   some   time   he  acted  as   chief 
engineer  when  that  boat  was  running  between 
St.  John  and    Uoston.      In    1841    he    left    the 
employ   of    Mr.    Whitney   for   the   purjiose    of 
engaging  in   business   for   himself,   rm\  estab- 
lisiied  the  Hagle  Foundry,  which  he  carried  on 
successfully   for   the    rest    of    his  active    life, 
ilis  was  the  only  iron-working  establishment 
here   for   many  years,   and   he  was  extensively 
engaged  in  building  engines,  boilers,  and  ma- 
chinery of  every  description.      IJuring  a  single 
year  he  furnished  the  iron  work  for  ninety-one 
shijjs,  besides  that  of  numerous  smaller  ves.sels 
and    the   usual    amount   of    machinery   lor    the 
lumber  manufacturers. 

Mr.  Smith  was  married  in  ICngland  in  1830 
to  Miss  Isabella  Douglas,  daughter  of  (Jeorge 
Douglas,  of  Tweedmouth,  and  their  wedded 
life  e.Ntended  through  a  ])eriod  of  si.xty-three 
years.  He  was  the  father  of  ten  children, 
namely:  bHizabeth,  who  became  the  wife  of 
John  P.  I5ell,  of  this  city;  William,  who  died 
in  infancy;  Mary  Ann,  who  is  the  widow  of 
David  IMcAndrews;  Margaret  Douglas,  who 
married   S.    N.    Knowles,  of   St.  John;  George 


Douglas,  whose  wife,  .\nnie  (Isborn,  died  in 
1883;  Isabella  Douglas,  who  is  the  widow  of 
John  Campbell  b' ranees;  Jane,  wife  of  James 
Malcolm;  Phyllis  Heverige,  wife  of  Andrew 
Malcolm;  lilcanor  Grace,  wife  of  W.  J.  Pratt, 
of  Albany,  N.Y.  ;  and  John  A.  \.  Of  these 
one  was  born  in  bjigland,  three  in  Montreal, 
and  the  others  in  St.  John.  John  H.  Smith 
died  April  5,  1895,  having  s.urvived  his  wife, 
who  died  May  24,  1893.  He  belonged  t(j  the 
Ma.sonic  fraternity,  and  was  a  member  of  St. 
David's  Church. 

The  business  which  he  founded  is  still  in  a 
prosperous  condition,  and  is  conducted  under 
the  firm  name  of  John  Smith's  Sons. 


IIARI.HS     AHNKR     MACDONALD, 

barrister,  of  St.  John,  is  a  native  of 
the  city,  and  was  born  October  20, 
1849,  his  i)arents  being  Charles  C.  and  b'.liza- 
beth  (Dyer)  Macdonald,  both  natives  of  St. 
John. 

Charles  C.  Macdonald,  who  was  for  many 
years  engaged  in  the  hardware  business  on 
King  Street,  was  of  Scotch  descent,  lie  died 
in  1859;  and  his  wife,  l':iizabeth,  surviving 
him  many  years,  died  in  1890.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  one  Jonah  Dyer,  who  came  to  New 
Hrunswick  from  the  I'nited  States.  Her 
mothi'r,  whose  maiden  name  was  l';iizabeth 
Harding,  was  a  daughter  of  George  Harding 
and  grand-daughter  of  William  Harding.  The 
latter,  who  was  born  in  Graveston,  ICngland,  in 
'745.  emigrated  to  New  York,  where  he  mar- 
ried Sarah  Gilli.s,  who  was  born  in  1747.      He 


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llardinj;,  above  named,  was  horn  in  Ne\vl)nrjj, 
N.Y.,  on  June  16,  1779,  and  eanic  tc»  tiiis 
eountry  in  W^i  witii  his  parents.  Two  of  the 
eliiiilreii  ot  Charles  C.  Maedonahi  .ire  ii\in},', 
namely:  Klla  Hamlin,  who  is  the  wite  of 
John  M.  Kinnear,  of  Sussex,  Kings  County, 
N.  H.  ;  and  Charles  Ahner,  the  special  subject 
of  this  sketch. 

Charles  Abner  Maedonald  was  reared  in  .Si. 
John,  and  reciived  his  early  education  in  the 
grannnar  school.  lie  ;;raduated  from  the  I'ni- 
versity  of  Tn'ow  Ihunswick  in  1.S6S,  takinj;  the 
alumni  medal  for  excellence  in  classics.  y\fter 
studyinj^  law  with  the  late  James  Joseph  Kaye, 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  i-S;^^,  and  as  a 
barrister  has  sucessfully  followed  his  profes- 
.sion  in  St.  John.  In  connection  with  his 
legal  work  he  represents  the  iMpiitable  Life 
and  London  (iuarantee  and  Accident  Insurance 
Conii)any.  y\nionj;  insurance  men  bis  opinions 
and  judgments  on  insurance  matters  are  bighl)' 
valued. 

Mr.  Maedonald  was  married  in  1S.S3  to 
Helen  A.,  daughter  of  the  late  R.  C.  Scovil. 
Three  children  have  been  born  of  this  union; 
namely,  Guenn  Hilda,  Cordon  Scovil,  and 
Stanlev  Kenneth. 


AMKS  STIAVART  NEILL,  a  jiromi- 
nent  hardware  merchant  of  Fredericton, 
N.Ii.,  is  one  of  the  most  energetic, 
capable,  and  jirogressive  business  men  of  the 
city.  A  son  of  the  late  John  Neill,  be  was 
born    in    Fredericton,    October    14,    1849,    and 


has  here  spent  bis  entire  life.  His  paternal 
grandfather,  John  Neill,  .Sr. ,  was  born  in 
Scotland;  and  there  be  li\ed  and  died.  He 
married  Mary  Stewart,  whose  brother  John 
founded  the  firm  of  John  .Stewart  &  Co.,  iron- 
mongers, (ilasgow,  and  as  an  e.xtensive  ex- 
porter and  im|)ortcr  was  known  all  o\er  the 
world, 

John  Neill,  Jr.,  lived  in  his  native  place, 
Ayrshire,  Scotland,  until  he  was  eighteen 
\ears  (dd.  Coming  then  to  l'"rederictnn,  he 
was  a  clerk  with  bis  uncle,  Tlioinas  .Stewait, 
four  or  nuire  years;  and  he  afterward  taught 
school  in  the  vicinity  for  a  year.  Ho  was 
subseipiently  in  partnership  with  his  iniele  as 
junior  mend)ei  of  the  firm  of  Stewart  &  Neill 
for  five  years.  In  r.S4,S  be  openi  ,c  store 
now  owned  by  his  son  James,  and  was  hero 
successfully  engaged  until  1870,  when  he  re- 
tired to  his  fine  farm  in  (iibson,  where  he 
remained  until  bis  death,  at  the  age  of  sevetity- 
three  )ears.  He  was  an  adherent  of  the  I'res- 
byterian  church,  of  which  he  w^as  a  trustee 
several  years.  His  wife,  Jane  Macl'herson, 
was  horn  at  Ta)'  Creek,  N.ii. ,  of  tbiift\- 
Scotch  ancestors.  She  survives,  an  active 
woman  of  se\enty-one  years.  She  bore  her 
husband  thirteen  children,  of  whom  two  sons 
and  the  daughters  are  still  living,  and  reside 
in  I'"redericton  and  vicinity. 

James  .S.  Neill  was  educated  in  the  I'reder- 
icton  Collegiate  School,  under  Drs.  Roberts 
and  C'oster,  and  at  the  age  of  fcnirteen  years 
entered  his  father's  strirc  as  a  clerk,  a  position 
which  be  retained  until  1S70,  when  he  pur- 
chased the  business.      The  store  originally  was 


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small,  having  been  but  twenty  feet  by  fifty 
feet;  but  Mr.  Neill  has  acklcil  to  the  improve- 
ments previously  matlc  by  his  late  father,  am! 
it  is  now  one  of  the  most  commodious  and  con- 
venient establishments  of  the  kind  in  tiie  city. 
The  business  has  steadily  increascil  in  volume 
and  value,  aniounting  to  one  hundred  thousand 
dollars  a  year.  When  the  present  system  of 
water-works  wis  introduced  into  l''redericton, 
Mr.  \eill,  although  older  and  more  ex|)eri- 
enced  men  were  among  his  numerous  competi- 
tors, secured  the  contract  for  supplying  the 
city  with  water  pipes,  over  seven  hundred  tons 
being,  used.  He  is  a  direct  importer  from 
Great  Hrilain,  lierniany,  l""rance,  Austria,  and 
the  United  States.  lie  has  a  large  whole- 
sale and  retail  tratle,  and  sells  his  goods  every- 
where within  the  iiorders  of  the  province  and 
the  borders  of  Ouebec.  T'or  three  years  he 
was  a  director  of  the  C.  K.  Railway,  and  was 
largely  instrumental  in  having  the  road  ex- 
tended from  here  to  Chatham,  having  been 
sent  as  one  of  the  delegates  to  Ottawa  to  ]'lace 
the  claims  for  this  load  before  the  govern- 
ment. 

Mr.  Neill  is  a  Conservative  in  politics.  He 
is  interested  in  local  affairs;  and  he  freq.iently 
takes  the  slump  for  his  party,  but  has  persist- 
ently refused  to  be  a  candidate.  l'"ralernall v, 
he  is  a  mend)er  of  the  Knights  of  I'ythias,  of 
the  Odd  l'"ellows  organization,  and  of  Orange 
Lodge.  He  belongs  to  the  I'lesbyterian 
churv  h,  of  which  he  has  been  a  trustee  a  num- 
ber of  years.  He  was  cne  of  the  foinuleis  of 
the  Hoaril  of  Trade  of  Fredericton,  and  was  for 
two  years  president.      He  is  very  proud  of  his 


native  city,  and  is  very  energetic  in  his  efforts 
to  bring  tourists  here  by  placing  the  superior 
advantages  of  Fretlericton  before  the  American 
))ublic.  I'"or  two  years  he  has  served  as  jiresi- 
dent  of  .St.  Andrew's  Society.  lie  is  a  most 
enthusiastic  sportsnian,  anil  as  a  memiier  of  the 
Renous  and  iJimgarvon  -Salmon-fishing  Club 
spends  two  or  three  weeks  annually  at  salmon 
fishing,  at  .vhicli  he  is  an  expert,  catching 
soni'-'imes  as  many  as  '.elve  in  a  day.  He 
likewise  belongs  to  the  Miscou  .Shooting  Club, 
which  leases  from  the  government  the  Isle  of 
Miscou,  where  every  fall  he  spends  two  weeks 
in  goose,  du<'k,  and  brant  shooting.  He  is 
also  jiresident  of  the  I-'redericton  Curling 
Club,  which  was  founded  by  his  father,  and  ot 
which  he  has  been  a  member  from  bovhootl. 

Mr.  Neill  tiist  mariie<l  in  ^.S;o  Jlli/.a  I). 
Harrett,  daughter  of  John  Barrett,  a  contractor, 
of  l'"redcricton.  She  dieil  in  iS/",  leaving 
two  children,  namely:  Agnes  .Stewart,  who 
has  graduated  from  the  Presbyterian  Ladies' 
College  at  Halifax,  N  S.  ;  and  Charles  !■:., 
assistant  man.iger  of  the  \ancouver  Hranch  of 
the  IVIerchants'  Hunk  .if  Halifax.  Mr.  Neill 
subseiiuently  married  Mary  'I'odd  Hill,  eldest 
daughter  of  Charles  K.  Hill,  of  Nashwaaksis. 
The  children  born  of  this  union  are:  Jean; 
Donald  Hill;  Jack;  J.unes  .Stewart,  Jr.;  and 
Ra1i>h  Douglas. 


H.I.I  AM    CiRAV     HARRISON,    for 
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son,  of  whom  mention  is  nnulo  on  another  paj^e 
of  this  volume.  INIr.  Harrison  was  reared  in 
I'ortland,  now  St.  John,  and  was  jducated  in 
the  ])rivate  schools.  After  completing  his 
studies  he  started  in  the  <;rocery  business  in 
partnersliip  with  a  Mr.  C  laig,  and  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  carried  it  on  in  Main  Street. 
Later  he  disjiosed  of  his  interest  in  the  con- 
cern to  become  an  auctioneer,  but  eventually 
went    into  the  grocer)'  business  again. 

He  was  married  in  1865  to  Miss  Agnes  Mc- 
Ghee,  a  native  of  .Sussex  and  a  daughter  of 
the  Rev.  Thomas  McCJhee,  who  ime  to  this 
country  from  luigland  as  a  missionary  of  the 
Anglican  Church.  (M  liiis  marriage  ten  chil- 
dren were  born,  and  four  are  living  at  the 
l)resent  time;  namely,  Herbert  Gray,  Ai^nes 
Mliza,  Leonard  Jarvis,  and  William  .Stanley. 
Tlie  father,  William  Cray  Harrison,  was  a 
prominent  member  of  St.  Luke's  Chinch.  His 
death  occurred  on  August  5,   1893. 

Herbert  (iray  Harrison,  the  eldest  of  tiie 
three  sons,  was  born  on  \o\  ember  7,  1868, 
and  was  educated  in  tiic  pui)lic  sciiools  of  .St. 
John.  Upon  leaving  school  he  went  into  the 
London  House  with  Daniel  &  Jioyd,  and 
worked  there  for  ajjout  si.\  years.  Subse- 
(|uently,  in  i8yo,  he  started  a  grocer)-  busi- 
ness, and  since  ihat  lime  has  most  successfully 
managed  it.  He  is  a  member  and  vestryman 
of  St.  Luke's  Church. 

Leonard  Jarvis  Harrison,  who  was  iiorn  on 
September  12,  1872,  was  educated  in  the  i)ub- 
lic  schools  of  .St.  John,  and  subse(|ucntly  be- 
came clerk  for  Myles  &  \'oung  in  the  hardware 
business.      After  a  time   he   joined    his    elder 


brother  in  the  grocery  business.  William 
Stanley  Harri.son,  who  was  born  on  September 
5,  1880,  is  now  in  attendance  at  a  business 
college. 


Z.  DICKSON,  commission  mer- 
chant and  dealer  in  ])ro\'isions,  a 
well-known  business  man  of  the  city 
of  St.  Joiin,  is  a  native  of  Kotbsay,  Kings 
County,  N.l?.,  and  was  born  in  1845.  His 
grandfather,  Joseph  Dickson,  came  to  this 
Province  in  1783,  with  the  Loyalists,  after 
having  served  for  some  time  in  King  George's 
army.  His  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was 
P'airweather,  was  the  mother  of  thirteen  chil- 
dren. Mr.  Dickson's  parents  were  James  and 
Frances  C.  (Upham)  Dickson.  His  father 
died  in  February,  iSt)4,  at  seventy-four  years 
of  age,  and  his  mother  on  November  3,  1898, 
at  seventy-five  years  of  age.  They  were  the 
[larents  of  three  children — ^  S.  Z.,  Harriet  S., 
and  Hedley  \'. ,  the  latter  of  whom  was  married 
to  Miss  l'"rost,  they  having  seven  children. 
James  Dickson  was  a  farmer. 

Mr.  Dickson  was  reared  as  a  farmer  boy, 
and  remained  with  his  parents  until  he  was 
si.xteen  years  of  age.  He  attended  the  public 
schools,  .some  of  his  teachers  being  William 
Thomason,  'I'iiomas  Lee,  anil  Kerr  Welmore. 
Upon  leaving  school  he  became  clerk  in  the 
London  House,  which  was  ojierated  by  Messrs. 
Daniel  &  Hoyd,  anil  there  conflnued  until  the 
death  of  Governor  Ho)il  in  1893.  During  that 
|ieriod  he  purchased  the  old  homestead  which 
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In  the  spriny  of  1894  Mr.  Dickson  bought 
(lilt  a  business  in  the  City  Market,  and  since 
that  time  ho  has  given  liis  attention  to  its 
development.  He  has  i)cen  most  successful, 
and  the  business  is  now  running  on  a  substan- 
tial paying  basis. 

Mr.  Dickson  was  married  in  1870  to  l\ilinor 
Tobin,  daughter  of  J.  .S.  liock.sworth,  of 
Digby,  N.S.  ;  and  .she  has  borne  him  four  chil- 
dren, three  of  whom  are  living.  Of  these 
George  Armstrong  is  in  Inisiness  with  his 
father;  Alice  M.  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  William 
II.  Simon,  of  .St.  John;  and  lulgar  J.  is  in  the 
employ  of  A.  C.  l-"airwcatlier. 


Crni'MAN  IIARTLICV,  senior  mem- 
ber of  tiie  firm  of  Hartley  &  Carvell, 
barristers,  at  Woodstock,  N.B.,  is  well 
known  in  legal  and  business  circles.  He  was 
born  in  Woodstock,  October  27,  1864,  .son  of 
James  R.  and  Lucy  (1.  (Harnaby)  Hartley. 
He  is  of  I'jiglisb  descent,  his  grandfather, 
James  Hartley,  having  been  born  and  reared  in 
the  vicinity  of  Newcastle,  I'^ng".  uid. 

After  reaching  man's  estate,  James  Hartley 
came  to  America,  and,  ]niiciiasing  a  tract  of 
land  lying  along  the  St.  John  River,  about 
forty  miles  above  I>'redericton,  N.  B. ,  he  there 
engaged  in  farming  until  his  death.  He  mar- 
ried Susan  Moore,  daughter  ol  John  Moore,  the 
paternal  grandfatlier  of  I*"ied  .Moore,  a  sketch  of 
whose  life  ajipcars  else\»l\ere  in  tliis  volume. 
.She  survived  her  husband,  and  dieil  in  1894,  at 
the  advanced  age  of  ninety-seven  years  and  si.\ 
months. 


James  R.  Hartley  was  horn  in  Shogomoc, 
York  County,  N.H.,  and  there  sjient  his  earli- 
est days.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  \  ears  he  came 
to  Woodstock,  and,  after  studying  for  a  while 
went  to  New  I'lngland,  where  he  learned  sur- 
veying and  civil  engineering  in  a  scientific 
school.  Returning  to  Woodstock,  he  estab- 
lished hiinseir  as  an  engineer,  and  subse- 
quently surveyed  nearly  ;dl  of  Carleton  and 
Victoria  Counties  for  the  |)  uposc  (if  laying 
down  government  lines.  He  also  engineered 
and  brought  in  the  railway  line  from  Rich- 
mond to  Woodstock,  and  afterward  siirveved 
the  route  tlnough  the  St.  Joim  X'aliey  of  llii. 
proposed  I.  C.  R.,  on  the  western  division  of 
which  he  was  working  at  the  time  of  his  deatli 
in  186S.  He  was  then  in  the  prime  of  a 
vigorous  manhood,  being  but  lhirt\-si.\  vi.'ars 
old.  He  was  a  member  of  the  I'rovincial  Par- 
liament, and  had  a  most  iiromising  career  before 
him.  He  was  a  man  of  influence  in  his  eom- 
muiiity.  He  belonged  lo  the  h'ree  Will  Bap- 
tist ciuncji,  and  was  a  meinl)cr  of  Woodstock 
Lodge,  1'".  &  .\.  M.  He  married  Luc\  (i., 
daughter  of  John  J?arnaby,  of  Digby  County, 
.Nova  Scotia,  and  was  the  father  of  two  chil- 
dren, of  wlioiii  J.  ("hii)man  is  tiie  onlv  one  now 
living.  John  Hainahy  died  in  1 S90,  at  the 
venerable  age  of  ninety  years;  and  his  wife, 
whose  maiilcn  name  was  Malvina  Chipman, 
died  in  Woodstock  in  1894. 

J.  Chipman  Hartle)-  attended  the  coiunion 
and  giamniar  schools  of  Woodstock  in  his 
youthful  days,  and  afterward  was  a  pupil  at  tjie 
Sackville  Academy.  He  subsetpiently  gradu- 
ated from  the  University  of  Mount  Allison  with 


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the  degree  of  liachelor  of  Arts.  He  llien 
began  to  leatl  law  with  L.  1'.  Fisher,  of  Wood- 
stock, and  was  achnitted  as  attorney  in  1888 
and  as  hnnister  in  1S89.  After  jjractising 
atone  two  years,  Mr.  Hartley,  in  1  Sgo,  formed 
a  coi>artner.shiii  with  ]''rank  B.  L'ar\ell,  under 
the  present  firm  name,  and  has  since  built  up 
and  carrieil  on  an  extensive  general  law  prac- 
tice. He  is  connected  with  several  local  busi- 
ness organizations,  being  a  director  of  the 
Small  &  Fisher  Company;  director,  secretary, 
and  treasurer  of  tiie  Maritime  Pure  l""ood  Com- 
jjanv;  director  and  secretary  of  the  Woodstock 
Carriage  Comjiany ;  secretary  of  the  Uaird 
Company,  Limited,  druggists;  and  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Idbiciue  Kiver  Log  Driv- 
ing Company.  A  Con.servative  in  jiolitics,  he 
takes  the  stump  in  every  campaign,  and  does 
most  effectual  work  for  his  jiarty.  l""or  the 
jKi.st  nine  or  ten  )ears  he  has  served  as  Town 
Clerk.  He  is  an  active  member  of  Ivauhoe 
Lodge,  K.  of  v.,  of  which  he  is  1'.  C. 

Mr.  Hartley  married  Sarah,  daughter  of 
John  S.  Leighton,  of  Woodstock,  and  they 
have  one  son,  R.  l'erle\  Hartley.  Mis.  Hart- 
le_\'  is  a  member  of  the  ]ia|)tist  chunii. 


§.\Mi;S  HARHLR,  surve\-or  and  measiuvr 
of  .shijiping  at  the  port  of  St.  John,  was 
born  in  Old  Meldruni,  Aberdeenshire, 
Scotland,  May  19,  1819,  son  of  John  and 
Christian  (Allan)  liarlier.  He  was  educated 
in  Scotland,  and  at  the  age  of  si.Nteen  he  came 
to  .St.  John  with  his  cousin,  John  Duncan,  of 
the  ship-building  (iiin  of  Owens  S;  Duiuau,  for 


whom  he  worked  for  the  six  years  following 
his  arrival.  He  ne.\t  engaged  in  the  lumber 
manufacturing  industry,  ami  about  the  year 
1846  he  became  associated  with  Alexander 
I'etrie  in  purchasing  and  operating  saw-mills. 
This  firm,  which  transacted  business  in  St. 
John  and  Liver|)oo],  being  known  in  the  prov- 
ince as  James  Barber  &  Co.,  and  in  luigland  as 
Alexander  Tetrie,  Laughland  &  Co.,  existed 
about  two  years.  y\fter  this  Mr.  Barber  served 
four  yer.rs  as  secretary  of  the  Albert  Mining 
Comi)any  and  one  year  as  its  manager.  He 
later  became  ecretary  of  the  Caledonia  (^il 
Com[)any,  which  manufactured  coal  oil,  and  was 
forced  to  suspend  operations,  partly  by  the  high 
tariff  in)])()sed  by  the  L'nited  States  govern- 
ment during  the  Civil  War  and  partly  by  the 
discovery  of  the  oil  wells  in  Pennsylvania.  In 
1856  he  turned  his  attention  to  farming,  which 
he  followed  for  twelve  years.  In  i86S  he 
was  ai)])ointed  Ciiief  Clerk  in  the  Registry  of 
Shipping,  connected  with  the  Department  of 
Customs  in  .St.  John,  N.  B. ,  and  Measuring 
Surveyor  of  .Shipping  in  the  Deiiartment  of 
Marine  and  l'"isheries.  He  continued  in  that 
office  until  1895,  when  lie  was  succeeded  by 
his  .son,  but  still  holds  the  position  of  Measur- 
ing Surveyor  of  .Slii|)ping. 

On  March  7,  1856,  Mr.  l^arber  was  uniteil 
in  marriage  with  Janet  Brown,  a  native  of 
Clasgow,  .Scotland,  daughter  of  James  and  Jane 
(McClymont)  Brown.  .She  became  the  mother 
of  four  children  ;  namely,  Keith  Allan,  Jeannie 
.McClymont,  Kilmcny  Christian,  and  Mary 
Alice.  Keith  .Allan  Barber  is  now  Chief 
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McClymoiit  is  the  wile  of  Struati  Robertison,  of 
the  firm  of  A.  Chipman  Smith  &  Co.,  St. 
John.  Mary  Alice  died  at  the  age  of  six 
years. 

Mr.  ]?arher  is  an  honorary  member  of  .St. 
Andrew's  Society,  l-'or  many  years  he  was  a 
trustee  of  St.  Stepiicn's  (I'resliyterian)  Church. 


SOSKPH  HENRY  SCAMMKI.L,  ship- 
broker  and  commission  merchant,  St. 
John,  was  born  in  that  city,  April  lo, 
1837,  son  of  Jose])!!  and  J-'annie  Matilda 
(Walker)  Scammcll.  His  father  was  born  in 
Wylie,  I'lngland,  August  9,  1809,  and  his 
mother  was  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia. 

Coming  to  this  city  when  he  was  a  yf)ung 
man,  Joseph  Scammell,  in  company  with  his 
brother  William,  opened  the  St.  John  Hotel, 
which  stood  at  the  head  of  King  Street;  and 
he  was  later  proprietor  of  the  Waverly  House, 
then  one  of  the  jiopular  hostelries  of  the  Prov- 
ince. Joseph  and  William  Scammell  belonged 
to  the  Masonic  order,  and  Joseph  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Trinity  Church.  He  married  on  his 
birthday,  August  9,  1832,  Fannie  .Matilda 
Walker.  They  became  the  parents  of  nine 
children,  namely:  John  Walter,  born  Septem- 
ber 28,  1833,  who  (lied  May  16,  1897;  Annie 
Tilton,  who  was  born  May  19,  1835,  and  is 
now  the  widow  of  George  Hyron  Cushing,  of 
St.  John;  Joseph  Henry,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  Harriett  Matilda,  born  August  10, 
1839,  who  died  May  9,  1847;  Willi.im  Perot, 
born  July  27,  1S41,  who  died  August  5,   1S42; 


I'jiima  Julia,  who  was  born  June  13,  1843,  and 
resides  in  .St.  John;  Charlen  l-Mward,  born 
March  19,  1845,  who  also  resides  in  St.  John; 
Helen  Matilda,  born  March  25,  1847,  now  the 
wife  of  Joseph  Allison,  of  .St.  John;  and  P'red- 
erick  Krnest,  born  June  30,  1S49,  now  a  resi- 
dent of  New  York. 

Joseph  Henry  Scammell  ])ursued  the  regular 
course  of  .study  at  the  .St.  John  Grannnar 
School,  and  completed  his  education  in  Kings- 
ton, N.  n.  iMitering  the  lumber  business  as  a 
clerk  for  K.  D.  Jewett,  he  remained  with  him 
some  eight  or  nine  years,  at  the  end  of  which 
time  lie  engaged  in  the  shipi)ing  business,  first 
alone  and  later  in  conijian)'  with  .Sargent  .S. 
Littlehale,  now  of  Stockton,  C'al.  After  the 
withdrawal  of  Mr.  Littlehale,  John  Walter 
.Scammell  was  admitted  to  ])artnershi|),  and 
still  later  P'rederick  K.  Scammell  entered  the 
concern,  thus  forming  the  well-known  firm  of 
Scammell  brothers,  who  for  many  years  were 
prominent  shipowners,  commission  meri'liants, 
and  steamship  agents,  being  the  local  rejiresent- 
atives  of  the  Anchor  Line.  The  jjresent  firm 
of  J.  IL  .Scammell  &  Co.  succeeded  the  old 
concern  in  tSgj,  and  are  still  tran.«acting  a 
general  brokerage  and  commission  business. 

In  1857  Mr.  Scammell  married  Miss  Maria 
Louise  .Stevens,  daughter  of  .Sanforcl  .Stevens, 
of  Pitt.ston,  Me.  One  child  burn  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Scammell  died  in  infancy,  and  livechil- 
tlren  are  now  living,  namel)  :  lulward  Jewett, 
in  Daw.son  City,  N.W.  T.  ;  P'rank  S. ,  a  resi- 
lient of  Boston,  .Mass.;  J.  Henry  Scammell, 
M.l).,  of  St.  John,  a  graduate  of  McGill 
College,   Montreal;  John   Kimball,  a   (i\il   en- 


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{^ineer  of  St.  John;  and  Sanford  W.  Scanimcll, 
of  Boston,  Mass. 


WI.LIAM  UROUARD  MACKKX- 
ZII".,  chief  engineer  of  tlie  Inter- 
colonial Railway,  has  his  heackiuartcrs  in 
Moncton,  X.M.,  which  has  heen  his  jilace  of 
residence  for  many  years.  Horn  February  16, 
1848,  in  Pictou  County,  Nova  .Scotia,  he  is  a 
son  of  the  late  James  Mackenzie  and  the  de- 
scendant of  sturdy  Scotch  ancestors. 

His  paternal  grandfather,  William  Macken- 
zie, was  horn  and  educated  in  .Scotland,  hut  in 
early  manhood  emigrated  to  Nova  Scotia.  Lo- 
cating in  I'ictou  County,  he  took  up  a  tract  of 
land  that  was  still  in  its  primeval  wildness, 
and  hy  dint  of  persevering  toil  secured  a  home- 
stead, on  which  he  was  pros)5crously  engagetl  in 
general  farming  and  lumbering  until  his  de- 
mise, at  the  age  of  si.xty-tive  years.  Indus- 
trious, honest,  and  thrifty,  he  became  influential 
in  the  community,  and  was  numbered  among 
its  most  respected  citizens,  lie  married  Kate 
Sutherland,  and  had  seven  children,  of  whom 
two,  Hugh  and  I-'rancis,  are  now  living.  His 
sons  all  became  land  surveyors  and  road-mak- 
ers, and  had  charge  of  the  construction  of 
nearly  all  the  highways  and  bridges  in  .Nova 
Scotia.  His  widow  survived  him  a  number 
of  years,  passing  away  at  the  age  of  fourscore 
years  and  ten. 

James  Mackenzie,  son  of  William  and  Kate, 
was  born  in  I'ictou  County,  Nova  Scotia,  in 
the  settlement  now  called  Kenzieville,  where 
he  sjient  a  large  part  of  his  life,  and  where  he 


died  at  the  comparatively  early  age  of  si.xty 
years.  Learning  the  jirofession  of  a  land  sur- 
veyor and  civil  engineer,  he  followed  it  for  a 
long  time,  and  in  connection  with  bridge  antl 
railroad  i)uilding  was  well  known  throughout 
the  Province.  He  owned  a  good  farm,  and  was 
engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  during  his 
later  days.  His  widow,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Maria  Hrouard,  is  still  living,  and  makes 
her  home  with  her  children,  of  whom  Will- 
iam H.,  the  subject  of  this  brief  biograi)hical 
sketch,  is  the  eldest.  The  others  are  Ma- 
tilda, John,  Maria,  Hugh,  and  Tina.  One 
daughter,  Annie,  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Jeremiah 
lunbree,  died  a  few  years  ago. 

William  H.  Mackenzie  acquired  the  rudi- 
ments of  his  education  in  the  district  school  of 
Kenzieville,  N.  S.,  and  afterw^ard  attended  the 
Pictou  Academy.  In  1S72  he  became  attached 
to  the  Interc(donial  Railway  as  the  chief  en- 
gineer's office  assistant,  a  position  which  he 
filled  for  eight  years.  l''rom  iSSo  to  1S97  he 
was  assistant  engineer.  In  1S97  he  was  ap- 
pointed to  his  jiresent  position  as  chief  engi- 
neer of  this  road,  and  is  now  one  of  its  most 
pojiular  and  trusted  officials. 

Mr.  Mackenzie  has  been  twice  married,  and 
is  the  father  of  five  children,  namely:  1)\-  his 
fust  wife,  Marion  Ladtl,  of  iMigland,  who  died 
a  few  years  after  theii'  marriage,  Una  and 
Lucy;  and  by  his  second  wife,  Lizzie  Hunter, 
of  .Nova  .Scotia,  three  children  —  Katrina, 
Hrouard,  and  X'ivienne.  Mr.  Mackenzie  is  a 
member  of  the  Reformed  Church  of  Lngland, 
and  Mrs.  Mackenzie  is  an  attendant  of  the 
Baptist  church. 


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^RANK  AMOS  CODSOl-:,  D.D.S.,  a 
9  native  rcsiclcnl  of  St.  John,  was  bdiii 
1)11  January  15,  1862,  son  of  William  C'a'ij;l>- 
ton  and  Mary  S.  (Habhitt)  Godsuc.  The 
(lodsoc  family,  wliicii  is  one  of  the  oldest  in 
the  city,  is  descended  fiom  William  Godsoe, 
who  came  from  New  Haven,  t'onn.,  in  com- 
pany with  Messrs.  Sinionds,  White,  and 
Hazcn,  and  arrived  here  on  July  11,  1763. 
William  Godsoe  served  as  Constable,  and  was 
Deputy  Sheriff  about  the  \ear  iSiJ.  lie  dieil 
at  the  a^e  of  seventy-three  years. 

Charles  Godsoe,  l)\:  Godsoe's  j;randfather, 
was  born  in  St.  John  in  1S04.  lie  followed 
the  butclier's  trade  from  his  youth  upward. 
Ho  ilieil  of  cholera  durinj;'  an  epidemic  of  that 
di.scase  in  1854.  He  married  Ann  Crei{;hton, 
dauf(hter  of  William  Creij^hton,  a  blacksmith, 
who  came  from  Maine  to  Gagetown.  The 
maiden  name  of  her  mother  was  Titus. 
Charles  Godsoe  and  his  wife  had  eight  chil- 
dren; namely,  William  C,  Charles,  Jose[)h, 
T.  Amos,  I'hcbe  Ann,  Melissa,  I.o  l^aron,  and 
.Susan.  Joseph,  I'hebe  Ann,  and  Susan  aie  110 
longer  living.  Melissa  is  the  widow  of  Mat- 
thew Wilson,  1,0  Baron  Godsoe  resides  in 
Philadelphia,  antl  Charles,  Jr.,  is  living  in 
St.  John. 

William  Crt'igbton  (iodsoe,  I)i'.  Godsoe's 
father,  served  an  ajiprent  iieship  of  several 
years  at  the  butcher's  trade  with  Nathan  and 
Charles  Godsoe,  and  in  1S47  look  charge  of 
the  business  owned  by  a  Mr.  Waters,  which  he 
carried  on  until  his  emjiloyer's  death.  In 
iSsn,  with  his  brother  Thomas  Amos,  he  en- 
gaged   in   business   for  himself;  and    in    Ma\-, 


1S99,  after  more  than  half  .1  centur\'  of  dili- 
gent ap|)lication,  be  retired.  He  belongs  to 
the  Masonic  order,  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  ]''ollows,  the  Sons  of  Temperance,  ami  the 
Orange  Society,  and  has  occupied  important 
chairs  in  one  or  more  <if  these  organizations. 
He  married  in  1S52  Mary  S.  liabbitt,  who  died 
on  September  25.  189.?.  She  was  a  daughter 
of  Samuel  Babbitt,  and  a  descendant  of  Loyal- 
ists who  came  to  Xew  Brunswick  after  the 
close  of  the  .American  Revolution.  .Mrs. 
God.soe  became  the  motbei'  of  eight  ihildren, 
of  whom  those  living  are:  Charles  Miller, 
D.D.S.  ;  l-'rank  A.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
Minnie  M.  ;  I'" red  Coster;  and  William  Creigh- 
ton,  Jr.  Charles  .Millei'  Godsoe  is  practising 
dentistry  on  one  of  the  West  India  Islands. 
Fred  C.  and  William  C.,  Jr.,  with  the  subject 
of  this  sketch,  are  proprietors  of  the  American 
Steam  Laundry  in  St.  John,  the  largest  and 
most  tboroughl)-  equi]iped  laundry  in  tlie  Mari- 
time I'rovinces. 

l'"rank  Amos  Godsoe  finished  his  genera 
education  at  the  St.  John  Granuuar  .School 
under  Dr.  11.  S.  Bridges  in  1879,  when  he 
entered  the  employ  of  the  .St.  Jolm  Clcbc. 
After  two  years'  service  with  the  liloht  ho 
took  up  the  study  of  deiUistry,  under  the  pre- 
ceptorship  of  Dr.  J.  V..  Griflilh,  of  .St.  John, 
and  in  1881  entered  the  Boston  Dental  College, 
from  which  he  gra(hialed  in  1885.  After  re- 
maining in  Boston  for  another  )ear,  during 
which  he  was  engaged  in  professional  work,  he 
returned  to  St.  John,  where  he  has  built  up  an 
extensive  practice.  He  spares  no  exertion  in 
keeping  in  touch  with   advanced    ideas   relati\e 


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to  his  ])rnfession,  and  availinj;  liimsclf  of  new 
nictlidds  and  inipidvcd  appliancos.  He  is  at 
llie  piesLMit  time  serving;  as  Rej,Mstrar  ot  tlic 
C'dinu'il  (if  tiic  New  l!i  unswick  Dental  Sncioty, 
and  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  New  Krnns- 
wiek  Dental  Society. 

On  A[)ril  15,  1S90,  Dr.  (iodsoe  was  united 
ill  niarriagc  with  (.  irrie  M.  I'iilis,  a  native  of 
New  \o\k  and  a  d;uit;hter  of  Thomas  l^llis. 

The  Doctor  is  a  I'ast  Master  of  Albion 
Lod},'c,  No.  I,  V.  &  A.  M.  ;  Past  Higii  I'riest 
of  New  Brunswick  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons;  and  Past  I'receptor  of  De  Molay 
I'receptory,  Kniglits  Templar.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Union  Lodge,  No.  2,  Knights  of  I'yth 
ias,  anil  is  prominently  idenliticd  with  this 
order,  being  a  Past  (irantl  Chancellor  of  tiie 
(irand  Ddniain  of  the  Maritime  Provinces,  and 
having  held  the  principal  offices  in  the  Uniform 
Rank  of  this  order,  being  at  present  on  the  staff 
of  the  Colonel. 


rOHN  BAKKR  FOR.STKR,  a  well- 
known  and  highly  esteemed  citizen  of 
Diirchester,  N.H.,  was  born  Ajiril  5, 
1S4J,  in  Ricliibucto,  Kent  (."ounty,  N.  R. ,  a 
son  of  James  and  Isabella  (Raker)  P'oister. 
His  paternal  grandfatiier,  Wilfred  Korster,  a 
pioneer  settler  of  Ricliibucto,  was  the  son  of 
'I'honias  Forster,  a  lifelong  resident  of  I'jig- 
land,  wlio  married  a  Miss  .Stuart,  said  to  have 
been  a  descendant  of  tiie  royal  family  of 
Stuart. 

Wilfred   P'orster  was   born,  reared,  and   eiiu- 
cated    in   Cumberland    County,    luigland,    and 


lived  there  until  1826,  when  he  followed  the 
tide  of  emigration  westward.  Coming  to  New 
Rnmswick,  he  located  in  Ricliibucto,  the  town 
at  that  time  containing  but  live  duelling- 
houses.  He  bought  land,  aiul,  being  alread)' 
possessed  of  considerable  wealth,  was  consid- 
ered a  gentleman  fanner.  He  attained  the  age 
of  threescore  years  a  id  ten.  His  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  was  I'ilizabeth  (iraliam,  was  born 
in  Cumberland  County,  Mngland,  and  died  at 
the  age  of  eighty-nine  years  in  Ricliibucto. 
Ikith  were  members  of  the  Church  of  ICngland. 
They  had  seven  children,  of  whom  but  one  is 
living  —  Ann,  widow  of  the  late  l-ldnumd 
Powell,  who  was  a  son  of  iXbsalom  Powell. 
Mrs.  Powell  has  six  children;  namely,  biliza- 
beth,  William,  Charles,  Alfred,  Henry  A., 
and  Clifford.  1-'. lizabetli  is  the  wife  of  Dr. 
David  Alli.son,  of  Sackville,  N.R. ,  and  has 
three  children  P'dmund  P.,  Davio,  and 
Harry.  William  married  Annie  Haines,  of 
Richibucto,  and  has  four  children  —  Mary  K., 
William  Kdmuiid,  lllizabeth,  and  .Sarah. 
Charles  married  I'^liza  Wallace,  and  has  one 
child,  Allison.  Alfred  married  Agnes  Mi- 
shauil,  and  has  four  children  Margaret, 
lleni)-,  Herbert,  and  l.lovd  Carl.  Henry  A., 
of  whom  a  sketch  may  be  found  on  another 
page  of  this  volume,  married  ;\lice  Pa\s(jn, 
aiul  has  two  children       Lena  and  Ralph. 

James  Forster,  son  of  Wilfreil,  was  born  in 
Scotland  in  the  early  |)art  of  the  present  cen- 
tury, and  was  a  lad  <if  fifteen  years  when  he 
came  with  his  jjarents  to  this  country  and  set- 
tled in  Richibucto.  There  he  subsequently 
completed  his  education,  having  as  teacher  the 


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present  Senator,  David  \V;irk,  now  of  I'icikric 
toil,  N.  H.  After  IcMviiij;  school  lu-  went  to 
sea  a  mniil)er  of  years,  and  then  end)arked  in 
the  eoastin^  traiie  as  master  of  his  own  vessels, 
niaking  trips  alonj;  the  siiores  of  Maine,  New 
Urunswiek,  and  Nova  Scotia,  lie  was  a  Con- 
servative in  politics  and  a  member  of  the 
Chinch  of  l'".n>;lan(l.  lie  died  at  the  a;;e  of 
seventy-six  years,  havinj;  liveil  a  lonj;  and  nse- 
ful  life.  His  fnst  wife  was  Isabella  Haker, 
danj,'btcr  of  John  Haker,  of  Triiiee  lulward 
Island.  She  bore  him  seven  children,  of  whom 
John  H. ,  the  snbject  of  this  sketch,  is  the  only 
survivor.  Another  son,  William  I''orster, 
was  a  telegraph  operator  in  New  \'ork  (!ity  at 
the  breakiii;;  out  of  the  Civil  War  in  the 
United  States.  Heiny  sent,  with  others,  on 
an  expedition  to  tap  the  rebel  wires  between 
Charlestcni  and  Savannah,  he  was  in  comniuni- 
eation  with  the  Southern  main  army  for  five 
hours,  taking'  cpiite  a  number  of  very  important 
messaj^es  to  the  eonmiaiuling  j^eiieral  of  the 
Northern  army.  He  was  then  captured  by  the 
rebels,  and  sent  to  ("(dunibia,  S. C. ,  and  from 
there  to  the  prison  at  Aiulersonville,  (ia., 
where,  after  ten  months'  confinement,  he  died 
of  starvation,  a  young  nian  and  unmarried. 
After  the  death  of  his  first  wife  when  she  was 
but  twenty-eight  years  old,  Mr.  James  Korster 
married  Mrs.  Jane  Kobotliam,  who  died  in 
1856.  Two  children  were  born  of  that  union, 
but  neither  is  now  livinj;. 

John  Haker  l-'orsler  obt.iined  his  early  edu- 
cation in  Kiehibucto,  where  he  afterward 
learned  telegraphy,  ami  was  for  some  time  an 
operator  in  the  telegraph  offirc.      A  young  man 


of  unusual  b\isincss  (|uaIifications,  very  skilful 
in  his  liiu'  of  work,  he  was  made  in  1S59 
superintendent  of  the  telegraph  line  between 
Kichibucto  and  Moncton,  a  position  which  he 
held  until  1  K67,  having  his  heatUpiarters  in  the 
former  place.  l''rom  I.S57  until  1  SfiS  he  was 
also  interested  in  the  shii)|)ing  business,  and 
ran  a  jiacket  between  Sbediae  and  Kichibucto. 
In  I.S68,  at  the  opening  of  the  luistern  Ivxten- 
sioii  Railway,  now  |)art  of  the  Intercolonial, 
he  was  appointed  station  agent  at  I'ainsac 
Junction,  where  he  remained  until  1869,  when 
he  went  to  Nova  Scotia  to  put  the  railway  e.\- 
tending  fr<im  I'ictou  to  llalifa.x  on  the  same 
working  s)stem  as  that  in  nse  on  the  Inter- 
colonial Railway.  Mr.  For.ster  went  to  I'oint 
(In  Chien  in  1870  as  station  agent  on  the 
Intercolonial  Railway,  and  ccmtinued  in  that 
capacity  four  years.  In  1870  he  became  agent 
for  several  lines  of  steamers  running  from 
Montreal  and  Uuebec  to  I'ictou,  N.  S. ,  calling  at 
Shediae,  an  office  which  he  resigned  in  1879  to 
accept  that  of  Deputy  Warden  at  the  Dominion 
Penitentiary,  Dorchester,  N.  H.,an  institution 
with  which  he  has  since  been  connected,  hav- 
ing been  appointed  by  the  Dominion  govern- 
ment in  1887  to  his  present  jiosition  as 
Warden.  Fraternally,  he  is  a  .Mason,  being 
a  member  of  Kichibucto  Lodge,  I"'.  &  A.  M. 

Mr.  I'drster  married  on  March  16,  1870, 
luiphemia,  daughter  of  William  Cooke,  M.D. , 
of  ricton,  N.  S.  Si.\  children  have  been  born 
■if  this  union,  and  three  ;ire  now  living; 
namely,  Sarah  McD.,  John  I'".  C,  and  Will- 
iam C.  Mr.  I'"orster  and  his  family  arc  mem- 
bers   uf    the    Church  of    England.      He  is  the 


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New  Brunswick  Synod's  trustee  for  the 
'"t'liurcli  School  for  (iirls,"  Windsor,  N.S., 
and  a  Goxc.inr  of  King's  College,  Windsor, 
N.  S. 


■OHN  I,]-:  LACIIiaJR,  of  the  firm  of 
Howman  &  I,e  Lacheur,  contractors  and 
builders,  St.  John,  was  horn  at  Gurnsey 
Cove,  south  side  of  Murray  Harbor,  Prince 
ICdward  Island,  Novembei  22,  1829,  a  son  of 
Harthoioniew  and  Margaret  (Hawkins)  Le 
I.acheur.  He  was  four  years  of  age  when  his 
paternal  grandfather,  John  Le  I.acheur,  first, 
who  was  a  native  of  the  island  of  Guernsey, 
settled  in  Prince  lulward  Island  and  engaged 
there  in  agriculture.  Bartholomew  Le 
Lacheur  and  his  wife  weij  farming  people. 
They  were  the  i)arents  of  five  sons  and  four 
daughters,  ail  of  whom  are  now  living.  One, 
David  W.,  has  been  for  many  years  a  mission- 
ary in  Chiiia.  The  rest  of  the  family,  witii 
the  e.\ce])tion  of  Ciiles  and  John,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch,  are  now  residents  of  Prince 
lid  ward  Island. 

John  Le  Lacheur  served  an  apprenticeship 
of  seven  years  to  the  carpenter's  trade  in 
Ciiar'ottotown,  P.  L.  1.  In  1853  he  came  ic 
St.  John,  where  he  followed  iiis  trade  as  a 
journeyman  until  185.S.  In  the  year  last 
named  he  formed  his  jiresent  partnership  with 
Mr.  W.  II.  Bowman,  and  they  have  since 
done  an  extensive  and  lucrative  business. 
They  are  now  the  oldest  firm  of  contractors  in 
St.  John,  and  none  have  a  better  record  for 
thorough  work,  punctuality,  and  honest  busi- 
ness methods. 


While  a  resident  of  Charlottctown  Mr.  Lc 
Lacheur  became  a  member  of  the  fire  depart- 
ment of  that  place,  and  also  of  the  Sons  of 
Tem|)erance.  On  coming  to  .St.  John  he 
joined  the  lire  department  in  that  city,  and 
continued  his  memberslii[)  in  the  .Sons  of 
Temperance  by  joining  the  local  branch  of 
that  organization.  He  is  now  treasurer  of 
the  I-'iremen's  Relief  Association.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  New  '  runswick  Lotlge, 
K.  of  P. 

He  was  married  in  i860  to  Miss  Ma.rgaret 
.Spear,  daughter  of  John  Spear,  a  prominent 
pilot  on  the  Bay  of  I'undy,  residing  at  St. 
John.  Mrs.  Le  Lacheur's  mother  was  before 
marriage  Miss  Mary  Hudson  of  St.  John, 
daughter  of  Captain  Hudson. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Le  Lacheur  are  the  parents  of 
four  children  —  Alice,  Marion,  Margaret,  and 
Joim.  Alice  is  tlic  wife  of  Lrasti  ■  .)nes,  of 
St.  John.  John  married  Anna  Nuniatt,  of 
-St.  John,  of  which  city  he  is  a  resident.  All 
the  members  of  Mr.  Le  Laciieur's  family  at- 
tend the  Methodist  church. 


iLi.i.xM    i'ri;i)i;ruk    mvi;rs, 

inanufaclU'cr  of  maciiincry,  .St. 
John,  N.H. ,  was  born  in  tiiis  city  in  1853, 
being  the  son  of  Samuel  and  I.(niisa  (Briggs) 
Myers,  both  of  (jueens  County. 

His  grandfather,  Jacob  M)ers,  wiio  was  a 
native  of  New  Brunswick,  icmo\cd  to  New 
Jersey,  but  icturncd  in  1783  to  St.  John,  wiicre 
he  carried  on  a  carpenter  business  until  1843. 
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he  entered  into  partiicrsliip  with  J.  K.  Masters, 
•and  carried  on  a  general  carriage  business.  In 
1854,  in  connection  with  his  son,  Samuel 
Myers,  he  built  the  shop  on  Waterloo  Street, 
and  there  engaged  in  manufacturing  carriages 
and  machinery  for  mills  and  manufacturing 
purposes.  .Soon  after  they  introduced  the 
necessary  machinery  fo""  a  machine  shop,  which 
branch  was  conducted  by  .Samuel  Myer.s. 
Jacob  Myers  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-three 
years.  II is  wife  was  .Sarah  lUmncll.  They 
had  a  family  of  three  children  —  .Samuel, 
Sarah,  and  l-Llizabcth.  .Sarah  became  the  wife 
of  VV.  11.  White,  and  IClizabeth  married  Cap- 
tain Potts. 

Samuel  Myers,  father  of  William  I'"rederick, 
learned  the  trade  of  a  millwright,  wliich  he 
followed  some  years;  and  later  he  formed  a 
partnership  with  hi:;  father.  After  liis  father's 
death  he  succeeded  to  the  business,  to  whicii 
he  addeil  the  manufacturing  of  general  ma- 
chinery, and  carried  on  an  extensive  enter|)rise 
until  1S79,  when  iie  retired.  Mr.  Samuel 
Myers  is  a  member  of  the  Methotlist  cliurch, 
and  was  secretary  of  a  .Sunday-school.  .Since 
his  retirement  he  has  resided  in  Rothesay. 
He  married  first  Louisa  Ih  iggs,  daughter  of 
Mbene/er  Ihiggs,  of  (jueens  Count)-.  vSiie 
died  in  1.S63,  and  he  subsc(|uently  married  Mrs. 
Klizabeth  Holder.  I'ive  children  were  born  of 
his  first  union,  and  four  of  them  are  living; 
namely,  Sarah,  (irace,  William  I-'rcderick,  and 
Jacob  Willit  Myers.  .Sarah  is  the  wife  of 
Charles  Xevins,  of  New  \'ork.  (irace  mar- 
rieil  John  .Sjme,  of  St.  John.  Jaiiii)  Wiliit 
Myers,  who  was  born  in    St.  John    in    iS5,S,  is 


associated  witii  li  s  brother,  William   I'redcr- 
ick,  in  business.      He  married  F.dith  Green. 

Williar,  '''>  dcriek  Myers  was  educated  in 
the  .schools  of  St.  John.  After  completing  his 
studies  he  entered  his  father's  shop,  and  later 
was  admitted  to  partnership.  Upon  his  father's 
retirement,  in  1879,  he  succ  ded  to  the  busi- 
ness, and  in  iS.Sjhis  brother,  Jacob  W.  Myers, 
became  as.sociated  with  him  under  the  firm 
name  of  W.  I''.  &  J.  W.  Myers.  In  1895  they 
began  to  make  a  specialty  of  manufacturing 
electric  apjiliances,  and  they  are  now  carrying 
on  an  exlensive  business.  Their  building 
covers  a  s|)ace  of  ninety-seven  by  one  hundred 
feet,  and  their  products  aie  used  throughout 
the  Maritime  Provinces. 


()H1:RT  a.  MURDOCH,  a  well- 
known  merchant  of  Chatham,  .N.H., 
was  i)orn  at  Murdoch's  Point  on 
June  12,  1857.  He  is  a  son  of  the  late  Alex- 
ander Murdoch,  of  wiioni  mention  is  made  in 
anotiier  sketch  in  tiiis  work.  .Xltending  suc- 
cessi\e])'  the  ])ublic  schools  and  .St.  Micliael's 
Academy,  he  received  a  practical  e<lucation, 
which  has  been  invaluable  to  him  in  later 
years.  On  leaving  school  he  went  into  a  dry- 
goods  store  at  Moncton  as  clerk,  luit  subse- 
quently came  to  Chatham,  where  for  three 
years  he  was  in  the  employ  of  William  Murry. 
In  1880  he  was  ajipointed  travelling  salesman 
for  the  district  east  of  Montreal  and  tiirough 
the  Maritime  Pro\iiHes.  Until  189,^  he  con- 
tinued in  this  position,  becoming  thoroughly 
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knowledge  of  human  nature.  Thus  cquijiped, 
lie  started  business  for  himself  in  Chatham, 
and  in  a  short  time  beeanie  one  of  the  leading 
merchants  of  the  city.  He  was  the  first  in 
New  Urunswick  to  establish  a  business  on  a 
strictly  cash  basis.  He  now  cairics  a  stock  of 
goods  worth  from  twelve  to  fourteen  thousand 
dollars,  and  keeps  five  clerks  emplo\etl. 

Mr.  Murdoch  was  married  in  1.S83  to  Miss 
Mary  Allen,  a  daughter  of  CajUain  James 
.Allen,  of  this  place.  She  has  Ijeen  the 
mother  of  tive  ciiildren,  bv  name:  Lilian, 
Henedict,  Robert,  Mar\-,  and  I'rances.  Mr. 
Murdoch  was  one  of  the  first  Aldermen  of 
Chatham.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  church,  and  of  the  C.  M.  H.  A. 
Politically,  he  is  a  Coiiservati\c  of  the  tyjie 
of  the  late  Sir  |ohn  McDonald. 


ll.Ll.XM  A.  OUINTON,  Fairville, 
.\.n. ,  farmer  and  lumber  dealer, 
was  born  April  4,  1.S47,  in  the  parish  of  Lan- 
caster, county  of  .St.  John.  He  is  the  de- 
scendant of  an  (dd  and  liighl\'  rcjiutable  Kng- 
lish  faniih  that  was  tirst  reiuesented  in  New 
Brunswick  liy  Hugh  (juinton  and  his  wife, 
who,  with  a  part)  of  settlers,  arrived  at  the 
mouth  of  the  St.  Jolm  River  .\ugust  2S,  1762. 
James  (juinton,  son  of  Hugh,  was  noted  in 
after  life  as  the  fust  child  of  the  new  settlers 
iiorn  there,  he  ha\iiig  tirst  si'cn  the  light  in 
I-"ort  Frederick  the  evening  of  their  arrival. 
Hugh  (Juinton  was  born  in  New  Hampshire. 


He  is  thought  to  have  been  the  son  of  James 
(juinton,  of  Cheshire,  or  C'hestcr. 

In  the  New  Hampsh!  e  records  the  name  of 
the  family  is  given  by  town  and  parish  clerks 
as  (juinton,  (Juenton,  (juanton,  and  (Juentin. 
The  latter  was  probably  the  spelling  of  the 
name  when  it  was  first  introduced  into  I'-ng- 
land  as  a  surname,  and  it  eventually  became 
anglicized  to  (juinton.  It  appears  to  behing 
to  that  class  of  surnames  brought  into  luigland 
about  the  time  of  W'illiani  I.,  derived  from 
I'"rench  towns  or  places.  The  town  of  St. 
(juentin  in  I'icardy  was  so  called  in  honor 
of  (juentin,  an  early  Christian  martyr.  Sir 
Walter  Scott  names  the  leading  character  of 
his  novel  of  (Juentin  Durward  for  the  saint. 
The  first  or  founder  of  this  family  in  I'Jigland 
was  .Sir  Herbert  .St.  (juentin,  a  companion  in 
arms  of  William  the  Concpieror,  who  granted 
hiin  the  manor  of  Skipsay  and  other  lands  in 
County  Notts.  .Sir  Herbert  St.  (juentin,  a 
grandson,  who  was  summoned  to  Parliament 
in  1294,  had  two  daughters — Llizabeth  and 
Lora;  and  the  latter,  who  became  sole  heir, 
married  Robert  de  (irey,  of  Rothersfield. 
The  barony  of  .St.  (juentin  passed  through 
(irey,  I'"itzhugli,  and  I'arr  id  the  Larl  of  Pem- 
broke, descending  from  William  .St.  (  Uientin, 
eldest  surviving  s(ui  of  Ivlward  H.  and  fourth 
in  descent  from  the  founder  of  the  cmnitv. 
The  last  l)aron  was  .Sir  William  St.  (juentin, 
who  died  in  1 705.  when  tlie  baiony  became 
extinct.  His  nephew,  William  Thomas 
Danby,  ol  -Sunberry,  Middlesex,  was  his  heir, 
and  upon  succeeding  to  the  estate  assumed  the 
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son,  Matthew  Chitty  Downes  St.  Ouentin. 
There  seem  to  be  sevcal  branches  of  this  fam- 
ily besides  the  above  direct  line,  which  shows 
the  gradual  changing  of  the  name  from  St. 
Qucntin  to  Ouenton  and  (Jiiinton.  The  amis 
and  crest  of  the  different  branches  are  given 
in  both  IJinke's  and  l'"airbank's  Armory  of 
Families  of  Great  ]?ritain  and  Ireland. 

In  Ilatton's  list  of  emigrants  it  is  stated 
that  a  Henry  (Juinton,  aged  twenty,  left  Lon- 
don, June  2,  1634,  for  Virginia,  and  Roger 
Ouinton  left  London,  July  24,  1635,  for  the 
.same  place.  This  was  about  a  century  before 
the  name  of  James  Ouinton  appears  in  New 
Hampshire.  In  tlie  same  work  is  named 
Henry  Ouintyne,  of  Harbadocs,  as  a  person  to 
whom  were  consigned  convicted  rebels  from 
Bristol,  luigland,  in  id?')  and  i'')45.  This 
may  be  the  same  Henry  Quinton,  of  Harba- 
does,  named  in  the  will  of  .Samuel  S|)icer,  of 
Boston,  December  24,  1664,  who  speaks  of 
him  as  my  "loving  father-in-law,  Henry 
Ouinton."  This  will  is  quoted  in  the  New 
ICngland  Historical  anil  Genealogical  Register, 
vol.  .\vi.  p.  330. 

Before  his  removal  to  New  Brunswick,  and 
when  but  a  youth,  Hugh  Ouinton  served  in 
the  old  French  War.  He  first  enlisted  at 
Windham,  formerly  part  of  Londonderry, 
N.H.,  in  1757,  in  a  company  of  which  Her- 
cules Mooney  was  Captain  and  Alexander 
Todd  Lieutenant,  and  was  discharged  March 
5  of  the  same  year.  The  following  year  he 
again  enlisted,  April  u,  in  a  comiiany  of 
which  Ale.xander  Todd  was  Captain,  and  he 
was  discharged  October  30.      He  enlisted  for 


the  third  time  on  March  11,  1760,  and  on  the 
24th  of  October  was  discharged  sick,  and,  it  is 
said,  went  to  Albany,  N.  Y.  The  expeditions 
in  which  he  served  were  engaged  in  ojierations 
at  Crown  I'oint,  on  Lake  Champlain,  and  at 
Fort  William  Henry,  on  the  north  shore  of 
Lake  George.  T'ort  William  llenr)'  was  capt- 
ured by  the  l-'rench  and  Indians  in  August, 
1757,  and  out  of  tiie  two  hundred  New  Hamp- 
shire soldiers  eighty  were  mercilessly  slaugh- 
tered by  the  Indians  after  they  surrendered. 

Some  of  Hugh  Ouinton's  relatives  early 
settled  not  far  from  Albany,  in  that  part  of 
old  Whitehall  township  known  as  Hampton. 
Among  them  were  Josiah  and  John  Ouinton 
and  their  sister  Ann,  who  married  a  McFar- 
land.  In  1806  Josiah  moved  across  the  State 
line  to  Fair  Haven,  Vt.,  a  short  distance  from 
Hampton.  I'airbank's  History  of  I-'airhaven 
names  a  number  of  descendants. 

In  an  old  Ouinton  family  Bible  it  is  stated 
that  Hugh  Ouinton  was  born  at  Cheshire, 
N.  IL,  in  1741,  and  that  I'Mizabeth  Christy, 
whom  he  mariied  in  1761,  was  born  at  Lon- 
donderry, N.  H.,  also  in  1741.  In  the  town 
now  called  Chester,  which  was  originally 
calleil  Cheshire,  in  Rockingham  County,  was 
a  iirominent  early  settler  named  James  Ouen- 
ton. Tiie  fust  settlers  of  Cheshire  (or  Ches- 
ter), Londonderry,  Windham,  and  the  vicinity 
were  mainly  Scotch  Presbyterians  from  the 
north  of  Ireland.  In  the  New  Hamp.shire 
Provincial  Papers,  vol.  iv. ,  is  a  copied  peti- 
tion to  the  governor  from  sundry  inhabi- 
tants of  Chester  in  1737,  which  states  "that 
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formerly  belonged  (most  of  them)  to  the  king- 
dom of  Scotland  and  Ireland,  where  they  were 
educated  in  the  principles  of  the  Kirk  of  Scot- 
land, for  which  they  have  great  veneration," 
and  the  petition  proceeds  to  refer  to  some 
differences  about  calling  a  minister.  Among 
the  signers  is  the  name  James  Ouenton.  Me 
is  named  again  in  the  list  of  tax-jjayers,  1741, 
and  again  in  the  minutes  of  the  Presbyterian 
church,  September  14,  1753,  as  I'arish  Clerk. 
As  he  is  the  only  Ouenton  or  Ouinton  named 
in  the  full  list  of  tax-payers  at  that  jilace,  it 
is  reasonable  to  presume  that  he  was  the  father 
of  Hugh  Ouinton.  The  latter  had  two  balf- 
Inothers  named  Jonathan  and  Joshua.  In  1772 
a  J  )hn  Ouinton  is  named  in  Dorchester,  N.  H. 
In  the  Revolution  David  Ouinton  enlisted  Oc- 
tober I,  1777,  at  Windham,  and  he  is  again 
named  in  the  New  Hampshire  Provincial 
Papers,  vol.  ii.,  in  an  order  for  pay  of  a 
soldier's  dues,  1790.  After  this  the  writer 
has  found  no  mention  of  the  name  of  Quinton 
in  copies  of  New  Hampshire  records. 

In  the  early  days  of  the  settlement  of  the 
city  of  St.  John,  when  fears  were  entertained 
of  the  Indians,  Hugh  (Juinton,  it  is  saitl,  was 
appointed  Captain  of  a  militia  company  or- 
ganized for  the  defence  of  tlie  settlers.  He 
had  four  sons  —  John,  James,  William,  and 
Jesse. 

James  Ouinton,  the  second  son  and  father  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  a  farmer  and 
building  contractor  of  St.  John.  He  served 
two  terms  in  the  New  Hrunswick  Legislature, 
and  was  one  of  the  first  Confederation  members. 
He  married    P^lizabeth  Tilley,  a  daughter  of 


William  Tilley,  of  Gagetown,  and  first  consin 
of  Sir  Leonard  Tilley,  of  St.  John,  N. H. 

William  A.  Quinton  acquired  his  education 
in  the  city  of  St.  John.  At  the  age  of  twenty 
he  enlisted  in  the  militia,  and  attained  the  rank 
of  Major.  For  si.x  years  he  was  a  member  of 
the  City  Council  and  for  five  years  of  the 
Municipal  Council.  In  1882  he  was  returned 
as  member  of  the  Provincial  Legislature  for  St. 
John  County,  and  served  seven  years. 

On  December  6,  1877,  Mr.  Ouinton  married 
Kate  Allen,  daughter  of  R.  R.  Allen,  of 
Carleton,  St.  John.  His  residence  is  the  old 
family  homestead. 

Mr.  Ouinton  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
fraternity  and  the  Order  of  Orangemen.  He 
belongs  to  the  Church  of  England.  Politi- 
cally, he  is  a  Liberal. 

In  1S91  he  was  appointed  manager  and  stew- 
ard of  Provincial  Insane  Asylum,  which  is  lo- 
cated in  the  parish  of  Lancaster,  N.B.  He  is 
also  interested  in  the  lumber  business  and  lum- 
ber lands,  also  carries    on  general  farming. 


1;NRY  USI1I:R  MILLI:R,  late  a 
—•I  well-known  business  man  and  promi- 
nent citizen  of  St.  John,  was  born 
in  Hollis,  York  County,  Me.,  April  19,  1827, 
son  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Woodman) 
Miller.  When  quite  young  he  began  to  assist 
his  father  in  lumbering,  and  upon  reaching 
his  majority  went  to  ICUsworth,  Me.,  where 
he  was  associated  for  some  years  in  the  lum- 
ber business  with  his  brother,  Nathaniel  Jones 
Miller.     From   ICllsworth  he  went  to  Cham- 


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cook,  near  St.  Andrews,  N.  H.,  and  entered 
into  partnership  with  George  Gray,  with  whom 
he  carried  on  lumbering  operations  on  the 
Magaguadavic  River  for  a  time.  In  1866  he 
removed  from  Chamcooit  to  St.  John,  and  en- 
gaged in  the  manufacture  of  lumber  there  with 
C.  F.  Woodman.  The  firm  conducted  an  ex- 
tensive business,  giving  employment  to  a 
large  number  of  men,  and  was  favorably  known 
throughout  the  Province  as  a  prosperous  and 
enterprising  concern. 

In  1848  Mr.  Miller  married  Sarah  ICliza- 
beth  Berry,  a  daughter  of  Colonel  Josiah 
Berry,  of  Bu.xton,  Me.  Of  this  union  there 
are  three  sons  — James,  Charles,  and  Harry. 
Henry  Usher  Miller  died  May  15,  1897. 

James  Miller,  eldest  son  of  Henry  Usher 
Miller,  was  born  in  Mollis,  Me.,  Aug.  30, 
1855.  His  education  was  acquired  in  the 
public  schools  of  St.  John,  in  Sheffield, 
N.B.,  and  at  the  Sackville  Academy.  Turn- 
ing his  attention  to  the  lumber  busiiiess 
when  a  young  man,  he  went  in  1881  to  Nova 
Scotia,  where  he  conducted  an  extensive  and 
successful  enterpri.se  of  that  kind  for  six- 
teen years,  at  the  expiration  of  which  time 
he  returned  to  St.  John,  where  he  died  No- 
vember 4,  1898.  A  few  months  before  his 
death  he  acquired  extensive  timber  limits  in 
the  Province  of  (Juebec,  embracing  upward  of 
six  hundred  square  miles,  and  had  commenced 
the  erection  of  large  lumber-mills  at  Notre 
Dame  du  Lac,  Teniiscouata  County,  in  that 
Province. 

He  was  married  in   1880  to  Alice  P.  Moore, 
daughter   of    Thomas    B.     Moore,    of    Albert 


County,  New  Brunswick.  Mrs.  Miller  and 
their  two  children  —  .Sarah  IClizabeth  and 
James  Bernard  —  survive  him. 


r?)|  J';NRY    WYSI-:,    a   well-known    citizen 
01    Newcastle,    N.  B.,    who    for   more 
than  twenty  years  has  been  engaged 
in    the    grocery    business    here,    was    born    in 
Chatham,  N.B.,  in  1841.      He  is  a  son  of  the 
late  Henry  Wyse,  of  whom   mention    is  made 
elsewhere  in  this  volume.      The  father  was  a 
prominent  baker,  establishing  one  of  the  first 
bakeries    in    New    Brunswick;    and    the    son 
learned  the  business  in  boyhood,  giving  it  his 
careful    attention    and    obtaining   a   thorough 
knowledge  of  all   its  details.     His  house  has 
always  sustained  a  high  reputation  for  the  excel- 
lent cpiality  of   its  products  and  for  promptness 
in  filling  all  orders.     Mr.  Wyse  remained  with 
his  father  until  about  fifteen  years  before  his 
father's  death.     At  the  present  time  he  has 
a  connection  with  the  business  formerly  con- 
ducted by  his  father. 

In  1865  Mr.  Wyse  went  abroad,  and  trav- 
elled for  two  years  in  India  and  in  various 
luuopean  countries.  In  1874  he  started  his 
present  business  at  Newcastle,  and  since  then 
has  met  with  success,  which  he  has  fully 
merited.  He  is  popular  both  with  his  cus- 
tomers and  his  employees. 

Mr.  Wyse  was  married  in  1866  to  Marianne 
Nicholson,  eldest  daughter  of  the  late  Robert 
Nicholson.  She  bore  him  three  children,  two 
of  whom  are  living — Henry  and  Robert  N. 
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Robert  is  a  dry-goods  mercbant  of  Newcastle. 
Mrs.  Marianne  Wyse  died  in  i.Sys;  and  two 
years  later  Mr.  Wyse  married  Mniily,  daiij;hter 
of  the  late  William  McMasters.  Her  father 
was  born  in  Hay  dii  Vin,  N.  H. ,  and  was  a  son 
of  William  McMasters,  Sr. ,  who  came  from 
the  north  of  Ireland  abonl  the  year  nSjS. 

In  1S79  Mr.  Wyse  was  ajipointed  Maf^istrate. 
For  a  quarter  of  ,■•.  century  he  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  (Triler  of  Oranfjemen,  and  for  the 
last  thiiteen  )ears  he  has  been  ciniiiectcd  with 
the  Salvation  Army.  He  believes  thoroughly 
in  the  great  work  being  done  by  that  zealous 
body  of  Christian  workers,  and  has  been  influ- 
ential in  helping  it  forward  in  this  section  of 
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AVID  II.  NA.SK,  a  well-known  mer- 
chant of  Indiantown,  St.  John,  his 
native  place,  was  born  T'ebrnary  3, 
i84cS,  son  of  I'll  i  lip  and  I'^lizabetb  Mary 
(Ilamm)  Nase.  He  is  a  descendant  on  the 
liaternal  side  of  Henry  Nase,  a  German,  who 
settled  in  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  in 
1728;  and  his  great-grandfather  was  Colonel 
Henry  Nase,  a  Loyalist,  who  came  to  New 
Brunswick  immediately  after  the  American 
Revolution.  His  maternal  grandfather  was 
David  Hamm,  of  Westfield,  N.B. ,  where  the 
homestead  of  the  paternal  ancestors  is  located. 
A  more  extended  account  of  the  family  will  be 
finmd  in  a  sketch  of  I'liilip  Nase,  which  ap- 
pears elsewhere  in  the  Rr.viiav. 

David  H.  Nase  completed  his  education  in 


the  St.  John  C/ranmiar  .ScIiodI.  His  business 
training  was  begun  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  when 
he  entered  a  grocery  store;  and  he  was  later  in 
business  with  his  father.  I""or  five  years  he 
conducted  a  line  of  horse-cars,  which  he  leased 
from  the  People's  Street  Railroad  Comjiany; 
but  he  abandoned  that  enterprise  prior  to  his 
father's  death,  in  order  to  become  a  member  of 
the  fnin  of  P.  Nase  &  .Son,  and  was  associated 
with  his  brother,  Leonard  T. ,  for  several  years. 
Withdrawing  from  that  firm  in  1.S95,  he  estab- 
lished himself  in  general  mercantile  business 
on  Main  .Street,  a  short  distance  from  the  old 
stand,  and  iias  built  up  a  jirofitable  trade.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Connnon  Council  for  three 
years,  during  which  time  the  cities  of  Portland 
and  .St.  John  were  united;  and,  having  been 
appointed  to  the  -School  Hoard  while  a  Council- 
man, he  is  .still  serving  in  that  body.  Politi- 
cally be  is  a  Liberal. 

On  December  2,  1868,  Mr.  Nase  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Henrietta  A.  Parnhill,  daugh- 
ter of  Alexander  Harnhill,  of  Pleasant  Point, 
Lancaster,  N.  U. ,  and  formerly  of  Nova  Scotia. 
Of  this  union  there  are  two  children  living: 
Henry  Hrunswick,  born  October  9,  1869,  wiio 
married  Minnie  Hooper  Heverly,  ilaughter  of 
P'ulton  heverly;  and  Minnie  Gib.son,  born 
October  13,  1876,  who  is  now  the  wife  of 
M.  II.  J.  P'leming,  of  the  Phn.ni.\  P'oundry. 
Henry  Brunswick  Nase  is  a  successful  dentist 
of   St.  John. 

Mr.  Nase  is  a  member  of  the  Chiu'ch  <if 
Lngland  and  ])roniinently  identified  with  St. 
Luke's  Chiu'ch,  of  which,  as  his  father  was,  he 
is  a  vestryman. 


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Diocese  of  St.  John,  ^''liose  ecclesiastical  career 
has  covered  a  period  of  more  than  fifty  years, 
was  born  in  St.  John,  March  4,  1.S23.  Mis 
parents  came  from  the  north  of  Ireland  in 
1818,  and  first  settled  in  St.  John.  His 
father,  James  Connolly,  who  was  a  mason  and 
contractor,  siieedily  took  a  jironiinent  i)ositi(in 
in  the  Catholic  connrejjation  of  tiie  city.  He 
was  elected  church  warden,  or,  as  it  was  then 
termed,  committeeman,  and  contrihuted  mate- 
rially, both  by  advice  and  money,  to  tiio  erec- 
tion of  St.  Malachi's  Ciunch.  In  1826  the 
family  moved  to  l-'rudericton  ;  and  tlicic  yomif; 
Thoma.s  Connolly  received  his  piimary  educa- 
tion at  the  l-'redcricton  (irammar  School,  and 
wa.s  classmate  with  youths  who,  like  himself, 
but  in  other  callings,  helped  in  after  years  to 
make  history  in  New  IJrunswick.  (iraduating 
from  that  school  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  he 
was  sent  to  the  onl)'  Catholic  educational  es- 
tablishment in  the  Maritime  I'ro\inces,  St. 
Andrew's  C(dlef;e,  in  the  vicinity  of  Charlotte- 
town,  r.I'].  I.  Haviiifr  completed  his  classical 
course  at  St.  Andrew's,  he  was  next  sent  in 
1844  to  Ouel>ec,  to  be).;in  his  trainini;  for  the 
[iriesthood.  There,  too,  as  elsewhere,  he  had 
for  colle{;c  mates  and  teachers  men  whose 
names  now  illustrate  the  ci\il  and  ecclesiasti- 
cal history  of  Canada. 

Upon  the  completion  of  the  clerical  studies 
he  was  ordained  priest  in  St.  Michael's  Church, 
Chatham,  in  July,  1848,  by  the  Right  Rev. 
William  Dollard,  first  Hishop  of  New  Hruns- 
wick,  assisted  by  the  Rev.  Josepii  Pacquet,  the 


Rev.  Michael  I'igan,  and  the  Rev.  John 
Sweeney  (afterward  V'icar-gencral  and  still 
later  Hishop  of  St.  John)-  The  ceremony  W'as 
the  first  s(denni  fiuiclion  to  take  place  in  St. 
Michael's;  and  it  may  be  truthfully  said  that, 
of  all  who  were  sub.scqucntly  raised  to  tiie  iioly 
priesthood  within  its  walls,  none  diil  greater 
honor  or  rendered  more  signal  service  to  the 
sanctuary  than  he  who  was  thus  first  or- 
dained. 

After  a  month's  stay  in  Chatham,  where  he 
replaced  I'"ather  Sweeney  during  the  hitter's 
absence,  I'ather  Connolly  went  to  St.  I  ■mis. 
Kent  County,  as  assistant  to  the  Rev.  Jos>.,if) 
I'acquet,  this  being  his  first  official  assignment. 
Here,  under  the  watchful  care  of  one  of  tli 
most  capable  priests  the  province  has  known, 
he  became  acquainted  with  the  system  of 
church  administration  which  obtains  in  French 
parishes.  In  the  fall  of  1848  he  was  trans- 
ferred by  the  bishop  to  the  l''redericton  mis- 
sion, becoming  assistant  to  the  Re\-.  Walter 
Aylward.  Here,  in  the  wide  scope  of  country 
then  administered  to  by  the  priests  of  I-'rederic- 
ton,  he  became  accpiainted  witli  the  conditions 
of  the  Cathtdic  peojjle  as  the)-  existed  under 
the  crude  and  discouraging  conditions  of  pio- 
neer life.  These  inconveniences,  however, 
had  their  formative  and  educational  value  to 
the  young  priest,  and  enabled  his  quick,  admin- 
istrative mind  to  grasp  the  possibility  of  im- 
proved organization  to  meet  pressing  spiritual 
needs.  It  also  demonstrated  to  him  that  a 
generation  stalwart  in  the  faitli  could  jirosper 
even  amid  circumstances  that  weri'  outwardly 
untoward  and  demoralizing. 


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In  September,  i<S49,  I'"athor  Connolly  was 
named  pastor  of  Woodstock,  with  a  district  em- 
bracinj;  from  beyond  Grand  Falls  to  a  point 
tiiirty-five  miles  below  Woodstock  — a  distance 
of  one  hundred  and  ten  miles  alonj^  the  river, 
will'  an  aver>4ge  width  of  twenty  miles,  and 
conta'-  ing  unlimited  ])ossil)ilities  of  hard 
work.  In  the  entire  district  outside  of  the 
towns  there  were  only  seven  frame  houses 
...vned  by  Catholics,  all  the  other  habitations 
of  his  people  being  log  huts,  often  of  the  most 
primitive  description.  The  stint  of  work  that 
lay  before  the  youthful  ])arish  jiriest  was  sue!) 
as  to  call  forth  for  its  t.uccessful  accomplish- 
ment not  only  all  his  energy,  but  discretion 
and  tact  of  the  highest  kind.  The  jieople  were 
poor  and  scattered,  and  labt)ring  unilcr  the  dis- 
couraging blight  i)f  the  religious  dissensions 
which  had  culminated  in  the  riot  of  1847. 
Many  of  those  wh'!  had  taken  i)arl  in  that  de- 
plorable event  had  disa])peaied,  but  the  mem- 
ory of  it  still  ninklcd.  The  young  priest's 
task  was  to  conciliate  and  win  back  men's 
minds  to  one  anotlier,  and  to  restore,  if  possi- 
ble, the  golden  tiays  of  lolc'  mce  and  neigh- 
borly good  will  that  had  existed  in  the  county 
of  Carleton  in  the  early  years  of  its  history. 
Happily,  no  better  choice  could  have  been 
made  for  this  delicate  duty  than  l''ather  Con- 
nolly. Horn  in  the  province,  he  had  no  per 
.sonal  memories  of  trans- Atlantic  feuds  to  cloud 
his  mind  or  mislead  his  judgment.  U])  to  the 
time  of  his  going  to  I'rince  lulward  Island  he 
had  attended  a  school  where  all  religious  de- 
nomin;itions  met  on  eipial  terms.  There  he 
had  formed   friendships  with  boys  who  now,  as 


men,  were  iiiHuential  in  the  affairs  of  Wood- 
stock. They  knew  him,  and  had  no  distrust 
of  his  attitude  toward  themselves.  "There's 
a  new  priest  come  to  town,  and  he  can't  talk 
Irish,"  reported  a  Wakefield  farmer,  on  his  re- 
turn from  Woodstock  to  that  intensely  Protes- 
tant section  now  known  as  Victoria  Corner. 
His  neighbors  would  not  credit  his  story. 
Such  a  marvel  as  a  priest  who  could  not  ad- 
dress his  people  in  Irish  when  he  did  not  want 
outsiders  to  understand  him  was  too  strange  to 
be  credible.  A  delegation  was  at  once  ap- 
pointed to  attend  mass  in  Woodstock  the  fol- 
lowing Sunday,  and  report  to  the  local  Orange 
Lodge.  They  attended,  but  weio  greatly  taken 
aback  to  hear  a  good  sermon  in  hjiglish  on 
"The  Duties  and  Rcs])onsibilities  of  Citizen- 
ship." P'ather  Connolly  pleaded  the  cause  of 
peace  and  Christian  concord  even  more  effcc- 
ti\ely  in  the  |)ubl'-  lecture  which  he  delivered 
about  this  time  from  the  jdatform  of  the  Mc- 
(.lianics'  Institute,  Woodstock.  Invited  later 
by  Colonel  William  Hairil,  chairman  of  the 
lyceum,  Woodstock,  to  deliver  a  lecture  as 
|)art  of  their  winter  course,  the  choice  of  sub- 
ject being  left  to  himself,  he  addresswl  his 
audience  on  "  h'ratornal  Love."  The  subject 
was  unusual  for  a  lecture  platfoini,  but  its 
timeliness  could  not  be  denieil.  Henceforth, 
during  his  stay  in  Woodstock,  father  Connolly 
could,  without  let  or  hindrance,  devote  himself 
to  the  inteicsts  under  his  charge.  Time  and 
the  annealing  power  of  good  neighborshi])  were 
working  for  the  return  of  peace  and  kindly 
feeling  in  the  community. 

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stock  was  tlie  completion  of  a  new  cluircli, 
I""gun  by  Father  Vcreker,  his  predecessor. 
This  necessitated  in  October,  1850,  a  trip  to 
J?oston  to  collect  funds,  as  he  found  that  his 
people,  unaided,  could  not  meet  the  necessary 
expense.  After  a  month's  stay  he  returned 
with  a  sum  sufficient  to  meet  the  most  pressing 
need. 

The  demise  of  J?ishop  Dollard  and  the  in- 
stallation of  a  new  bishop  in  the  person  of  the 
Right  Rev.  Thomas  L.  Connolly  resulted  in 
a  general  shaking-u|)  and  the  transference  of 
l'"alher  Connolly  to  Harachois,  a  French 
parish,  which  then  included  also  the  out- 
lying districts  of  CajK'  Hald,  Cape  Tourmen- 
tine,  and  Aboushagan.  In  both  Cape  Hald 
and  Cape  Tourmenline  churches  were  build- 
ing, and  the  people  were  very  poor.  In  this 
extensive  field  Father  Connolly  labored  for  one 
year.  He  had  scarcely  begun  to  get  well  ac- 
ipiainted  with  his  people,  Frencli  and  Irish, 
when  the  bishop,  in  order  to  meet  the  exigen- 
cies of  religion  on  th.e  south-western  side  of 
the  province,  invited  him  to  take  the  pastoi- 
ship  of  Milltown  and  St.  Stephen,  in  Charlotte 
County.  Thus  ended  for  a  time  bis  ministry 
among  the  Irench. 

After  a  year's  sojourn  at  IMilltown,  where 
he  built  a  school-house,  he  was  transferred  for 
the  .second  time  to  Woodstock.  The  priest 
who  did  not  talk  Irish  was  again  needed  in  that 
storm  centre.  During  the  two  years  of  his 
absence  dissensions  had  arisen  among  the 
Catholics  themselves,  aggravated  by  liie  omi- 
nous altitude  of  outside  bodies.  The  condition 
of    affairs  was  critical   wiien   he  took    charge. 


lie  found  himself,  with  l'"ather  Harron  —  the 
previous  incumbent,  who  had  not  yet  left  — 
and  the  congregation,  shut  out  of  church  on 
Sunday,  the  keys  being  held  by  a  man  who 
had  an  account  against  the  building.  Acting 
on  legal  advice,  he  forced  an  entrance  into  the 
building  during  the  week,  and  was  in  his 
l)lace  in  the  sanctuary  on  the  next  Sunday. 
The  outlook  did  not  dismay  him.  It  was  e.\- 
lierience  not  of  the  pl'asantest  kind,  but  none 
the  less  valuable,  rati^ntly  and  tactfully  lie 
took  up  his  work,  as  best  he  could,  where  be 
had  laid  it  down  two  years  before.  The  labors 
of  the  next  twelve  years  were  of  an  arduous  and 
exacting  nature.  During  this  period  the 
boundaries  of  his  jurisdiction  were  eiilarged  to 
take  in  Aroostook  County,  Maine.  At  five 
jioints  only  in  this  wide  area  of  country  were 
there  Catholic  churches  —  at  Woodstock,  at 
(irand  b'alls,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Tobiciuc,  at 
River  de  Chute,  and  at  Houlton.  Catholics 
there  were  everywhere,  scattered  and  isolated  ; 
and  they  all  had  to  be  i)roviiled  for  spiritually. 
What  journeys,  then,  what  exposure,  what  in- 
cidents of  fatigue  and  discomfort,  must  not  the 
accimiulated  exi)erience  of  these  years  have 
brought  to  l''ather  Coiuiolly  in  that  vast  mis- 
sion !  These  duties,  however,  bniught  with 
them  an  unequalled  influence  with  the  i)eo])le 
for  whom  be  s|)ent  himself.  His  willingness 
to  rough  it  and  to  make  the  best  of  accommo- 
dations as  be  found  them  won  their  admiration. 
Whether  poor  and  struggling  with  adverse  con- 
ditions or  pros])erous,  as  in  their  hitter  years, 
he  ever  ])ro\ed  himself  their  father,  counsellor, 
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their  minds  and  iicarls  incroascd  until  they 
leaned  wholly  upon  his  leadership.  Seven 
priests  do  duty  to-day  in  the  district  to  which 
he  in  those  days  ministered  alone;  but  no  one 
of  them,  however  devoted  and  self-sacrificing, 
can  ever  hojjc  to  wiekl  more  than  a  fraction  of 
his  influence. 

In  such  a  broad  field  of  lalior  tliere  was  need 
of  effective  methods  in  order  to  secure  cohe- 
rence and  permanence  of  results.  Father  Con- 
nolly was  an  organizer.  Slowly  and  carefully 
he  laid  the  foundations  of  a  system  the  ramifi- 
cations of  which  touched  every  detail  of  church 
progress.  In  Woodstock  his  work  focussed  on 
the  completion  of  tlie  new  rlnirch,  which  he 
called  St.  (iertrude's,  and  on  the  establishment 
of  a  parocliial  school,  livery  penny  of  his  in- 
come, except  what  was  alisolutely  needed  for 
his  maintenance,  went  into  the  fund  for  the 
payment  of  the  cluncii  debt;  and  to  increase 
this  fund  he  i)ractised  the  most  exacting  econo- 
mies. To  meet  the  question  of  a  Catholic 
sciiool  Father  Connlly  turned  St.  Malachi's 
Church  into  a  school-house,  and  invited  l^ar- 
tholomew  Lynch,  an  excellent  teacher,  to  take 
charge.  That  was  in  1.S56.  I'his  school  pros- 
jiered  from  the  beginning,  and  in  tiie  same  year 
we  find  It  on  the  list  of  parochial  schools  en- 
titled to  a  grant  from  the  New  Brunswick  gov- 
ernuKMit.  This  grant  of  one  hundred  and  fift) 
dollars  was  obtained  tiin. '<;h  the  kindl\'  ser- 
vices of  .S.  L.  Tilley,  W'ho  was  not  at  that  time 
even  a  member  of  tiie  House.  Tiie  next  work 
of  l''ather  Connolly  was  to  procuie  a  pipe  organ 
for  ,St.  (iertrude's  Chinch.  Tins  he  accom- 
plished by  means  of  a  picnic       known  in  local 


hi.story  as  the  "(Ireat  Picnic" — whicli  was 
held  on  Hull's  Island,  opposite  Woodstock, 
in  August,  1857,  and  was  i)erhai)s,  in  jioint  of 
attendance  and  of  net  receipts  (seventeen  hun- 
dred dollars),  the  greatest  of  its  kind  ever  held 
in  the  jirovince. 

Subsecpiently,  under  Hishop  Sweeney,  the 
successor  of  Hishop  Connolly,  Father  Connolly 
found  a  new  and  untried  field  of  labor  in  the 
active  founding  of  a  Catholic  colony  on  the 
east  side  of  the  St.  John  River,  north  of  Wood- 
stock ;  and  it  was  largely  due  to  his  untiring 
energy,  ui. sparing  self-sacrifice,  good  judgment, 
and  ])ractical  knowledge  of  pioneer  life,  that 
the  scheme  was  a  success.  In  honor  of  the 
|)atron  of  the  new  settlement,  Hishop  John 
Sweeney,  he  called  it  Johnville.  The  first 
mass  was  held  in  the  open  air,  and  was  an  oc- 
casion never  to  be  forgotten.  Perha|is  only  in 
the  earliest  days  of  Acadia  liad  tiie  holy  sacri- 
fice been  offered  amid  sucli  picturescpie  sur- 
roundings. Contemporaneously  with  the  build- 
ing of  a  church  in  Johnville  P'ather  Connolly 
also  erected  churches  in  Williamstown,  South 
Richmond,  and  Cauterinu)-.  He  was  his  own 
architect,  and  made  out  himself  the  s|)ecifica- 
tions  for  the  different  buildings.  These  years 
in  the  sixties  were  liiled  with  labors  tiiat  dif- 
ercd  much  from  the  ordinary  activities  of  a 
priest.  Tlie  experience  tliat  lay  behind  him 
when  he  had  com])leted  tiie  twentieth  yeur  of 
his  ministry  could  be  duplicated  at  that  time 
by  no  otlicr  jiriest  in  New  Ihunswick.  No 
otlicr  had  worked  amid  conditions  so  varied,  or 
met  difficullics  of  the  most  exasperating  kind 
with  the  same  mc.isure  of  success. 


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The  constant  mill-round  of  exposure,  fast- 
ing, anil  hardship  had  weakened  his  health. 
When,  therefore,  Hishop  Sweeney,  in  the 
s|)rin<f  of  1868,  invited  him  to  take  the  rector- 
ship of  the  Cathedral  in  St.  John,  where  life 
would  be  rej^ular  and  there  would  be  no  out- 
side work  for  him  to  do,  he  accepted  the  invi- 
tation. In  October,  1868,  Uishop  .Sweeney 
ajjpointed  Father  Connolly  Vicar-general  of 
the  Diocese  of  St.  John,  a  graceful  acknowl- 
edgment not  only  of  the  merit  <  •■"  his  services, 
but  of  the  loyalty  of  tried  friendship.  Hence- 
forth, as  adviser  to  the  bisliop,  he  had  a  voice 
in  the  direction  of  affairs.  During  his  ir.cum- 
bency  at  the  Cathedral  he  organized  certain 
departments  of  parish  administration,  was  for 
a  time  cliaplain  to  the  Hritish  .stddiers  sta- 
tioned in  the  city,  chaplain  to  the  penitentiary, 
and  founder  of  the  Fatlier  Mathcw  Total  Ab- 
stinence Society. 

Not  finding  his  health  improve  as  rapidly  in 
St.  John  as  he  had  reason  to  cxjiect,  perhaps 
owing  to  the  unaccustomed  confinement  of  his 
new  position,  I'"atiier  Connolly  accepted  the 
first  ojiiiortunily  of  leaving  the  city,  and  in 
April  became  pastor  of  the  large  and  flourish- 
ing parisii  of  (Jrand  Digue,  in  Kent  County. 
Thus,  after  an  inter\al  of  twenty  years,  he  was 
again  hack  among  the  I-'rench  jieople.  Amid 
tlie  restful  conditions  of  life  in  a  I-'rcnch 
liarish  he  gratlually  recovered  his  strength. 
In  the  fall  of  187^  the  evigencies  of  religion 
again  demanded  liis  ])resence  at  Woodstock, 
and  he  returned  to  the  first  arena  of  iiis  strug- 
gles. I.ife  was  now  easier  in  tlie  Woodstock 
mission,   yet    I-'atiier  Conudll)'   found  employ- 


ment for  bis  activities.  In  1875  his  labors 
were  further  eased  by  tiie  appointment  of  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Walsh  as  assistant  to  him. 
Father  Walsh,  whose  early  ilealh  in  1879  was 
much  regrettetl,  was  the  first  of  a  long  line  of 
young  priests  whom  Father  Conimlly  had  asso- 
ciated with  him  in  parish  work. 

The  death  of  the  Rev.  lulward  Dunpliy,  in 
September,  1876,  left  the  Parish  of  the  As- 
sumiition,  in  Carleton,  St.  John,  vacant. 
J"'ather  Connolly  receivetl  the  ajjpointment,  and 
in  November  of  that  year  severed  forever  his 
connection  as  pastor  with  Woodstock  and  its 
missions.  Henceforth  bis  life  was  to  move 
along  the  lines  of  least  resistance.  He  found 
his  new  parish  thoroughl)  organized.  A  resi- 
dence of  comfortable  i)roportions;  good  schools 
housed  in  a  capacious  school  building,  with 
large  hall  and  reading-rooms  overliead  ;  a  flour- 
ishing temperance  society;  a  churcli  edifice 
with  perhaps  as  handsome  and  artistic  interior 
as  was  to  be  found  in  the  Maritime  Provinces 
—  all  this  Fatlier  Dunphy  had  left  to  his  suc- 
cessor, besides,  the  ileceased  jjriesl  bad  pro- 
vided in  bis  will  finuis  fir  tlie  erection  of  a 
church  for  the  use  of  Catholics  of  h'airville, 
Milford,  and  vicinity,  and  liad  devised  a  proi)- 
eity  as  a  free  cemelerv  on  the  bay  shore. 
l"'ather  Connoll)'  at  once  devoted  himself  to 
carrying  out  the  will  of  ills  predecessor.  The 
beautiful,  but  strong  and  conimotlious,  clninb 
at  r'airville,  built  according  to  his  own  ideas 
of  church  architecture,  is  a  monumint  to  his 
taste  and  judgment.  He  also  added  a  priest's 
residence.  In  1879  l'"alliei-  ("oiiiKdly  was 
elected  president  of  the   New  lliunswick    lUtal 


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Abstinence  Union,  at  d  in  the  summer  of  that 
year  he  presided  over  their  annual  conven- 
tion. 

In  the  spring  of  1889  Hisliop  Sweeney 
erected  a  new  parish  within  the  city  of  St. 
Jolin,  with  the  Church  of  St.  John  the  Baptist 
as  parish  churcli,  and  invited  Father  Connolly 
to  the  rectorship.  The  Vicar-general  accepted, 
and  on  May  16  of  that  year  formally  took  pos- 
session of  his  new  charge.  This  was  in  some 
respects  a  return  to  conditions  akin  to  those  he 
had  to  encounter  in  the  early  years  of  his 
priesthood.  There  was  a  considerable  debt  on 
the  church  in  Lower  Cove,  which  was  still  un- 
finished. Th  ;  new  parish  was  lacking  in  or- 
ganization, and  there  was  no  parochial  resi- 
dence for  the  clergy.  With  th.e  energy  of  his 
younger  days  Father  Connolly  at  once  began 
the  erection  of  a  brick  residence  of  three 
stories  close  to  the  church  on  Broad  Street. 
He  held  fairs  and  bazaars,  and  organized  church 
subscriptions  for  the  liquidation  of  the  parish 
indebtedness.  He  had  the  interior  of  the 
sacred  edifice  painted  and  decorated  at  his  own 
private  expense ;  and  he  furnished  the  sanctu- 
ary with  statues,  linens,  vestments,  flowers, 
and  the  other  appurtenances  of  worship.  In 
the  midst  of  these  activities  he  was  honored  by 
the  Holy  See.  In  May,  1890,  letters  came 
from  Rome  constituting  him  a  member  of  the 
])apal  household,  with  the  official  rank  and  title 
of  Monsignor;  and  on  the  fifteenth  of  the 
month  he  was  formally  invested  with  the  dress 
and  insignia  of  his  new  dignity  by  his  Lord- 
ship, Bishop  Sweeney.  In  the  work  of  mould- 
ing his  new  i)arish  into  shape  and    in  the  ordi- 


nary duties  of  the  parish  he  was  assisted  in 
succession  by  the  Rev.  Desire  Legere,  the  Rev. 
Edward  Savage,  the  Rev.  Louis  LcBlanc,  and 
the  late  lamented  Fatlier  Corbett.  His  pres- 
ent assistant,  the  Rev.  W.  C.  Gaynor,  has  been 
with  him  .'■Mice  February,  1896. 

Father  Connolly's  interest  in  the  welfare  of 
his  congregation  is  evidenced  by  the  purchase 
of  a  pipe  organ  for  the  church  in  May,  1898. 
This  organ  was  opened  at  the  solemn  high 
mass  of  his  jubilee  day,  Sunday,  July  10, 
1898  ;  and  its  tones  were  first  heard  in  the  "Te 
Ueum  "  of  thanksgiving  for  his  fifty  years  of 
priesthood.  This  anniver.sary  celebration  was 
the  occasion  of  much  rejoicing  among  Catho- 
lics, and  Monsignor  Connolly  was  the  recipient 
of  many  heartfelt  congratulations  from  both 
near  and  absent  friends.  In  the  morning  a 
solemn  high  mass  was  held  in  St.  John  the 
Baptist  Church  at  eleven  o'clock.  The  edifice 
was  crowded,  and  the  services  of  an  impressive 
character.  The  sermon,  preached  by  the  Rev. 
H.  A.  Meahan,  of  Moncton,  was  from  the  text, 
"And  I  will  give  you  pastors  according  to  my 
own  heart,  and  they  shall  feed  you  with  knowl- 
edge and  doctrine"  (Jeremiah  iii.  15).  In 
the  afternoon  the  Catholic  societies  marched 
in  procession  to  the  church,  where  appropriate 
services  were  held,  and  letters  of  congratula- 
tion read,  among  them  one  from  the  congrega- 
tion of  St.  John  tiie  Baptist  Church,  accom- 
]wnied  by  a  gift  of  a  floral  basket  containing 
si.\  hundred  dollars  in  gold.  In  the  evening 
about  one  hundred  ladies  and  gentlemen  gath- 
ered at  the  Monsignor's  residence,  on  invitation 
of  the  Ladies'  Au.xiliary  .Society,  to  attend  at 


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the  prtsentation  to  the  Monsi{,Mior  of  a  por- 
trait of  himself,  painted  for  the  ladies  of  the 
congregation  by  Mr.  F.  II.  C.  Mile.s.  And 
thus  happily  clo.sed  a  loiig-to-be-rcmembered 


clay 

There  i.s  little  more  to  add  to  this  outline  of 
Father  Connolly's  labor.s.      He  is  still  the  hon- 
ored pastor  of  St.    John  the   Baptist   Church, 
ever   active,    zealou.s,    energetic,   the  exemplar 
and  model  of  a  priestly  life.      Age  has  indeed 
settled  down  upon  him,  but  with   that  gentle 
unobtrusivene.ss    with    which    it   takes    toll    of 
some  men.      "It  is  indeed  witii  him   the  even- 
tide of  life:  it  is  also  the  quiet  and  glory  of 
the  sunset.      The  years  of  his  harvesting  are 
now  upon   him,  and   the  harvest   is  abundant. 
Fach  year  of  the  half-century  of  his  ministry 
had  its  own  measure  of  care,  of  labor,  of  an.\- 
ious    solicitude  for   the   holy  cause  which   he 
espoused  on   that  July  morning   in    1S4.S;  ])ut 
in  the  perspective  of  the  years,  as  ho  regards 
them    from   the  vantage-ground  (,f  his  golden 
jubilee  in  1898,  all  sen.se  of  toil,  of  privation, 
of  .sacrifice,  is  lost   in  the  joy  of  faithful   and 
continuous  .stewardship. " 

The  above  .sketch  is  taken  largely  (being 
coi)ied  in  part)  from  a  biographical  sketch  of 
the  Very  Rev.  Monsignor  Thomas  Connolly^ 
Vicar-general,  entitled  "Fifty  Years  a  I'riest,'' 
"and  dedicated  to  him  on  the  occasion  of  his 
sacerdotal  jubilee  by  the  priests  of  the  diocese 
who  have  had  the  privilege  of  serving  under 
him  as  assistants,"  It  has  necessarily  been 
much  contracted  to  adapt  it  for  pub'ication  in 
this  volume. 


AMF.S    I-.    CONNORS.    Police    Magis- 
trate and  a  well-known  and  respected 
citizen  of  Chatham,  was  born    in  that 
town    in    1S57.      His    father,    Mo.ses    Connors, 
was  a  native  of   Ireland,  whence  he  emigrated 
to  New  Hrunswick  about  1835.     Mr.  James  F. 
Connors's    brother,    the   late    VV.   T.  Connors, 
was  one  of  Chatham's  most  popular  citizens, 
and    occupied    many    jiositions    of    honor   and 
trust,   among  others    that    of  Town    Clerk,   of 
which   he   was  the   first    incumbent.      He   was 
al.so  for  over  twenty  years   a   member  of  the 
■staff  of  Her  Majesty's  customs.      Three  of  Mr. 
Connors's   sisters   occujiy   prominent    positions 
in    religious    orders    of    the    R.,man    Catholic 
Church,  to  which  the  family  belongs,  the  eld- 
est   sister.    Mother    M.    Cleophas,    being    now 
stationed  in  l^ermuda,  and  the  other  two  being 
cloistered  nuns  of  the  Hotel  Dieu,  Chatham. 

James  V.  Connors  received  a  good  education, 
attending  as  a  day  scholar  St.  Michael's  Col- 
lege, Chatham,  afterward  comi)leting  a  course 
at  St.  Joseiih's  University  (then  a  college)  at 
Mcmramcook,    and  at   a   later  period  studying 
law  for  two  years  in  the  office  of  R.  R.  Adams, 
Ivsq.,  also  attending  the  Dalhousie  Law  School 
at  Halifa.v,  N.  S.      Subsequently  he  was  clerk 
to  the  Hon.  Judge  Wilkin.son,  Revising  Officer 
under  the   Dominion    iM-anchise  Act   until    its 
repeal.      In  1893  he  was  elected,  without  oppo- 
sition, Counsellor  for  the  parish  of  Chatham, 
and    in    1897  he    was    re-elected   to   the   .same 
office.      At  the  January  session  of    1898  he  was 
elected   unanimously  Warden   of  the  county  of 
Northumberland,  and   in  January,    1898,  Town 
Clerk  of  the  town   of  Challiam,  which   positi(ui 


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he  resignctl  in  April  of  tiic  same  year.  He 
was  appointed  to  his  present  position  as  rdice 
Magistrate  of  the  town  of  Cliathani  April  6, 
i8g8,  being  the  first  I'olice  IMagistrate  ap- 
pointed under  the  'I'owns  Incorporaticin  Aet  of 
1896.  ]lis  appointment  was  generally  up- 
proved  of  by  the  people  of  town  and  county, 
among  whom  he  is  very  popular. 

Mr.  Connors  married  in  i8gi  Louisa  I., 
daughter  of  Charles  Duffy,  I'^sq. ,  of  l''rederii- 
ton,  N.R 


'rank  II.    FLEWKLLING,  of  the  firm 

of    Slipp  &   l'"lewelling,    pork-jjackers, 

St.  John,  was  horn  in  (ireenwiL-h,  Kings 
County,  K.B.,  April  15,  1S52,  .son  of  John 
and  Ann  (IJelyea)  Flewelling.  His  father  was 
born  in  the  same  place  in  1814;  and  his  grand- 
father, Caleb  Flewelling,  a  Loyalist,  came  to 
New  Jhi-nswick  in  1783.  Caleb  l'"lewelling 
settled  in  Greenwich,  where  for  the  rest  of  his 
active  life  he  ojierated  a  grist  and  sawmill  and 
also  carried  on  a  farm.  lie  married  a  Miss 
Uritton,  who  belonged  to  a  family  of  Loyalists. 
He  lived  to  be  eighty-two  years  f)ld,  and  his 
wife  attained  about  the  same  age.  'I'hey  had 
a  family  of  four  sons  and  eight  daughters. 

John  Flewelling,  F'rank  H.  Flewelling's 
father,  was  a  [irosjierous  farmer  and  a  highly 
esteemed  resident  of  Greenwich.  He  took  a 
lively  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the  commu- 
nity, and  for  a  number  of  years  was  a  warden 
of  the  Anglican  Church.  His  wife,  Ann,  was 
a  daughter  of  Joscjih  Helyca.  Her  ;uicestors, 
who  were  loyal  to  the   crcjwii  dui  ing  the  Anier- 


ican  lievolution,  came  to  this  Province  after 
the  close  of  the  war.  She  became  the  mother 
of  si.\  children,  namely:  Susan;  Albert  G.  ; 
I'" rank  H.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  l-'reiler- 
ick  L.  ;  Walker  1?.  ;  and  Gertrude.  .Susan, 
who  became  the  wife  of  Caleb  P'lcwelling, 
second,  died  in  18C5.  Albert  G.  is  residing 
on  the  home  farm.  Frederick  L.  was  a  mer- 
chant in  Indiantown,  from  1877  to  1897. 
Walker  ]?.  l-'lewelling  is  a  member  of  the 
mechanical  staff  of  the  Hoston  Herald.  Ger- 
trude i?  the  wife  of  James  Gault  of  Indian- 
town.  John  F'lewelling  died  in  1878,  aged 
sixty-four;  and  Mrs.  Ann  Flewelling  died  in 
the  fall  of  1S93,  at  the  age  of  seventy-three 
years. 

Having  completed  his  education  at  the 
Gagetown  Grammar  .School  at  the  age  of  six- 
teen, F'rank  IL  Flewelling  came  to  St.  John 
and  began  his  training  as  a  clerk  in  George 
Robertson's  grocery  store.  I^stablishing  him- 
self in  the  same  line  of  trade  at  Indiantown  in 
1874,  he  conducted  a  successful  business  there 
for  over  ten  )ears,  or  until  1885,  when  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  Mr.  L.  W.  Slipp 
under  the  firm  name  of  .Slipp  &  l-'lewelling. 
This  concern  is  now  carrying  on  the  largest 
pork-packing  business  in  the  Maritime  Prov- 
inces. 

On  December  9,  1873,  Mr.  hlewelling  was 
joined  in  marriage  with  Gertrude  Reynolds, 
who  also  is  a  representative  of  a  loyal  family, 
being  a  daughter  of  William  Reynolds,  of  St. 
John,  N.R 

Mr.  l-'lewelling  is  a  Master  Mason,  and  be- 
longs to  Hibernian  Lodge  of  this  C\\\. 


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"AMICS  S.  C.Il.maiT,  merchant  and 
shipowner,  St.  Jnhn,  was  born  in  that 
city  in  1.S22,  son  of  Henry  and  I-Iliza 
(Simonils)  (lilbert.  His  father  was  a  fjrand- 
son  of  Colonel  Thomas  Gilbert,  a  Loyalist, 
who  came  to  New  Uninswick  from  Massachu- 
setts in  1783,  and  who  was  a  descendant  of 
Ciovernor  Uradford,  of  the  I'lymonth  Colony. 
Bradford  Cilbert,  son  of  Colonel  Thonias  and 
father  of  Henry,  who  succeeded  him  in  mer- 
cantile business,  was  an  early  settler  in  St. 
John.  [Further  jiarliculars  concerninj;;  the 
ancestry  of  the  family  will  be  found  in 
sketches  of  George  Godfrey  Gilbert,  Q.  C,  and 
of  Thomas  Gilbert,  which  appear  elsewhere  in 
the  Rkvikw.  1 

James  S.  Gilbert  be^an  his  education  in  the 
schools  of  St.  John,  and  completed  it  under 
the  direction  of  a  private  tutor.  At  the  aj^e  of 
seventeen  he  commenced  his  business  life  as 
a  clerk  in  his  father's  store;  and  in  1S47  he, 
in  company  with  his  biothers,  Bradford,  Henry, 
and  Thcmias,  succeeded  to  the  business  under 
the  firm  name  of  Gilbert  &  Co.  That  concern 
transacted  an  extensive  business  as  merchants, 
siiip-builders,  and  ship-owners.  The  elder 
brothers  retired  one  by  one,  until  James  S. 
was  sole  representative  of  the  firm;  and  he  is 
now  proprietor  of  one  of  the  oldest  establish- 
ments of  its  kind  in  the  city. 


fffiY^^^l'-I'IJ  I'-  15LACK,  a  prominent  and 
highly  esteemed  citizen  of  Sackville, 
N.H.,  is  one  of  the  largest  landholders 

of  the  town  and  an  important  factor  in  the  de- 


velopment of  its  industrial  interests.  He  was 
born  January  12,  1829,  at  Amherst,  N.S.,  son 
of  Josiah  and  Hannah  (Embree)  Black.  He 
is  a  representative  of  the  fourth  generation  of 
his  family  in  America. 

His  great-grandfather,  Captain  William 
Black,  was  born  in  Paisley,  Scotland,  in 
1737.  In  1774  Captain  Black  emigrated  with 
his  wife  and  children  to  Nova  Scotia,  and  for 
a  short  time  lived  in  Halifax.  He  was  a 
man  of  considerable  wealth,  and  arrived  in 
unusual  style  for  a  colony,  bringing  with 
him  his  private  physician,  a  number  of  ser- 
vants, hounds,  horses,  and  so  forth.  Going 
from  Halifax  to  Amherst,  N.S. ,  he  purchased 
a  large  tract  of  land,  on  which  he  lived  until 
his  removal  to  Dorchester,  N.B. ,  where  he 
spent  his  closing  days,  dying  at  the  age  of 
ninety-three  years,  in  1820.  In  his  early 
manhood  he  married  in  England  Elizabeth 
Stocks,  who,  with  their  little  family  of  four 
sons  and  one  daughter,  came  with  him  to 
Nova  Scotia.  As  she  was  stepping  on  the 
vessel  which  was  to  bear  them  across  the 
ocean,  she  unfortunately  met  with  a  serious 
accident,  which  caused  her  death  two  years 
later.  One  of  the  older  sons,  the  Rev.  Will- 
iam Black,  was  the  founder  of  Methodism  in 
the  maritime  provinces,  and  was  the  founder 
of  the  branch  of  the  Black  family  now  living 
in  Halifax.  The  youngest  son,  Thomas  S. , 
became  the  grandfather  of  Joseph  L.  Black, 
the  special  subject  of  this  sketch.  After  the 
death  of  his  first  wife  Captain  Black  married 
Elizabeth  Abber,  of  Amherst,  N.  S.,  by  whom 
he  had  seven  children. 


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Thomas  S.  Black  was  born  in  luigland,  and 
came  with  his  parents  to  Halifax,  N. S.,  in 
1774.  In  1804  he  bought  five  hundred  and 
forty  acres  of  land  in  Amherst,  N.  S.,  where 
he  subsequently  carried  on  general  farming 
until  his  death,  in  1850,  at  the  advanced  age 
of  eighty-four  years.  A  man  of  higli  moral 
character,  he  was  an  influential  citizen  and 
an  active  worker  in  religious  circles.  In  his 
early  life  he  was  identified  with  the  Meth- 
odists, but  later  he  became  a  leader  in  the 
Baptist  denomination,  and  not  only  served  as 
Deacon  of  the  Baptist  church  in  Amherst,  but 
frequently  filled  the  pulpit  most  acceptably. 
He  married  Mary  Freeze,  who  came  with  her 
parents  from  England  to  Sussex,  Kings 
County,  N.B. ,  where  they  were  among  the 
original  settlers.  Thomas  S.  and  Mary  F. 
Black  reared  seven  sons  and  five  daughters. 
Alexander  B.  Black  is  the  only  one  of  these 
children  now  living.  He  married  Caroline, 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  William  Croscomb,  of 
Amherst,  N.S.,  and  they  have  six  children  — 
William  A.,  Albert  S.,  Frederick,  Frank  H., 
Charles  H.,  and  Frnest  L.  The  four  cider 
sons  are  residents  of  the  Western  States, 
where  three  of  thv'ni  are  active  ministers  of 
the  Methodist  persuasion,  while  Frank  H.  is 
a  successful  farmer. 

Josiah  Black,  son  of  Thomas  S.,  was  born 
in  Amherst,  N.S.,  where  he  spent  his  long 
and  busy  life  of  ninety-two  years  and  some 
months,  an  honored  and  respected  citizen. 
Shortly  after  attaining  man's  estate  he  settled 
on  a  portion  of  the  old  homestead  property 
which    his    father   gave   him,   and    he    subse- 


quently added  to  the  acreage  of  his  farm  by 
the  purchase  of  adjoining  land.  There  he  was 
successfully  engaged  in  the  prosecution  of  his 
chosen  calling  during  his  days  of  activity,  and 
was  one  of  the  model  farmers  of  the  neighbor- 
hood in  which  he  resided.  His  first  wife, 
Hannah  Embree,  daughter  of  Elisha  Embree, 
of  Amherst,  bore  him  five  sons  and  f  ur 
daughters.  I'our  of  these  children  are  now 
living,  namely:  Joseph  L. ;  Mary  E. ;  Ann, 
who  marrieil  John  Bent,  a  farmer  of  Amherst, 
N.S. ;  and  Thomas  R.  The  latter  married 
Eunice,  daughter  of  W.  W.  Bent,  late  of 
Amherst,  N.  S. ,  and  is  the  father  of  three  chil- 
dren, namely:  William  W.,  who  married 
Annie  Jenks,  of  I'arrsboro,  N.  S.,  and  has  four 
children;  Charles  C,  who  married  Annie 
Christie,  of  Amherst;  and  Myra,  wife  of  the 
Rev.  Ralph  Trotter,  of  Victoria,  B.C.  Mrs. 
Hannah  Embree  Black  died  in  1842,  aged 
forty  years,  and  her  widowed  husband  after- 
ward married  Miss  McCully,  daughter  of  the 
late  Rev.  Samuel  McCully,  a  Baptist  minister 
of  Amherst,  and  a  sister  of  Judge  Jonathan 
McCully,  of  Nova  Scotia.  Of  the  two  chil- 
dren born  of  this  union  one  child  is  living, 
Samuel  McCully  Black,  of  .St.  John,  N.B., 
editor  of  the  Ihif-tist  Visitor.  He  married 
Eva,  daughter  of  the  late  Mr.  Rogers,  of 
Amherst,  N.  S. ,  and  has  two  children  — 
Horace  and  Margaret. 

Joseph  L.  Black  obtained  his  elementary 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Amherst, 
N.S. ,  after  whicii  he  cook  a  course  of  study  at 
Mount  Allison  Academy  in  Sackville,  N.B. 
Returning  then  to  the  parental  homestead,  he 


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939 


worked  on  the  farm  until  attaining  his  major- 
ity. In  1852  he  engaged  in  mercantile  busi- 
ness in  Sackville,  which  he  has  exlenilcd  ami 
which  now  embraces  nearly  all  lines  of  mer- 
chandise, botli  wholesale  and  retail,  and  in 
volume  of  yearly  turn-over  ecjuals  the  largest 
in  his  county.  He  has  continucil  his  resi- 
dence at  Sackville,  and  by  his  energetic  ability 
has  become  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the 
place,  lie  has  acquired  a  large  area  of  the 
most  valuable  marsh  and  high  lands,  and  is  at 
present  also  carrying  on  general  farming  and 
lumber  manufacturing  and  dealing,  llis  tim- 
ber lands,  in  the  northern  part  of  Westmor- 
land County,  are  above  twenty  thousand  acres 
in  extent.  He  also  owns  and  operates  lumber 
and  flour  mills.  He  makes  a  specialty  of 
raising  hay,  cutting  oftentimes  as  many  as 
six  hundred  tons  in  a  season. 

Progressive  and  enterprising,  Mr.  Black  has 
been  identified  with  the  establishment  of 
many  industries  that  have  proved  of  value  to 
the  town,  and  has  always  taken  a  genuine  in- 
terest in  its  political,  social,  and  educational 
welfare.  As  a  Liberal  Conservative  he  rep- 
resentetl  Westmorland  County  in  the  Provin- 
cial House  two  terms,  and  is  Justice  of  the 
Peace;  but,  finding  the  vexations  and  annoy- 
ances in  Representative  capacity  a  hinderance 
to  freedom  in  business  life,  he  declined  longer 
to  continue  therein.  He  is  chairman  of  the 
Executive  Committee  of  Hoartl  of  Regents  of 
Mount  Allison  University  of  Sackville.  He 
is  very  active  in  religious  matters,  and  is  a 
trustee  of  the  Methodist  church,  which  lie  and 
his  family  attend. 


In  1857  Mr.  Hlack  married  Jane  Humphrey, 
a  sister  of  the  late  Joiin  A.  Humphrey,  of 
Moncton,  N.H.  She  died  at  the  early  age  of 
twenty-six  years,  leaving  one  child,  Minnie, 
who  is  the  wife  of  lulmunil  Hurke,  of  Toronto, 
and  has  three  children — Cathleenc,  Helen, 
and  Nora.  Mr.  Black  subsetiuently  married 
Mary  Snowball,  sister  of  Senator  Snowball,  of 
Miramichi,  N.  B.,  and  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
John  Snowball,  at  that  time  of  Sackville. 
The  four  children  born  of  the  second  marriage 
are:  Hattie  S. ,  wife  of  B.  1'].  Patterson,  edi- 
tor of  the  Amherst  /'nss ;  Jennie;  l'"rank  B., 
a  Captain  in  the  Volunteer  Cavalry,  Eighth 
Hussars;  and  John  W.  S. ,  a  Lieutenant  in 
the  same  company. 


M 


AVID  O'CONNELL  is  a  well-known 
business  man  of  St.  John,  N.  B. , 
where  he  was  born  in  December, 
1850.  His  iiarents,  Thomas  and  Annie  (Rear- 
don)  O'Connell,  came  to  this  country  in  1840, 
and  settled  in  St.  Jolm. 

Thomas  O'Co.mcU  was  born  and  reared  in 
Limerick,  Ireland.  In  St.  John  he  engagetl 
in  the  grocery  and  li(|Uor  business,  and  also 
carried  on  some  farming.  He  and  his  wife 
bad  a  family  of  ten  children,  five  sons  and  five 
daughters.  Four  of  these  —  namely,  John, 
William,  ICllen,  and  Annie  —  died  in  child- 
hood. The  survivors  are:  Bartholomew,  Da- 
vid, and  James,  all  of  St.  John;  Mary,  who  is 
the  wife  of  Thomas  Kenney,  of  St.  John ; 
Nora,  who  is  the  wife  of  William  P'innev,  of 
St.  John ;   and  Catherine,    who  is  the  v. '  e  of 


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Robert  Robcrtsdii,  ol  I'hiladclphi;!,  I'a.  The 
father  died  in  i86iS,  at  the  ajje  of  fifty-six;  and 
the  mother  died  mi  Se))teiid)er  19,  1S95,  at  the 
aj,'e  of  eiyhty-foiir. 

David  O'Coiineil  ^rew  to  inanliood  in  his 
native  city,  and  at  the  a^e  of  sixteen  hej;an 
(hiving  a  team  for  the  Ivagie  I'"oimchy.  After 
workin;;  for  tliis  firm  for  three  years,  he  started 
in  jjusiiiess  ftir  himself  as  a  truelcer.  His 
mother  borrowed  fifty  dollars  for  bin),  with 
which  to  luni'hase  a  team,  agreeing'  to  jiay  .'• 
dollar  a  month  interest.  So  sucee:;sf'.;!  'vas-  he 
from  the  start  that  at  the  end  of  his  second 
week  he  was  able  to  rejjay  the  loan.  lie 
worked  at  trucking  for  seven  years,  and  at  tiie 
end  of  thai  time  l)oii^iit  out  a  li\ery  business 
in  Union  Street.  Six  years  later  he  moved  to 
Sydney  Street,  where  he  stayed  fifteen  years; 
and  in  1895  he  built  his  ])resent  stable  in 
Waterloo  Street.  'I'his  is  the  most  complete 
livery  in  St.  John,  and  has  ]>atr()na{;e  from  the 
best  class  of  |)eo|)le.  Mr.  ()'Connell  has  now 
been  in  business  for  over  a  (|uarter  of  a  cent- 
ury, and  his  experience  fits  him  to  cojie  with 
any  emergeuc}'.  lie  lias  done  considerable 
contract  work  in  teaming.  b'or  twenty-five 
years  he  has  carried  the  government  mail.  He 
bad  the  contract  for  takir.g  out  the  foundation 
for  the  Opera  House,  and  for  the  last  six  years 
he  has  had  charge  of  watering  and  cleaning  the 
streets  of  St.  John.  He  has  also  had  the  con- 
tract for  supplying  horse;  for  Campobello 
Hotel.  In  connection  with  his  livery  business 
Mr.  O'Connell  has  bought  and  sold  mai  y 
horses,  bringing  them  from  Montreal  and  I'rince 
Edward  Island,  and  selling  them  in  this  city. 


Mr.  O'Connell  was  married  in  1S75  to 
Hridget  Forre.st.  She  died  in  October,  18.S8, 
having  been  the  mother  of  four  children  - 
Mary,  Laura,  Ulanche,  and  William.  On  No- 
vember 14,  1890,  Mr.  O'Connell  'uiited 
in  m.irriage  with  Mary  Hums,  of  .St 


KriU'R  .\.  SII.XW,  carriage  manulac- 
turer,  St.  John,  was  born  in  Moncton, 
N.M.,  June  i,  1853,  son  of  .Stephen 
H.  and  Mary  (Stedman)  Shaw.  His  grand- 
father, Duncan  .Shaw,  a  native  of  Perthshire, 
.Scotland,  served  as  a  midshiijman  in  the  lirit- 
ish  nav\  duiing  the  -American  Revolution,  and, 
retiuning  to  I']uro|)e  after  the  close  of  the  war, 
retired  from  the  .service. 

Dinican  Shaw  was  a  graduate  of  the  lulin- 
burgh  University.  1  laving  been  fa^•  ly  im- 
[iressed  with  the  inducements  offcre  tiers 

in  America,  he  recrossed  the  .\tlani.  ,  and 
after  his  marriage,  which  took  place  in  I'ort- 
land.  Me.,  he  settled  in  .Sackville,  N.  H.  En- 
gaging in  tlic  ship-building  business,  he  con- 
struitcd  the  first  two  vessels  launched  in  that 
town,  which  were  captured  by  .American  |)ri- 
vateers  during  the  War  of  iSij.  He  oiiened 
the  |)laster  mines  at  .\lheit,  built  a  hotel  in 
Sackville  known  as  the  ".Shaw  House,"  which 
he  managed  for  some  time;  and  he  served  as 
Deinity-sheriff.  Jk'ing  the  first  graduate  of 
ICdinburgh  University  to  locate  in  the  settle- 
ment, he  was  considered  a  valuable  accpiisition, 
and  was  one  of  the  juoneer  schoolma.sters  in 
Sackville.  He  was  prominently  identified  with 
the  Masonic  order,  anil  reached  a  high  degree. 


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241 


lie  attended  the  Clnirch  1  if  KiigUnid.  Duncan 
Shaw  lived  tn  l)e  over  eij^hty  years  old.  Of 
his  uniiiii  witii  his  fust  wile,  whn  was  a  daiifjli- 
ter  of  (^aptain  llamm,  of  i'cirtlainl,  Me.,  were 
l)oni  fi\f  liiiicheii;  iiaimdy,  Stephen  II., 
Martha,  Saraii,  William,  and  Charles.  Martha 
married  a  Mr.  Lewis;  and  .Sarah  married  (ien- 
iral  Harper,  of  Shediaek.  Dunean  Shaw  mar- 
ried for  ills  strond  wife  a  Miss  Steeves,  and 
hail  oiu-  son,  James,  and  one  <laiij;hter,  .Susan, 
who  heeanie  the  wife  of  John  Cameron. 

Stephen  II.  Shaw,  son  of  ])nn(an  and  father 
of  Arthur  N.  Shaw,  was  born  in  Sackville  in 
iSoi.  lie  was  educated  liy  his  father,  and 
taught  school  in  his  native  town  tliree  years. 
i'"nterinj{  tlie  employ  of  Captain  Stanton,  a 
shipd)uilder,  as  clerk  and  hook-keeper,  he  was 
for  a  number  of  years  in  cliarf,'e  of  the  captain's 
store;  and  after  that.  ii"\\yn  to  (  '  ik  I'oint,  he 
filled  a  similar  posili  tjiere  for  some  time. 
He  was  next  enqdoy  for  a  while  at  Ara- 
niocto,  N.  H.,  and  still  ter  was  eri;a^'ed  in 
the  lumber  business  at  >  incton.  (loin^  tn 
St.  John  in  i.S.^f),  he  had  charj^e  of  II.  J.  vS:  I). 
McKay's  saw-mills  until  1.S50,  when  his  em- 
])!oyers  retired  from  business;  and  he  suhse- 
ipiently  manaf,^ed  the  lumber  business  of  the 
Hon.  John  Robertson.  lie  was  secretary  and 
manager  of  the  .South  Uav  IJoom  Comi)any 
from  1858  to  1876,  when  he  retired.  During 
the  last  ten  yc.irs  of  his  life  he  suffered  pa- 
tiently from  the  lass  of  his  eyesight.  Stephen 
II.  Shaw  died  May  12,  1886.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  church.  His  hrst  wife, 
Mary,  was  a  native  of  Moncton,  daughter  of 
William   and    Ilaiuiah    (Trites)    Stedman,    the 


former  of  whom  came  to  New  Hrunswick  with 
the  Loyalists  after  the  close  of  the  American 
Revolution,  and  followed  the  blacksmith's 
trade  in  eoimection  with  fainiing.  William 
.Stedman  and  his  wifi'  both  Ii\cd  to  an  advanced 
age.  They  were  the  parents  of  ten  children; 
namely,  John,  William,  James,  laioch,  lietsey, 
Mary,  Margaret,  Nancy,  Caroline,  and  I'" ranees. 
Mrs.  Mary  S,  Shaw  died  Jaiuiary  14,  1849; 
and  .Steiihen  II.  .Shaw  married  for  his  second 
wife  Itetse\  I.ee,  a  daughter  of  Major  Lee,  of 
St.  John.  She  died  July  27,  1897,  aged 
ninety-two.  .Stephen  H.  was  the  father  of  ten 
children,  all  by  his  lirst  marriage;  namely, 
William  Duncan,  h'.dniund  J'.,  .Arthur  N., 
(ieorgc,  Charles  .S.,  John,  James,  Caroline, 
Martha,  and  Mary.  Of  these  William  Dun- 
can, (ieorge,  and  John  are  no  longer  living. 
Lclmiind  r. ,  Charles  S.,  James,  and  .Arthur  N. , 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  reside  in  St.  John. 
Caroline  niarried  Colonel  \\illiam  Cnnard,  of 
St.  John ;  Martha  married  Mdgar  Whiteside, 
now  of  I'alatka  Heights,  Fla.  ;  and  Mary  is  the 
wife  of  h'rederick  Colonian,  of  l''redjricton. 

Arthur  X.  Shaw  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools.  After  serving  an  apprenticeship  of 
four  years  at  the  carriage-maker's  trade  with 
Jeremiah  Hairison  he  worked  as  a  journeyman 
in  Massachusetts,  New  Wnk,  and  Connecticut 
for  two  years.  Returning  to  .St.  John  he  re- 
entered the  employ  of  Mr.  Harrison,  with 
whom  be  remained  until  the  factory  was 
burned,  when,  in  company  with  James  A. 
I'rice,  Samuel  Crolhers,  anil  Ilenr)'  Sayre,  he 
bought  the  property  and  rebuilt  the  shop. 
That    concern    carried    on    business    for    three 


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years,  at  tin-  ciiil  of  wliich  time  Messrs.  Price 
&  Shaw  establislicd  the  l;iisiness  wliicli  they 
are  stiil  eoiidiieting.  They  mamifaiture  all 
kinds  (if  vehicles  in  a  durable  as  well  as  an 
artistic  manner,  and  aie  (ine  nt  the  oldesl  car- 
rla};el)uildinj;  tirms  in  St.  John. 

On  November  i,  1859,  Mr.  Shaw  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Margaret  !•!.  Ililyard, 
daughter  of  the  late  Thcmias  liiiyard,  of  St. 
John.  'I'hev  have  had  eiglit  childien  Will- 
iam 11. ,  I'anest  I.ee,  Mary,  Matilda,  I.oretta 
I..,  Annie,  Charles,  and  Arthur.  William  II. 
.Shaw  is  in  biisieess  with  his  lathei.  I'.rnest 
Lee,  Annie,  ('h.iiles,  and  .\rtlun'  are  mi  hinger 
living. 

Mr.  Shaw  was  fnrmerly  (luite  active  in  pub- 
lic affairs,  and  ser\ed  with  ability  as  treasurer 
(if  the  tnst  'I'dwn  t'liuncil.  lie  attends  the 
W'esleyan  Methmlist  churcl.. 


^y-'.i'l'.K    Mri'Clli;!!.,  the  pr.igenil.ir  of 
'-^       the     Miuhell    faniih-   (il    Miiamichi, 
N'.H.,  was  a  native  nl  Abei'deen,  Seol- 


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when  a  young  man. 


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engaged  in   the   hotel   business,  w 


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Newcastle, 


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.Side,      'riieii'  children  were  >.iglit  in  number  — 

Harbara,    j.me. 


Will 


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I'etei',     I.imes, 


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Fall 


Watt,  ami  had  three  children 


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Watt 


1857,  and  died  in  the  West  in  1873.  A  sepa- 
rate sketch  (li  IVtcr  (the  lion.  I'eter  Mitchell) 
may  lie  found  elsewhere  in  tiiis  volume,  liar 
bara  died  unmar'ied  in  185V  Jane  is  now 
a  resident  of  the  I'nited  .States.  William  di^d 
in  1845.  Mary  became  the  wife  of  John 
Hardy,  an  employee  in  the  Marino  OfTice  at 
Ottawa.  I'eter  Mitchell,  the  father,  died  i- 
1850.  His  wile,  surviving  him  eighteen 
years,  passed  away  in  1868. 

James  Mitchell,  son  of  I'eter  and  Harbara 
(Grant)  Mitchell,  was  born  October  10,  1825, 
three  days  aftt'r  the  great  fire  of  Miramichi, 
being  the  first  white  child  born  in  the  countv 
after  that  memorable  event.  He  icceivt'd  his 
educa'.on  in  the  grammar-school  of  Newcastle. 
Appointed  High  .Sheriff  in  1855,  he  made  one 
of  the  best  slieriffs  that  Xorthiimbci  land  County 
ever  had,  ho'  dug  the  office  fmni  1S35  to  1871. 
In  tiio  year  la't  named  he  resignetl  it  in  order 
to  accept  the  apiiointment  of  Inspector  of 
Lights  under  his  brother,  I'eter,  who  was  then 
Minister  of  Marine  and  iMsbeiies.  lie  I'on 
tinued  in  this  |i(isition  until  he  was  sii|ierannii 
ated,  since  which  time  he  has  lived  ii'liied  at 
bis  home  in  Newcastle. 

He  was  first  married   in    18: 


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Jane    Caldw 
father  came 


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attained  maturitw  namely 
engiiu'cr,  now  in  Hiitish  t! 
lied  I.ily  Mcl.agan  ;  James,  a  liaiiister,  mar- 
ried to  lsai)ella  McCiirdy,  who  died  at  Medi- 
cine   Hat,    in    l-'ebruary,    1898,    at   the   age  of 


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forty-two  years;  and  Clarence,  who  married 
a  Miss  McCiirtly,  and  is  now  a  civil  engineer 
in  Manitoba.  The  mother  of  these  children 
died  in  iS6y;  antl  James  Mitchell  married  for 
his  second  wife,  in  1870,  Miss  Helle  McCiirdy, 
a  daughter  (if  Isaac  i\IcC'nrdy,  a  native  of  Truro, 
N.  S. ,  and  of  Scotch  descent.  J5y  this  imion 
there  was  one  son,  Charles,  a  barrister  nt  Med- 
icine Hat,  X.W.T.  Mr.  James  Mitchell  is 
a  member  of  the  I'rcshvtcrian  church. 


-OHN  M.  TAYLOR,  an  enterprising 
and  successful  commission  merchant  of 
St.  John,  was  born  in  JUmccranna,  a 
town  situated  on  the  shore  of  Loch  Swilly,  in 
the  County  Donegal,  Ireland,  about  ten  miles 
from  Londonderry,  in  1837.  Ilis  parents  were 
Samuel  and  Ivstber  (Wilson)  Taylor,  the  for- 
mer of  whom  was  an  officer  in  her  majesty's 
revenue  s'lrvice. 

Samuel  Taylor  was  horn  in  tiie  castle  of 
lUinccranna.  The  castle  was  then  occupied  by 
his  maternal  grantirather,  Captain  Moore,  a 
retired  revenue  officer,  who,  with  his  son-in- 
law,  (icorge  Taylor,  of  Dublin,  was  acting  as 
a  commis.sary  agent  for  tiie  British  govern- 
ment. During  the  l-'ranco-Spanish  War,  Cap- 
tain Moore  commanded  tiie  four-masted  jiri- 
vateer  "Fame,"  of  Dublin,  which  carried  a 
force  of  five  hundred  men;  and  he  handled  her 
so  successfully  that  he  not  only  gained  the 
thanks  of  the  government,  but  was  tendered 
the  freedom  of  the  city  of  Dublin.  At  the 
time  of  the  unsuccessful  attempt  to  land 
l'"reiich  and  Irish  soldiers  in  the  north  of   Ire- 


land, one  of  the  vessels,  called  "La  Hoach," 
having  on  board  a  large  number  of  Irish  rebels 
and  French  filibusters,  was  captured  and 
brought  into  Loch  Swilly.  On  the  following 
Sunday  morning  the  captured  officers,  with 
the  officers  of  the  Hritisb  ship,  were  invited 
to  breakfast  by  Captain  Moor*,  who  immedi- 
ately recognized  among  the  French  officers  an 
old  schoolmate  and  disguised  Irish  rebel, 
named  Wolfe  Tone.  It  may  be  interesting  to 
the  reader  to  know  that  a  picture  of  the  pri- 
vateer "I'\ame, "  representing  her  entry  into 
the  Hay  of  Naples  with  her  three  prizes,  is 
still  in  existence,  and  is  owned  by  one  of  her 
commander's  descendants.  He  also  has  a 
document,  printed  upon  satin,  which  was  pre- 
sented to  Captain  Moore  by  the  Dey  of 
Algiers,  a  duelling  pistol,  and  several  other 
keepsakes  which  formerly  belonged  to  his 
sturdy  ancestor. 

John  M.  Taylor  came  to  St.  John  when  a 
young  lad,  and  consec|uently  has  but  a  slight 
remembrance  of  his  birthplace.  He  accpiired 
a  practical  education  in  the  schools  of  the 
city,  and  in  1867  he  became  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Taylor  &  Wilson,  engaged  in  the 
brokerage  and  commission  business  on  North 
Wharf.  After  the  retirement  of  his  jiartner, 
which  took  place  in  1S70,  he  continued  the 
business  alone,  and  occupied  the  same  prem- 
ises until  1877,  when  he  moved  to  the  build- 
ing he  now  owns,  situated  at  the  corner  of 
Xorth  Wharf  and  Nelson  Street. 

Mr.  Taylor  marrieil  for  Ids  lirst  wife  I'lliza- 
beth  Crosby,  daugiiter  of  H.  H,  and  I'Llizabeth 
(  Huckson)  Crosby,  and  after  her  death  he  mm'- 


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rieil  her  sister,  Alice  M.  Crosby.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Crosby,  their  parents,  were  born  in 
Albion,  Me. ;  and  Mr.  Crosby,  who  was  a  well- 
known  contractor  and  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Small  &  Crosby,  of  St.  John,  returned  to  his 
birtiiplacc  to  pass  his  declining  days.  Two 
children  born  of  Mr.  Taylor's  first  marriage 
died.  Of  the  second  marriage  there  arc  three 
children;  namely,  Harold  Grant,  St.mley 
Hartwell,  antl  lizabeth.  Harold  Grant 
Taylor  is  sti.  g  theology,  and  Stanley 
Hartwell  Taylor  i  a  member  of  Clark  & 
Taylor,  of  St.  John,  N.li. 

Mr.  Taylor  has  interested  himself  in  some 
of  the  best-known  charitable  institutions  of 
this  city,  being  a  gr A'crnor  of  the  Wiggins 
Male  Orphan  Institution,  a  direetor  of  the 
Protestant  Orphan  Asylum  and  of  the  Home 
for  Aged  I-'cmales,  and  be  is  treasurer  of  the 
New  Ikunswick  Society  for  the  Prevention  of 
Cruelty  to  Animals.  He  is  also  Deputy 
Supreme  Regent  of  the  Royal  Arcanum,  a  di- 
rector of  the  Horticultural  Association,  a 
director  of  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institution  of 
P'redericton,  N.  H. ,  and  a  retired  officer  of  tlie 
New  Hrunswick  Regimeni  of  Artillery. 


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fOlIN  W.    DANI1';L,    M.I)..    M.R.C.S., 
of    St.  John,  N.  15.    was    born     in     .St. 
Stephen,  N.H.,  January  27,   1S45,  a  son 
of  the  late  Rev.  Henry  Daniel. 

Henry  Daniel  was  born  in  1.S07,  in  Pen- 
zance, County  Cornwall,  ICngland.  He  was 
ordained  as  a  minister  of  the  gospel  in  Lon- 
don, and  by   the  Methodist   Mission   Hoard  of 


that  city  was  sent  in  1S30  as  a  missionary  to 
St.  Andrews,  N.  B.  On  entering  upon  his 
work  in  that  place,  he  found  no  church  organ- 
ization, and  but  si.\  persons  who  were  commu- 
nicants; but  at  the  end  of  one  short  year  he 
found  himself  at  the  head  of  a  church  with 
thirty  active  members.  He  labored  in  various 
parts  of  the  Maritime  Provinces  a  number  of 
years  with  great  success,  but  in  1849  returned 
to  lilngland,  to  there  engage  in  ministerial 
work.  At  the  urgent  recpiest,  however,  of 
many  peo])le  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic,  he 
again  came  to  New  Prunswick,  where  he 
labored  until  1S70.  He  subsec[uently  lived 
retired,  and,  with  the  exception  of  a  short  time 
spent  in  P'redericton  just  after  the  fire,  resided 
with  his  son  John.  He  was  i;,ominently  iden- 
tified with  the  religious  organizations  of  his 
denomination,  and  iov  a  number  of  years  was 
chairman  of  the  district,  serving  in  that  capac- 
ity until  his  election  in  1.S68  as  Nice-presi- 
dent (if  the  conference,  a  position  which  he 
filled  for  a  year,  when  he  was  made  piesideiit 
of  the  organization.  He  married  Honor  Hran- 
well  lulnionds,  (if  Penzance,  pjigland,  by 
whom  he  had  si.x  children,  namely:  Pmiua  P., 
deceased;  Mary  I-nizabeth;  l'",liza  Pdmonds; 
Henry  Marwood,  deceased;  John  \V.,  the  spe- 
cial subject  of  this  sketch;  and  the  Rev. 
"lobert  Abbott  Daniel,  deceased.  'I'he  Rev. 
H(  nry  Daniel  died  November  S,  1  S(j6.  Hi.s 
wife  jireceded  liini  tn  the  belter  land,  having 
dietl  May  24,  18S3.  .She  was  own  cousin  to 
Charlotte  Pronte,  the  well-known  pjiglish 
novelist. 

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he  accomiianicd  his  parents  to  ]?ath,  Somcrsct- 
sliirc,  iMiglaiul,  where  he  siibsec|ucntly  piir- 
sucd  his  studies  for  several  years.  After  com- 
ing back  to  New  Hruiiswick,  lie  studied  medi- 
cine in  New  York  City,  N.Y. ,  and  graduated 
from  the  Hellcvue  Ilosjiital  Medical  College 
ill  1S65.  Then  entering  the  United  States 
army  as  acting  assistant  surgeon,  Dr.  Daniel 
served  on  hosiiital  duty,  first  at  New  Orleans 
and  then  at  l'"ort  Gaines,  Ala.  After  the  cap- 
ture of  Mobile  he  was  jjlaced  on  duty  there, 
and  subsec|uently  given  charge  of  the  officers' 
hospital  of  that  city.  hroni  there  he  was  sent 
up  Red  River,  and  was  connected  with  the 
J'lighth  Illinois  Regiment  until  transferred  to 
the  hospital  at  Shreveiiort,  La.,  of  which  he 
had  charge  until  he  resigned  from  the  army. 
i'\fter  spending  a  month  or  two  in  the  Xortii, 
Di'.  Daniel  went  to  London,  ICngland,  where, 
becoming  attached  to  the  London  Hospital,  he 
served  under  the  late  celebrated  Jonathan 
Hutchinson,  h".  R.C.  S.,  and  graduated  from 
tiie  Royal  College  of  .Surgeons,  of  which  he 
was  a  member.  Returning  then  to  the  Prov- 
inces, Dr.  Daniel  spent  two  years  in  Li\er- 
])ool,  N.S.,  whence  he  came  to  St.  John,  where 
he  has  since  continued  in  the  successful  jjrac- 
tice  of  his  pidfession. 

Dr.  Daniel  holds  high  rank  among  his  pro- 
fessional brethren,  and  is  connected  with  the 
leading  medical  organizations  of  the  Prov- 
ince, being  a  mendier  of  the  New  Hiunswick 
Medical  Society,  which  he  has  served  as  presi- 
dent, ;uid  a  member  and  past  president  of  the 
St.  Joini  Medical  Society.  He  is  a  member 
of  Court  Log  Cabin,  of  which  he  is  Court  Ph)- 


sician,  and  i?  likewise  past  president  of  St. 
George's  Society.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
St.  John  Hoard  of  Health,  one  of  the  commis- 
sioners of  liie  (ieneral  Public  Hospital,  and  is 
surgeon,  with  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel, 
of  the  Third  Canadian  Artillery.  I""rater- 
nally,  the  Doctor  was  a  Mason  in  Liverpool, 
N.S.,  anil  demitted  to  St.  Joiin's  Lodge, 
A.  !••.  &  A.  M.  Politically,  be  is  a  Liberal 
Conservative.  In  1S94  he  was  electeil  Alder- 
man from  St.  Joim,  attached  to  Queens  Ward, 
and  re-elected  in  1S96  and  1897  He  served 
most  efficiently  as  ciiairman  of  the  Treasury 
Hoaid,  as  a  member  of  the  Hoard  of  Works,  of 
the  Hoard  of  Management,  of  the  Advisory 
Hoard  in  connection  with  lIari)or  Iniprove- 
nienls,  and  as  chairman  of  tiie  conjoint  Com- 
mittee of  tile  ConuiKni  Council  and  the  Hoai'd 
of  Trade  on  Pilotage  Matters.  He  attends  and 
su]ip(nts  the  Centenary  Methodist  Churcli. 

Dr.  Daniel  married  Miss  Jessie  Porteous, 
daughter  of  the  late  Joiiu  iMinis,  of  St.  John, 
N.  H. 


LI'XANDKR  CHRLSTH'.,  son  of  Will- 
iam antl  Annie  C'hristie,  natives  of 
.Scotland,  was  horn  on  September  I, 
1S26,  at  Xerepis,  Kings  County,  N.  H.  The 
Cliristie  family  consisted  of  Alexander,  James, 
John,  William  (Jr.),  I'Hi/.ab'.'tii,  Annie,  and 
Jane. 

Mr.  Christie  emigrated  to  St.  John  in  1845, 
where  he  learned  tiie  trade  of  car|)enter.  In 
1S65  lie  entered  into  partnership  with  John 
l'"erguson,  and  started  a  door  and  sash  factory, 
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lai{;c  business,  and  cicctci]  sumo  of  llic  finest 
biiildinj^s  in  St.  John.  Amoiii;-  tlicni  niiiy  be 
mentioned  the  Masonic  and  t)dd  i'"eilo\vs' 
Halls,  Simeon  Jones's  residence,  the  old  \'ie- 
toiia  Hotel,  and  the  Acadcni)'  of  Music,  which 
stood  before  the  great  (ire  of  1S77.  Jii  1SS3 
the  firm  of  A.  Christie  &  Co.  was  dissolved, 
anil  the  business  \vr  '  taken  over  by  the  A. 
Christie  Wood-work injj  Comjiany,  Mr.  Christie 
beinj;  apiiointcd  niana,i;cr  of  the  latter.  ( )n 
two  occasions  Mr.  Chiistie's  factory  was  de- 
stroyed by  fire. 

Mr.  Christie's  first  wife,  whose  maiden  name 
was  .Sarah  McAUi.ster,  bore  him  no  children. 
To  him  and  his  second  wife,  .Annie  .Sinclair, 
daughter  of  Jolin  and  Janet  Sinclair,  and  a 
native  (jf  Orkney,  .Scotland,  four  children  were 
born  -William  A.,  Annie  J.  1..,  James,  and 
Charles  .S.  Christie.  ^\nnie  is  the  wife  of 
John  U.  Roberts,  of  New  York.  IMr.  Chris- 
tie is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order. 


lOLONl'.L      RICHARD      MllNJAMIN 

KM  rCil  LI.M,  a  retired  merchant  of 
Woodstock,  Carleton  County,  \.H. , 
bis  native  place,  was  born  on  November  26, 
1832,  .son  of  James  and  Mary  C.  (Griffith) 
Ketchum.  His  paternal  grandfather.  Colonel 
Richard  Ketchum,  a  Loyalist,  removed  from 
Long  Island,  N.Y.,  to  Wood.stock  in  the 
early  days  of  its  settlement,  and  was  here  en- 
gaged in  farming  and  lumbering,  paying  espe- 
cial attention  to  the  latter  industry.  He  was 
a  man  of  prominence,  having  his  title  irom 
his  rank    in   tlie   militia,  and   serving   for  one 


term  as  a  member  of  tlie  I'rovincial  Parlia- 
ment. He  was  a  chief  promoter  of  the  build- 
ing of  the  first  church  edifice  in  the  town  of 
Woodstock,  being  a  large  subscriber,  and  he 
was  suhse(|uently  a  warden  of  the  church  sev- 
eral years.  He  also  acted  as  Justice  of  the 
I'eace. 

James  Ketchum  was  born  and  reared  in 
Woodstock,  and  during  his  active  life  followed 
farming  as  an  occupati<in.  He  was  interested 
in  military  matters,  and  served  as  Major  in 
the  militia.  At  one  time  he  held  the  office  of 
Supervisor  of  Great  Roads,  which  then  in- 
cluded the  care  of  the  roads  between  I'reder- 
icton  and  Grand  i-'alls  and  between  Wood- 
stock and  I  loulton,  I\le.  i  le  married  Mary  C, 
daughter  of  Henjamin  I'eck  (iriffith,  of  Wood- 
stock, will)  as  Major  in  a  regiment  of  the  Brit- 
ish regular  army,  took  part  in  the  American 
Revolutionary  War.  They  had  eight  chil- 
dren: Frederick  (deceased),  late  of  Arroyo 
Grande,  .San  Luis  tibispo  County,  Cal.  ; 
I'.li/.abeth  (deceased),  who  was  the  wife  of  the 
late  Tlioinas  Timus  Vernon  Smith,  C.L. ,  of 
Windsor,  N.  .S.  ;  Charles,  a  resident  of  the 
parish  of  Woodstock;  Richard  H.,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch;  Mary,  who  died  at  the  age 
of  eighteen  years;  CMiarlotte  Augusta  (de- 
ceased), who  was  the  wife  of  the  late  C'harles 
H.  lUdl;  b' ranees,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
eighteen  years;  and  Harriet  C.  (deceased), 
who  was  the  first  wife  of  II.  A.  Connell. 
Both  parents  were  members  of  tiie  Church  ol 
jjigland. 

Richard  B.  Ketchum  obtained  his  early 
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he  was  twenty-two  years  old  remained  on  the 
parental  homestead.  Starting  then  in  busi- 
ness for  himself,  he  opened  a  store  at  Upper 
Woodstock,  where  he  was  successfully  en- 
gaged as  a  merchant  for  a  (|uarter  of  a  century. 
In  1880  he  removed  to  Aroostook  County, 
Maine,  and  in  com[)any  with  II.  C.  Sharpe, 
•mder  the  firm  name  of  Sharpe  &  Ketchum, 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  lumber  on  an 
extensive  scale,  and  until  1890  carried  on  a 
flourishing  business,  having  four  mills  inojjcr- 
ation  the  greater  part  of  the  time.  In  that 
year  the  partnership  was  dis.solved,  and  Mr. 
Ketchum  took  the  mil!  at  llodgdon,  Me., 
where  he  continued  manufacturing  lumber 
until  his  retirement  in  1896. 

Colonel  Ketchum  took  an  active  interest  in 
everything  pertaining  to  militia  affairs  from 
his  youth  up,  and  for  a  number  of  years  was 
Captain  of  Company  I,  Si.\ty-.seventh  Hattal- 
ion,  Carleton  Light  Infantry,  lie  was  after- 
ward appointed  Adjutant,  then  made  Major  of 
his  regiment,  and  subs(M|iicntly  appointed  its 
CJjionclj  an  office  which  he  held  until  his 
resignation  from  the  service. 

He  is  a  Conservative  in  politics.  l'"or 
eight  or  more  years  he  was  County  Councillor 
for  the  town  and  i)arish  of  Woodstock.  He 
was  likewise  Warden  of  the  county  for  a  year. 
In  1897  he  was  elected  Town  Councillor,  and 
while  in  this  office  served  as  chairman  of  the 
.Street  Committee  and  as  a  member  of  the 
Sewer  and  I'inance  ("ommittees.  He  attends 
the  Anglican  Church,  of  which  he  is  an  active 
member. 

Mr.   Ketchum    married    .Martha   Ann    I'.li/.a- 


beth,  daughter  of  George  N.  Hull,  of  Wood- 
stock. They  have  two  children  —  I''rank  W. 
and  Frances  Maria.  I'rances  Maria  married 
Duppa  Smith,  of  Woodstock,  and  they  have 
five  children;  namely,  Maud  K.,  Marguerite, 
Madeline,  Gladys,  and  Dorothy.  Frank  W. 
Ketchum  married  Olive  Barton,  of  Houlton, 
Me.,  and  has  two  children  —  Richard  and  Jo- 
sephine. 

OHl'RT  .MAXWICI.L,  the  well-known 
juildiiig  contractor  of  .St.  John,  and 
Alderman  from  Prince  Ward,  was 
born  in  l-'redericton,  N.H.,  June  17,  1858, 
son  of  John  and  ICliza  (Ha.\ter)  Maxwell.  His 
grandfather,  also  named  John  Ma.xwell,  emi- 
grated from  Irelai'.d,  accompanied  by  his  fam- 
ily, and,  settling  uiion  a  farm  in  b'rcdericton, 
he  resided  there  until  his  death,  which  oc- 
curieil  at  the  age  of  about  sixty-seven  years. 

John  Maxwell,  Robert  Maxwell's  father, 
was  born  in  County  Tyrone,  Ireland,  and 
brought  across  the  ocean  while  in  Iiis  infancy. 
When  old  enough  to  learn  a  trade  he  was  ap- 
prenticed to  a  ma.son,  with  whom  he  remained 
five  years,  and  at  the  expiration  of  his  term  of 
service  he  engaged  in  business  for  himself. 
l-"or  many  years  he  has  been  prominentiv  iden- 
tified with  the  building  operations  of  Frederic- 
ton,  having  erected  a  number  of  well-known 
buildings,  including  business  blocks,  resi- 
dences, etc.,  and  he  has  acquired  a  high  repu- 
tation. During  his  younger  days  he  took  an 
active  interest  in  military  affairs,  and  when  the 
b'enian  movement  threatened  to  seriously  dis- 
turb the  traiuiuillity  of   the  Provinces,  he   was 


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ciimini.ssidiicd  ;i  l.iL'Utcn.ml  in  tlie  militia. 
lie  bi'loiiys  lo  the  Older  of  I'Dicstfis,  ami  in 
1899  was  elcrtcd  Aldoinian  lor  the  cily  of 
l'"rcclcricton.  His  wife,  I'.ji/a,  who  is  also  a 
native  of  County  Tyrone,  einie  to  New  I^nns- 
wick  with  her  jiarents  when  twelve  \ears  old; 
and  her  father,  Saniuid  Ha.Nter,  died  durin:; 
the  passage.  .She  has  had  seven  ehijdren  — 
Robert,  IClizaheth,  h'anny,  James,  MaL;j;ie, 
Willie,  and  Lillian,  hilizaheth  married  James 
HiKfiSi  <'f  i'redeiieton  ;  l''anny  mairied  Thomas 
]•;.  Dyer,  of  St.  John.  James  died  at  the  a^e 
of  twelve  year.s,  May^ie  died  at  the  a^e  of  one 
year,  and  Willie  died  in  infaney. 

Robert  ;\Ia.\well  ;ici|uired  his  education  in 
l'"rederieton  under  the  ilireetion  of  Drs.  Rob- 
erts and  Coster,  and  Mr.  John  Mome.  Hav- 
ing served  an  apinenticeship  under  his  father 
he,  in  1877,  eame  lo  St.  John,  where  he 
worked  as  a  journeyman  some  si.\  venrs,  and  in 
1SS3  he  entered  into  partnership  with  the  lale 
William  Causey,  a  native  of  I'lxniouth,  b'.ii.i, 
land,  and  for  si.\ty  yeais  a  iirurninent  builder 
in  this  city.  The  firm  of  Cause)  &  Afa.xwell 
continued  until  the  death  of  the  former,  which 
occurred  in  March,  1S95,  and  for  llie  past  four 
\ears  .Mr.  Ma.xwell  has  comhuted  business 
alone.  He  erected  the  L'nion  baptist  .Semi- 
nary, St.  Martins;  the  Centennial  School,  St. 
John;  the  .Sund;iy-school  buildini^  connected 
with  the  .Stone  Chuiih;  the  residence  of  Sir 
Leonard  Tilley,  and  several  handsome  dwell- 
inj;-houses  (ju  (ierniain  .Stu'ct;  the  C.  II. 
I'eters  block;  the  Main  Street  Jiaptist  Church, 
and  other  buildin,L;s  of  note  —  all  of  which  ,iie 
unusually  fme  spetimens  of  the  builder's  ;ut. 


In  iS;,-!  Mr.  Maxwell  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  I'.nnelia  T.  McConncll,  daughter  of 
Moses  McConnell,  who  came  from  Ireland 
when  younj;'.  They  have  hail  eight  children; 
namely,  Charles  Tilley,  Mabel,  John  Herbert, 
I'lossie  and  lulward  (twins),  Ldith,  Hazel,  and 
\'era.      All  are  li\'ini;'  except  Ldward. 

iNlr.  Ma.xw(ll  was  elected  to  the  Board  of 
School  Trustees  in  1S97,  and  to  the  Hoard  of 
Aldermen  in  iS9,S,  and  Warden  of  the  county 
of  .St.  John  in  1S99.  He  is  Past  Crand 
Worthy  I'atriaiih  of  the  .Sons  of  Tem[>erance 
of  New  Brunswick,  Past  (irand  Lecturer  of  the 
Orange  .Society  of  New  Brunswick,  and  Pa.st 
Chief  Ranger  of  the  Indeiiendent  Order  of  I'"or- 
esters.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Knights  of 
Pvtbias  and  the  Ancient  (  )rdcr  of  Ciiiteil 
Workmen. 


t^ToX.  HARRISON  A.  M.  Ki;oWN, 
f—'  I  ]\I.P.  P.,  a  hicmbt'i' of  the  government 
>~— -  of  New  Brunswick,  is  a  well-known 
barrister  ol  .St.  John,  :iiul  was  boin  in  St. 
Stephen,  N.li.,  November  jS,  iSG.^,  son  of  the 
Re\-.  Ilezekiah  and  I'^li/.abeth  S.  (Harrison) 
McKeown.  He  w:is  educated  at  the  C(dlegiate 
.Scho(d  ;it  P'redeiicton  ami  at  Mount  -\llison 
University,  being  graduated  a  Bachelor  of  Arts 
from  the  latter  in  i.S.Si.  He  .studietl  law  in 
the  offices  of  Dr.  A.  A.  .Stoekton  and  Attornev- 
general  Wiiite,  and  in  I.S,S4  was  admitted  as  an 
attornc)-  ol  the  .Sui)reme  C'ouil,  since  which 
time  he  has  been  activel\-  engaged  in  the  prac- 
tice of  law  in  the  cit)  of  St.  John,  N.15.  Ik- 
is  a  giaduate  in  law  from  Victoria  L^nivorsity, 
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lie  represented  the  city  and  county  of  St.  John 
in  the  I'rovincial  Lej^islature  for  one  term, 
fnmi  1S90  to  l8y2,  and  was  elected  in  1H99  to 
the  same  body  as  a  mend)er  for  the  city.  On 
the  recon.stniction  of  tiie  New  Brunswick  ;;()V- 
ernment  in  January,  1900,  Mr.  McKeown  was 
taken  into  the  Cabinet  and  is  a  nieniber  of  the 
I'annierson  .ujniinistration. 


iKV.  Ili;/i;KlAII  A[iKi;i)\VN  was 
liiirn  at  Nictau.x  l''alls,  N.  .S.,  in  tlie 
year  i^ijo.  lie  was  educated  at 
Middletown  Univer.sity,  Micklletown,  Comi. 
In  the  year  1853  he  became  identified  with 
the  Methoilist  Conference  of  the  Maritime 
I'rovinces,  and  upon  the  division  of  the  Con- 
ference accordin;;'  to  provinces  lie  became  a 
member  of  the  New  Hrimswick  division.  lie 
occupied  a  pr>niinent  position  amoiif;  the  cler- 
gymen of  th;,t  body,  and  was  recoi;ni/.cd  as  a 
most  effective  i)ul[)it  orator  as  well  as  a  skil 
fid  administrator  of  ciiurch  affairs.  llelillei 
the  foremost  pulpits  of  the  cluircli,  being  sta- 
tioned at  St.  John,  I'redeiicton,  Woodstock, 
St.  Ste[)ben  (twice),  and  Chatham.  He  married 
I'Hizabeth  S.  Hairisnii,  of  .Slicfficld,  Suiilnu)' 
County,  and  had  live  children:  I  bin.  flarrisun 
A.  McKeown;  William  A.  MeKeown  ;  lulith 
S.  Camiibell,  wife  of  the  Rev.  (i.  M.  Camii- 
bell;  Bessie  C.  Clarke,  wife  of  (ieoij;e  J. 
Clarke,  of  .St.  Stephen;  and  Maude  ]•"..  lioii- 
nell,  wife  of  Dr.   .S,  Uniinell,  of  lu'inie,  l\.C.. 

I\Ir.  McKeown  was  conspicuous  among  the 
clergymen  of  the  Methodi.st  denomination  in 
New  Hrunswick  for  many  years.      He  held   the 


highest  positions  in  the  gift  ol  the  church, 
being  president  of  the  Conference  in  1878,  and 
being  almost  invariably  cbairmim  of  the  dis- 
trict in  which  his  sphere  of  activity  lay.  His 
death  occurred  at  Sussex,  Kings  County,  on 
October  9,   1883,  from  heart  failure. 


OSKPH   l'INLi:V,  wholesale  grocer,  St. 
John,  was  born  in  County  Donegal,  Ire- 
land, in  1S36,  son  of  William  and  Mary 
I'"iiiley.      Coming  to  St.  John  in  185S,  he  took 
a  iiosition   as  travelling  salesman,  and   a  }ear 
later    entered   the   employ   of    the   well-known 
wholesale  grocery   firm   of    I..    H.    Deveber   & 
Sons,  with  whom  he  remained   nineteen  years, 
and  as  buyer  for  that  linn  crossed  the   Atlantic 
some    forty    times.      I'pon    the   retirement    of 
L.  II.  Deveber  &  Sons,  Mr.  I'"inley  established 
himself  in  business  on  Water  .Street,  wliere  he 
:  soon  afterward   added   dry  goods  to   his   stock, 
I  and    later    moved    to    Prince    William   .Street, 
where  be  built   up   a   large   trade.      I'urchasing 
j  his  present  quarters  on   Dock   .Street,  he  sold 
i  out  his  dry-goods  department,  and  since  taking 
'  possession  of  this  store  has  given  his  attention 
wholl)-  to   his  grocery  trade,    which    is   one  of 
;  the  largest  in  the  l'rn\  ince.      He  is  a  self-made 

man.  ami  his  success  in  business   is  the  result 
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I  the  business,  and  a  iiersonal  acquaintance  with 

the   majority  of    his   custmiiers.      Mr.    I'inley 

has  always  advocated  the  system  of   cash   trade 

or  short  credit,  ami,  acting  upon  this  principle, 

he  has  made   a   reputation  as    a    close    buyer, 

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inmcis  tlie  lii-iK'lit  in  ri'diiccd  prices  tor  lasli. 
I  lu  staiti'tl  with  ;i  i';i|iil;il  ol  ten  ti)(nis;ni(i  dol- 
lars, and  at  the  end  of  tlic  cij;ht]i  year  his  sales 
had  increased  to  tliree  hundied  thiinsand  d(d- 
lars  for  the  yeir.  Althouj^h  t;d\in},r  nuaetive 
jiart  in  iKililits,  he  iia^  always  heen  a  eonsis- 
tent  l.ii)eral. 


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HARl,i:S  !■:.  FISH,  M.l'.l'.,  who  is 
I  extensively  engaged  in  stone  (piarry- 
ing  and  also  owns  a  niodern  roller 
tlonr-mill  at  Newcastle,  is  a  son  of  the  late 
James  and  I'llizabeth  (McAllister)  h'ish  and 
grandson  of  James  Alexander  I'ish,  a  pioneer 
settler  of  Miraniit  hi. 

James  Alexander  h'ish  was  a  native  of 
Waterville,  Me.  His  wife,  whose  name  in 
maidenhood  was  Sophia  Childs,  was  also  a 
native  of  Maine  and  a  member  of  a  prominent 
family  of  that  .State.  Coming  to  New  IJrnns- 
wick  some  years  after  his  marriage,  he  settled 
on  the  Miramichi  River,  where  he  fonnd  em- 
ployment at  Inmbering,  working  in  the  woods. 
lie  then  sent  for  his  family,  which  consisted 
of  iiis  wife,  two  sons  and  a  daughter  —  James, 
Hiram,  and  I'Lsther.  Though  the  cliildren 
were  small  at  the  time,  they  all  accomplished 
the  journey  on  foot.  .Starting  from  Water- 
ville in  .September,  they  proceeded  first  to  .St. 
John,  thence  up  the  river  to  I'Vedericton,  ami 
thence  across  country  to  Miramichi,  the  roads 
being  generally  jioor,  and  for  a  part  of  the 
way,  at  least,  non-existent,  (irandfather  l'"ish 
(lied  only  three  years  after  settling  there, 
lliswife,  surviving  him,  liveil   to  the  age  of 


eighty-six  years.  Her  maiden  name  was 
Sophia  Childs.  .She  was  a  native  of  Maine, 
and  belonge  1  to  a  prominent  family  of  that 
State.  All  the  children  are  now  deceased, 
the  daughter,  I'lsther,  having  lived  but  a  short 
time  after  their  settlement  on  the  Miramichi. 
Iliram,  who  died  at  the  age  of  about  thirty- 
eight  years,  was  i)y  ociiip.ition  a  tanner  and 
currier. 

James  l""isb,  the  other  son,  was  reared  to 
manhood  in  Miraniiilii.  Working  in  the 
wooils  witii  his  father,  he  acc|uired  a  practical 
knowledge  of  lumbering,  and  subsequently 
engaged  in  business  on  his  own  account,  being 
at  one  time  one  of  the  most  extensive  shippers 
of  lumbei-  in  Newcastle.  He  also  had  a 
large  farm,  wliicli  be  conducted  successfully, 
and  l)y  his  enterprise  and  industry  accumu- 
lated a  large  property.  It  is  related  to  his 
credit  that  at  an  e.irly  age  he  assisted  largely 
in  supporting  his  widowed  motiicr.  He  was 
married  in  1844  to  Miss  l''.li/abcth  McAllister, 
a  native  of  New  Hrunswick  and  daughter  of 
John  McAllister,  who  came  from  lulinburgh, 
Scotland,  about  1818,  settling  in  Doaktown. 
Mrs.  I'"ish's  father  was  a  man  of  more  than 
ordinary  intelligence.  He  conducted  a  card- 
ing-mill  and  grist-mill,  besides  being  engaged 
in  farming  and  lumbering.  Her  mother,  who 
was  in  maidenhood  a  Miss  Ogilvie,  of  l'".din- 
burgh,    came    of    a    prominent    IJnmf'  ire 

family.      James    bish    was    for   m.H 
magistrate.       He    was    :< 
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diildrcn,  of  wliom  four  -Howard,  Ksther, 
I'rank,  and  Mary  died  in  childhoixl,  and 
one  son,  Hiram  A.,  a  physieian,  died  in  Jan- 
uary, iX(j7.  'I'lu'  survivors  are  as  follows: 
James  (). ,  wiio  is  a  farmer  and  lunihernian  of 
New  Castle;  William  l-*.,  a  civil  en};incer  and 
deputy  crown  land  surveyor;  Charles  IC,  the 
special  subject  of  this  sketch;  Jane  ICIizaheth, 
and  Sophia  Childs,  ol  New  Castle;  and  I'",. 
Clifford,  a  physician  practising  in  Melrose, 
Mass. 

Charles  K.  l""ish  received  his  education  at 
Ilarkins  Academy.  After  le.iving  school  he 
foimd  employment  with  his  father  in  the  li.in- 
her  business,  remaining  with  him  until  1885. 
I!e  then  purchased  a  stone  cpiarry  on  the  Miri- 
machi  River,  which  produces  a  fine  cpiality 
of  greenish  olive  sandstone,  and  which  is 
nientidiied  in  the  ^overnnient  reports  at 
Ottawa  as  beinj;  the  largest  deposit  of  sand- 
stone in  the  Maritime  Provinces.  It  has  en- 
tered into  the  construction  f.i  some  of  the 
finest  huildinj;s  in  Canada,  amont;  them  the 
new  city  hall  at  Hamilton,  Ont. ;  the  I.ant;- 
win  Block  and  the  new  Departmental  lUiild- 
ing  at  Ottawa;  the  Mclntyre  residence  at 
Montreal;  the  residence  of  James  Ross,  the 
street  railway  magnate,  at  Montreal;  St. 
James  Street  Methodist  Church,  Montreal; 
the  Joyce  Muilding,  Montreal;  the  I'ost-office 
lUiilding  at  Krascrville,  Uuebec;  the  post- 
olTice  at  New  Castle  and  that  at  Chatham, 
N.  M.  ;  the  Roman  Catholic  church  at  Nelson; 
and  St.  Dunstan's  Cathedral  at  Charlottetown, 
1'.  1^.  I.,  besides  many  others.  Another  v)f 
Mr.  Fish's  quarries  jiroduces  a  stone  particu- 


larly well  adiipted  to  the  grimling  of  wood 
pulp.  Mr.  I'"ish  represented  the  town  of  New 
Castle  in  the  County  Council  for  two  years. 
He  also  served  ten  years  as  Assessor.  He 
was  elected  to  the  Provincial  I'arl lament  in  the 
general  election  of  1899,  and  was  one  of  the 
Aldermen  to  the  first  town  Council.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  order,  the  Independent 
Order  of  I'"oresters,  ami  the  Ancii'iit  Order  of 
United  Workmen. 

Mr.  I'Msh  was  married  in  1882  to  Miss 
Annie  !•:.  Willanl,  a  daughter  of  Oliver  Will- 
ard,  of  Chi-rryfield,  Me.  Mrs.  Fish's  mother, 
whose  maiden  name  was  I'^li/a  I'atton,  was  a 
descendant  of  an  old  Loyalist  family  who  set- 
tled in  the  Annajxilis  Valley,  Nova  Scotia. 
I'"ive  of  the  seven  children  born  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  I*'ish  are  now  living;  namely,  Iras  A., 
Sada  1'.,  Mildre<l  A,,  I'rancis  W.,  and  Ruth 
I'\  Cecil  W.  died  in  infancy,  and  Bryant  at 
the  age  of  five  ye.irs. 


IjIDWAKI)   HATl'.S,   a  i)rominent   contrac- 

J lor  and   builder,  St.  John,  was  born 

in  Clifton,  Kings  County,  N.  H.,  April  8, 
1856,  son  of  Joseph  and  Julia  (Neil)  Hates. 
His  father  was  a  native  )f  County  We.vford, 
Ireland,  and  of  luiglish  descent.  He  emi- 
grated in  1S51,  and  settling  in  Clifton,  Kings 
County,  N.H.,  followed  the  occupation  of  a 
shipsmith  for  twenty-five  years,  and  for  five 
years  carried  the  mail  from  Clifton  to  Land's 
End.  His  wife,  whom  he  manied  in  the  old 
country  in  184S,  became  the  mother  of  seven 
chiltlren,  three  of  whom   are   living,    namely: 


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Catherine,  who  nianicil  John  V.  Miinson,  of 
New  Hampshire;  lulwanl,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  and  Julia,  who  is  the  wife  of  Williain 
Crozier,  of  ]?oston,  Mass.  'I'he  others  were: 
IJzzic,  who  Was  the  wife  of  Alexander  I"'leet; 
Joseph,  who  died  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years; 
William,  who  was  lost  at  sea;  anti  Ambrose, 
who  died  at  the  age  of  four.  The  father,  who 
spent  the  last  seventeen  years  of  his  life  with 
his  ison,  died  August  14,  i8y8,  and  the 
mother  died  in  iSSi. 

At  the  age  of  fourteen  Edward  Hates  was  ap- 
prenticed for  four  years  to  K.  M.  Wetmore  to 
learn  the  carpenter's  trade.  Having  mastered 
the  craft,  tor  the  next  two  years  he  worked  as 
a  journeyman  for  the  late  William  L.  Trince, 
of  St.  John,  and  at  the  exi)iration  of  that  time 
became  foreman,  which  jiosition  he  held  for 
ten  years.  He  then  established  a  business  of 
his  own.  111.'  has  won  a  high  reputation  as  a 
reliabli;  builder,  and  now  emplovs  from 
twcMty-five  to  thirty  inen.  Among  his  exten- 
sive cor  structions,  some  of  the  more  prominent 
are:  the  Union  Club-house,  St.  John;  Mac- 
CauUy  Hrothers'  building  on  King  Street; 
the  residence  of  Dr.  W.  W.  White:  Holy 
Trinity  Church :  the  lunatic  Asylum  annex: 
the  remodel li.ig  of  Manchester,  Robertson 
&  Allison's  store;  the  rectory  of  I'ather  Don- 
ovan at  Carleton;  the  residenc;  of  Dr. 
Mc(ree;  the  remodelling  of  St.  Jolr  (stone) 
Church;  and  the  Cliff  Street  Convent  School. 

On  May  26,  1.SS2,  Mr.  IJates  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Miss  Mitilda  J.  Mcl-'adden, 
daughter  of  the  l.Ue  John  Mci-adden,  of  St. 
John.      Mr.  and  .Mrs.  Mates  have  had  six  chil- 


dren, four  of  whom  are  living;  namely,  I'Mna 
I\Fay,  lulward  Raymond,  Catherine  Carl  .'ton, 
aid  John  IVIch'adden  Hates.  A  dauj.:hter, 
Julia  I'-vcline,  died  at  the  age  of  four  years 
and  six  months,  ami  Hazel  Rebecca  ilied  at 
fourteen  months. 

Mr.   Hates    is  a   Scottish   Rite  Mason,    and 
belongs  to  the  Royal  Arch  Chapter. 


AMi;S  RL'SSl'.l.l.  CL'RRIh;,  princi- 
pal and  proiirietor  of  the  Ciurie  liusi- 
ness  University,  .St.  John,  \.H.,  is  the 
soil  of  I.auchlin  Cmrie.  I'^sc).,  builder,  of 
I'rince  I'xhvard  Island,  and  was  born  h'ebruary 
6.  iSfjj,  at  Montague  Hridge,  V.V.A.  He  was 
educated  at  the  jiublic  schoids  of  .St.  John, 
N.  U.  After  comideting  his  studies  he  entered 
the  crockery  establishment  of  W.  H.  Ilayward, 
.St.  J''hn,  in  wiiich  he  was  employed  for  about 
nineteen  years.  During  the  greater  jiart  of 
this  time  he  conducted  an  evening  school  for 
students  in  l)oi)k-kee|)ing  and  penmanship. 
Subse(|uently  business  in  this  line  increased  to 
such  an  extent  tliat  he  abandoned  his  (ither  ])o- 
sition,  and  in  iSy^;  founded  what  is  now  known 
as  the  Currie  Husiness  L'nivcrsity.  (iootl  suc- 
cess attended  his  venture,  and  this  institution 
is  now  known  from  one  end  of  the  Maiitime 
I'ldvinces  to  the  other  as  being  effieient  in 
every  bianch,  giving  the  most  practical  train 
ing  to  its  pupils. 

In  religion  Mr.  C'uirie  is  a  Haptist;  in  poli- 
tics a  Liberal.  He  was  mariied  .Sejitember  4, 
iS()j,  til  .\nnie  A.  .'-'ullu'rland,  daughter  of 
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Ilis  family  consists  of  two  <Iaii<;htcrs,  AikIilv 
I.s:il)cl  and  Mahul  lilanclic.  Mrs.  Curric  died 
January  25,  1899. 


VnU/lLLIAM    WILKINSON,     of    Bush- 

y^\^      villc,       Chatiiam,      N.B.,      present 

Judj^c  of   the   C'oimty  fourts  of    Nortluind)er- 

land,    Gloucester,    and    Restigouche    Counties, 

was    born    in     Liverpool,    Lji-land,    February 

II,    1826.      His  parents,   John  and    Catherine 
Wilkinson,   are   now  deceased.      He    came    to 
New    lirunswick   in    1840,    arriving    ;,t     Chat- 
ham on   September  11,  after  a  h^ng  passage  of 
forty-nine  days.       I'his  step  was  taken  on   the 
advice  and  encouragement   of  his  half-brother, 
the    late  J.nics  John.son,    who   had   arrived    in 
this  country   many  years   jMeviously,  and  who 
hati  then  lately  entered  into  business  as  a  mcr- 
cliant  on  his  own  account.      He  remained  with 
his   brother   as   ajjprcntice   and   clerk    for    two 
year.s.      Then,  with  the  sanction  and  good  will 
of  all  friends,  he  entered  the   law  office  of  the 
late   Hon.   John   M.  Johnson,  Jr.,  as  a  law  stu- 
dent, and  was  entereil  as   such    in    Michaelmas 
term,   1842.      In  the  same   term  of   1847,  hav- 
ing satisfactorily  ])assed  the  necessary  cvmi- 
nation  as  to  his   fitness,  he  was  dily  sworn  in 
and   eniolled   as    an    atlorney    of   tlvi    Sui>reme 
Court  of  New  Jirunswick,  and  also  received  his 
commission    to    act    as    Notary    I'nblic.        In 
Michaelmas  term,   1S49,  he  was  duly  callcil  to 
th.  bar.      {'"or  a   few  years  after  his  admi.s.sion 
he  practised  alone;   but  on  December  20,  1852, 
he  entereil  into  partn.'i.shiji  with   the   late  John 
M.  Johnson,  Jr.,    which  partnership   lasted   up 


to  the  time  of  the  death  of  Mr.  Johnson,  in 
November,  1S68.  Dining  its  continuance 
they  were  engaged  in  many  very  importimt 
ca.scs,  and  always  had  the  reputation  of  being 
very  careful,  successful  practiti()ner.s. 

Mr.  Wilkinson's  first  governmental  oflice 
was  that  of  Surrogate  Judge  of  Probate  for  the 
county  of  Northumberland,  which  was  resigned 
by  the  late  Hon.  Thomas  II.  Peters,  on  July  8, 
185 1.  This  Mr.  Wilkin.s(jn  resigned  in  the 
spring  or  summer  of  1870,  with  the  view  of 
becoming  a  candidate  for  the  New  Hrunswick 
Legislature;  and  it  may  be  mentiom-d  t'i  t  dur- 
ing all  the  time  that  Mr.  Wilkinson  held  the 
office  no  apiie.J  was  ever  made  from  any  deci- 
sion or  judgment  made  by  him  in  any  cause 
before  him. 

In  the  spring  or  summer  of   1S52  Mr.  Wil- 
kinson   was  appointed    (under  the  first  educa- 
tional   act    of     New    Brunswick     authorizing 
inspectors,     ])asse(l     in     the     |)rcvious    winter) 
inspector  of  schools   for  his  county,  Nortlunu- 
berland.      This  office  he  held  for  several  year.s, 
until,  fearing  that   the   increasing  professional 
demands  on  his  time  and  attention   might   in- 
duce a  less  careful   and   thorough   performance 
of  his  duties  as    inspector,    or  that   the   latter 
might    interfere   with   his   professional   duties, 
he    resigned  the  office   into   the  hands  of  the 
governiuent,    stating    these    reasons.      lUit    his 
resignation  was  much  to  tlie  regret  (jf  the  then 
supciimenuent,    Marijhall   D.    Avary,    who  was 
most  desirous  that  he  .shoukl  continue  in  office 
and  become  a  district   inspector  under  the  new 
act  then  about  to  be  passeil. 

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way, an  officer  fur  examining  and  reporting 
upon  the  titles  of  lands  taken  for  railway  pur- 
jioses  through  tiie  county  ot  Nortlunnheiland, 
and  later,  by  the  railway  authorities,  to  perform 
a  similar  duty  in  regard  to  many  unsettled  and 
disputed  cases  in  the  mljoining  counties  of 
Gloucester  and  Restigouche;  and  at  intervals 
for  several  years  after  his  appointment  as  rail- 
way solicitor  lie  was  ajipointed  one  of  the 
appraisers,  with  one  or  other  of  the  paymasters 
of  the  Intercolonial  Railway,  for  the  time  being 
to  apiuaise  and  (after  the  preparation  and  exe- 
cution of  the  projier  transfer  of  title)  ])ay  the 
land  damages  foi  the  rights  of  way,  water 
courses,  and  conduits  taken  for  railway  pur- 
poses throughout  all  these  counties. 

In  the  fall  of  1X72  ho  was  appointed  by  the 
Dominion  government,  on  the  resignation  of 
John  <"i.  (I.  Layton,  Immigration  i\gent  for 
Northumberland.  This  office  he  had  held  for 
a  few  years,  when,  on  a  change  of  government, 
a  new  jiolicy  in  regard  to  immigration  was  in- 
augurated, lint  on  the  cessation  of  the  office 
courteous  and  full  acknowledgment  was  made  by 
the  then  government  of  the  aljility  aiul  zeal 
with  which  the  duties  had  been  performed. 

On  April  J,  iS/i,  lie  was  a|)|iointetl  by  the 
Dominion  government  one  of  Her  Majesty's 
Counsel  Learned  in  tlie  Law.  ( )n  March  6, 
1S77,  he  was  appointed,  by  the  Vicc-admi- 
ralt\'  C'durt,  Surroi;ate  of  the  Vice-aomiralty 
Court  of  New  Urunswick  ;  and  on  March  11, 
1S81,  on  the  resignation  of  Judge  Williston, 
he  receixed  the  ap|)ointment  of  Judge  of  the 
County  Courts  of  Northumberland,  Gloucester, 


and  Restigouche.  On  the  next  day  he  was 
duly  sworn  in,  and  held  his  first  county  court 
at  Uathurst,  Gloucester  County. 

On  I'ebruary  12,  1884,  he  was  rx  officio  ap- 
pointed hrst  commissioner  under  the  litpior 
license  act  of  1883  for  the  several  license  dis- 
tricts of  Northumberland,  (ilouccster,  and  Res- 
tigouche, and  held  the  same  until  the  decision 
of  the  I'rivy  Council  declared  the  act  nitm 
vires.  On  October  26,  1885,  he  was  ap- 
pointed, under  separate  commissions,  the  revis- 
ing officer  of  the  electoral  districts  of  the 
counties  of  Northumi)erland  and  Restigouche 
resjiectively,  under  t'ne  electoral  franchise  act 
passed  in  1884. 

Judge  Wilkinson  is  a  member  of  the  Church 
of  Lnglaud,  and  f(Ji-  thirty  years,  without  a 
break,  he  was  the  vestry  clerk  of  tiie  church, 
corporation  in  Ciialliam,  where  he  has  always 
liveil,  and  only  resigned  the  office  a  few  years 
ago,  because  of  his  necessarily  frequent  absence 
from  home  to  fill  judicial  app(jintments.  h'or 
a  like  peiiod,  with  ver\-  rate  exceptions,  he  lias 
been  a  delegate  to  the  Diocesan  C'hurcii  .Soci- 
ety ;uid  to  the  Diocesan  Synod  at  and  ever 
since  its  forn^atinn;  and  on  several  occasions 
he  has  been  elected  by  the  Diocesan  to  the 
l'i'o\  incial  .Syudd.  At  tiie  fdrniation  of  the 
Diocesan  he  stroiigl)'  es|ioiised  the  necessity 
of  the  bishop's  concurrence  in  all  acts  of  the 
.synod,  so  in  the  I'rovincial  .Synod  he  was  witii 
those  wiio  held  and  voted  that  tiie  House  of 
Bishops  should  have  a  veto  power  on  a'.,  nomi- 
nations to  the  episcopate,  both  of  which  views, 
though  not  without  mucli  oppusitioii,  ulti- 
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On  St.  James  Day,  1S50,  Judge  Wilkinson 
was  married  to  VM/.a  Lovibond,  only  child  of 
the  late  Kit.  Sanuie!  ]iacon,  D.  K.  (the  first 
rector  of  Chatham,  and  who  continued  such  for 
the  long  i)eriod  of  forty-seven  years,  dying  at 
his  post,  I'ebruary  16,  iSCxj),  a  grand-daughter 
of  the  celebrated  sculi)tor,  the  elder  John 
Bacon. 

Judge  and  Mr.s.  Wilkinson  are  the  parents 
of  si.\  children,  of  whom  three  are  now  living: 
Kliza  Bacon,  wife  of  John  P.  Burchill,  M.V.V.  ; 
the  Rev.  Willi;,m  James  Wilkinson,  H.  D., 
rector  of  Bay  du  \'in;  and  .Mary  Ivlith,  the 
wife  of  William  K.  liutler,  M.I. CI':.,  pro- 
fessor of  mathematics  and  engineering  at 
Royal  Military  College,  Kingston,  Ont. 


OSI'.l'H  B.  HAMM,  the  well-known 
liveryman  of  St.  John  and  a  former 
member  ol  the  Board  of  Aldermen  of 
the  city,  was  born  at  Grand  Bay,  Kings 
County,  N.  B.,  June  S,  1S30,  son  of  Captain 
David  and  Sarah  (Brittian)  Ilamm.  He  is 
of  German  origin  and  a  descendant  of  Charles 
llamm,  who  with  his  wife  emigrated  to 
America  prior  to  the  Revolutionary  War  and 
settled  in  Jersey  City,  N.J.  At  the  breaking 
out  of  hostilities  Charles  llannn  joined  the 
Royal  army,  and  after  the  close  of  the  war  he 
came  with  other  Loyalists  to  New  Brunswick. 
Locating  ujioii  a  grant  of  land  at  Gnnid  Hay, 
near  Westfield,  he  cleareil  a  good  farm,  which 
he  occupied  for  the  rest  n(  his  life.  Ills 
children  were:  Cb.irles  and  Barbara,  who 
were  born   in  the  States;   Mathias;    Andrew; 


George;    Malachi;     David;    Julia;    and    Mar- 
garet. 

Captain  David  Hamm,  sixth  .son  of  Charles, 
was  a  native  of  Grand  Bay,  where  he  followed 
general  farming  during  his  active  yc-rs,  and 
also  ran  a  grist-mill.  He  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Captain  Joseph  Brittian,  of 
Kingston,  N.B.,  and  she  became  the  mother 
of  five  children;  namely,  James  K.,  Kliza- 
beth,  David,  Jo.seph  B.,  and  Mathias.  Cap- 
tain Ilamm's  death  occurred  in  1882,  and  was 
caused  by  an  accident  while  working  in  his 
mill. 

Joseph  B.  Hamm,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
resided  at  the  paternal  homestead  until  he 
was  twenty-four  years  old,  when  he  estab- 
lished himself  as  a  horse  dealer  at  Indian- 
town.  In  1856  he  moved  Into  the  city  of  St. 
John,  and,  engaging  i.i  the  livery  business, 
has  followed  it  continuously  to  the  present 
time.  He  also  buys  and  sells  horses,  and  is 
considered  a  reliable  dealer. 

In  1855  Mr.  Hamm  married  for  his  first 
wife  Barbara,  daughter  of  iNIathias  Hamm,  of 
(irand  Bay.  She  died  in  1875.  In  1870  he 
married  for  his  second  wife  Miss  Annie 
Currie,  daughter  of  William  Currie,  of  Sun- 
bury  County.  Mr.  Hamm  is  the  father  of 
three  children  by  his  first  union,  namely: 
A.  (i.  Hamm,  who  is  engaged  with  him  in  busi- 
ness; Ada,  widow  of  William  Dennison,  late 
of  Kings  County;  and  William,  who  is  now 
in  Oregon. 

In  1876  Mr.  Hamm  was  elected  from  Wel- 
lington Ward  to  the  City  Council,  in  which  he 
served   three   years,    and   w:is   then   appointed 


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Inspector  of  Coal,  serving  in  tliat  ca|)acity 
until  tlie  office  was  abolished.  Elected  from 
King's  Ward  to  tiie  Hoard  of  Aldermen  in 
1S95,  he  sorvetl  in  that  body  until  the  sjiring 
of  1.S99. 

'R1':1)  SAXDAI.I..  chamberlain  and 
s  Treasurer  of  St.  John,  IV.  H. ,  has  l)een 
connected  with  the  niunicipa!  government  in 
this  capacity  for  over  a  score  of  years,  and  has 
proved  himsell'  a  most  capable  and  tiiistworth)- 
|)ublic  (itTicial.  lie  was  boin  in  St.  John, 
Decendicr  29,  1S45,  and  was  educated  there. 
Having  completed  the  courses  in  the  granmiar 
school,  he  prepared  for  cidlegc,  and  then 
changing  his  jjlans  he  gave  up  further  study, 
and  for  a  few  years  was  employed  in  a  trans- 
portation, ex[)ress,  and  shipping  business  as  a 
cleik. 

In  1S77  he  was  made  a  supernumerary  iderk 
in  the  City  Chaml)erhiin's  office,  in  1S79  he 
was  appointed  clerk,  and  in  i.SSo  became 
Chamberlain,  a  jmsition  which  he  lias  contin- 
uously filleil  until  the  iiresent  time.  Under 
his  able  administration  the  office  woik  ha.'--, 
been  carried  on  willuiut  fiiction.  and  the  many 
important  changes  which  he  has  made  in  the 
entire  system  have  met  with  general  ajiproNal. 

Mr.  Sandall  and  .Antoinette  Duffell,  daugh- 
ter of  William  I^uffell,  of  .St.  John,  were  mar- 
ried in  i.SSi,  and  tliey  have  two  children.  lie 
is  a  thirty-seconil  degree  Mason,  and  has  held 
all  the  chaiis  in  the  l?lue  Lodge  and  Royal 
Arch  cliaiJters.  He  is  also  a  membc'  of  the 
Knights  of  I'ythias,  and  is  I'.  C.  of  his  lodge. 
He  is  a  niendjer  of  llie  C'luuch  of  ICn^land. 


IIARI.KS  II.  rKTERS,  wholesale  gro- 
cer, St.  John,  was  born  in  this  city  in 
1S62,  son  of  Charles  H.  and  Han- 
nah (Slip)  Peters.  His  father  was  born  in 
IIami)stead,  N.l?.,  in  1S23,  and  assisted  on  the 
home  farm  imtil  reaching  his  majority.  He 
then  went  to  Gagetown,  where  he  purchased  a 
tannery,  which  he  carried  on  for  si.\  or  seven 
years.  Selling  out  he  came  to  St.  John,  and, 
purchasing  the  tannery  of  lulward  Hensoi  con- 
ducted it  for  til''  rest  of  his  life.  In  coiniec- 
tion  with  this  he  engaged  extensively  in  the 
feed  business,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  1S95,  had  acquired  a  compe- 
tency. He  was  a  nicmber  of  the  Baptist 
church.  His  wife,  Hannah,  who  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  George  .Sli]),  became  the  mother  of  eight 
children;  namely,  Albert,  William,  Jr.,  John, 
I'klwin,  h'rederick  A.,  Lillie,  Charles  II.,  and 
P'rank  I,.  Albert  Peters  is  a  trimk  manufac- 
tiuer  in  .St.  Joim.  John  is  engaged  in  the  feed 
business.  I.illie  married  James  T.  Logan, 
and  resides  in  this  city,  and  P'rank  L.  is  a 
tanner.      The  mother  died  in  iiSSj. 

.\fter  completing  his  education  in  the  pid)- 
lic  schools  of  St.  John,  Charles  II.  Peters 
became  a  clerk  in  the  wlKilesale  grocery  store 
of  Harding  &  Hatheway,  remaining  with  them 
eight  years.  In  iSSf)  he  formed  a  [lartnersbip 
with  John  II.  Baird,  estahlisliing  what  is  now 
the  well-known  grocei\'  hmise  of  Baird  & 
Peters,  and  built  u|)  a  large  and  profitable 
business.  This  linn  continued  until  the  death 
of  Mr.  Baird  in  1S92,  since  which  time  the 
surviving  ]iartner  has  carried  on  the  business 
alone,  retaining  the  old  firm  name. 


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In  iS.Sg  Mr.  rcteis  was  united  in  niarriaf,^' 
with  Miss  I'"aiinic  L.  I'^Ilis,  a  native  of  New 
Yiiik,  (laii.nlUer  ni  'I'lidnias  I'lllis,  now  of  St. 
John. 

Mr.  Peters  is  a  nienilier  of  tlie  Kiii.t^hts  of 
Pythia.s. 

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|II.\RLi;.S      .SI.OCCIITT       lAVLOK, 

I  larlior  Master,  St.  Jolm,  was  horn  in 
Weymouth,  N.S. ,  I'ehruary  Ji, 
liSji,  .son  of  Morris  Leonard  and  Mary  Aliee 
(Lee)  Taylor.  Mis  ^Mandfather,  John  Tavlor, 
who  was  a  nati\e  of  New  Jerse\-  and  a  Loyal- 
ist, after  serviiij;  as  a  C'a|itain  in  the  ISritish 
army  during  the  Revolulionar\-  W'ai',  received 
from  the  -government  a  pension  and  a  ijrant  of 
land  in  Nova  -Scotia,  located  in  what  is  now 
the  town  of  Weymouth.  lie  took  with  him  to 
Nova  Scotia  several  sla\-es,  and  kept  them  till 
they  dietl  or  were  emancipated,  lie  married 
Kleanor  Taylor,  and  had  five  children,  three 
sons  and  two  daughters,  of  whom  Morris  L. 
was  the  younL;cst  chilil. 

Morris  Leonard  '{"aylor  was  horn  at  the 
homestead  in  Weymoutli.  The  latter  pait  of 
his  life  was  devoted  to  :i^ricultural  pursuits. 
lie  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight  \ears,  and 
his  wife,  ;\Iary  .Mice,  lived  to  he  eighty-live.  | 
They  were  the  ])arents  of  nine  children,  in 
eluding  Charles  .S. ,  all  of  whom  grew  to  ma- 
turit)-.  Mrs.  Taylor  was  a  daughter  of  Hcnja- 
min  Lee,  a  Loyalist  wlio  went  from  Comiecti- 
eut  to  Nova  Scotia. 

Charles  .S.  'l'a\lor  in  his  vouth  was  appren- 
ticed for  five  }ears  to  a  pilot  on  the  Hay  of 
Fundy,  anil  when  his   term   was  completetl   he 


entered  the  regular  service.  I'"(ir  twenty  years 
he  piloted  vessels  in  and  (.ut  of  St.  John  with- 
out a  single  mishap,  which,  considering  the 
dense  fogs  and  the  great  velocity  of  the  tides 
in  this  region,  is  a  record  to  he  |)r(niil  of.  In 
I.S74  he  was  apiiointed  Harhor  Master,  and  he 
has  filled  that  position  with  marked  ahility 
continually  to' the  present  time. 

In  1S59  Mr.  Tayhu- was  uniteo  in  marriage 
with  Miss  Margaret  Mantell,  of  St.  lohn, 
daughter  of  Charles  Mantell,  a  native  of  Lon- 
don, luigland.  They  have  had  five  children, 
namely:  Charles  ]•:.,  a  resident  of  San  h'ran- 
cisco,  Cal.  ;  liyron  Ciordon,  who  died  Octoher 
I,  I.S95;  William  llemy,  who  resides  in  King- 
man, ]\Ie.  ;  I'juma  L.,  wife  of  R.  P.  McGivern, 
formerly  of  this  city;  and  Ve.sta  AllLson 
Tavlor. 

Mr.  Taylor  and  family  ,ue  mendjcrs  of  the 
Church  <if  I'jigland,  and  attend  the  Stone 
Church,  as  it  is  commonly  called.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Conservative. 


(^OSHPII  HL.XCK  MLNSON,  M.l)., 
physician  and  surgeon,  a  leading  med- 
ical iiractitioner  of  Chatham,  N.H.,  was 
horn  on  January  11,  i,S54,  in  the  house  where 
he  now  resides,  being  the  lourth  son  of  Dr. 
Stafford  Henson,  who  settled  in  Chatham  in 
1S31,  having  come  from  Devonshire,  Juigland, 
and  wiio  in  i.S:;5  married  Sophia  hllizaheth, 
dauglitcr  of  Michael  Samuel,  I^sip,  liuuher 
merchant  of  that  town.  His  early  educational 
training  was  received  in  the  grammar  school  in 
Chatham  and  in  the  collegiate  .sehon]  at  Fred- 


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(.•lit'tiiii.  Ills  pidlcssidiKil  studio  wiTL'  purMK'd 
at  MiCiill  IJnivi'isity,  Mcintrcal  ;  and  lie  ic- 
ccivcd  tlu' (l(.'i,'icc  i.f  M.1),,C'.M,  trnni  thai  in 
stitiitiiin  in  March,  1S75,  liavinj^^  received  Ihc 
prize  for  botany  in  his  tirst  \ear,  also  the  final 
])iize.  He  settled  for  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion in  (hathani,  and  has  since  pnrsiied  it  snc- 
cessfiilK'.  1 1  is  patients  ha\e  found  in  him  not 
onlv  professional  skill,  Init,  what  is  often  (piite 
as  valuable  in  a  physician,  the  s\nipatli)' which 
s])rings  fiiim  a  l<indl\'  heart,  lie  coniiiiands 
the  cordial  respect  of  the  j^eneral  public,  and 
also  of  his  fellow-physicians.  lie  is  a  iiieni- 
her  of  the  Uritish  Medical  Association,  ilis 
reli,nioiis  beliefs  are  voiced  in  the  creed  of  the 
Church  of  lMi};land.  The  Doctor  was  the  first 
.Ma\(ir  of  Chatham,  elecleil  in  June,  iSyf). 
While  hiddiny  tliat  positi(  n,  he  had  about  one 
thousand  medals  struck  off  for  presentation  to 
the  children  of  the  public  schools  in  com 
iiK'nioralion  of  the  (jueen's  Diamond  Jubilee. 


()I1\  \VH,ia;R,  a  venerable  and  hi-hly 
respected  cili/en  of  llar\(.'y,  Albert 
Coinit\',  N.H.,  is  passini;  the  declining" 
years  of  bis  loni;-  life  free  from  'uisiiK'ss  c.iri's. 
.\  son  of  .Samuel  Wilbur,  he  was  born  Decem- 
ber 4,  1S05,  in  Pembroke,  Me.  \'er\  little  of 
his  jincestral  history  has  been  ri'cordcd.  It  is 
known,  howe\er,  that  his  grandfather  Wilbur 
came  to  New  Ibiniswick  from  the  L'nited 
States  in  the  latter  luilf  of  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tuiy,  l)rinj.;in^'  with  him  three  s(nis  and  one 
(laughter  -  David,  .Samuel,  Henjaniin,  and 
Mary  —  and  located  liist   on    the   banks  of  the 


I'etitcodiac  River,  and  that  he  tilled  the  soil 
in  that  locality  for  a  tinu',  but  (inallv  reino\ed 
to  llarve),  then  called  .Shepody,  where  he  con- 
tinued his  af^ricLiltiual  labors  until  his  death. 

Samuel  Wilbur  was  but  a  boy  when  he  came 
from  the  Ignited  States  with  his  father's  fam- 
ily to  Ibis  provinci.'.  lie  was  a  lifelong-  agri- 
i  iiltmist,  and  In  his  sturdy  industiv  and  able 
managemenl  met  with  fair  success  in  his  oper- 
ations. \.  .iile  \v\  in  the  prime  of  life  he  set- 
lleil  permanently  in  Harvey,  N.H.,  where  he 
died  at  a  good  old  age.  He  was  twice  married  ; 
and  b\'  his  tirst  wife,  before  marriage  a  Miss 
Stiles,  he  had  eight  children,  none  of  whom 
are  living.  He  subseipiently  married  Rena 
Hunt,  daughter  of  (iamaliel  limit,  of  Xo\a 
Scotia;  and  of  their  two  children  John,  t!ie 
special  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  the  onl\-  sur- 
vi\'or. 

John  Wilbur  received  his  education  in  the 
public  schoids  of  llarve\',  N'.H.,  and  began  his 
active  career  as  a  f.irnu'r  in  that  town.  He 
afterward  followed  the  st'a  for  a  lew  years, 
being  engaged  principally  in  the  coasting 
tr;ule,  allhougli  he  niade  one  voyagi'  to  the 
West  Indies.  (ii\ing  up  seafaring  when  a 
com|)arativel\'  young  man,  he  tuiiied  his  atten- 
tion to  shipbuilding,  a  vdcaliim  in  uliich  he 
met  with  suciess;  and  he  is  now,  as  a  residt 
of  his  diligent  and  skilful  labor,  enabled  to 
spend  the  (.losing  days  of  life  in  comfort, 
b'or  a  niunber  of  yeais  lu'  served  as  Constable 
and  as  Colleitor  of  Rates.  In  politics  he  is 
an  lnde[]endenl. 

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tcr,  of  Harvey,  N.  H.  Slu'  died  at  tin;  a^o  of 
sixty-four  years,  Icavin-  no  iliildrcn.  A 
waiiii-liuartt'd,  i)ioad-iniiulc(l,  ^riicroiis  man, 
Mr.  Wilbur  lake-,  deli-lit  in  I'nitirihiit  infr 
toward  wortliy  charitable  causes,  ai.d  is  a  liberal 
^iver  to  the  various  missionary  societies  and 
to  many  benevoleni  institutions,  incliidinj,' 
anion^j  others  one  in  which  lie  is  specially  in- 
terested, the  Asylum  tor  the  Drif  and  i''nil. 
Ife  is  a  Haptist   in  his  religioi:  lef,  :      ... 

his  wife,  and  },'reatly  assists  i 
the  chuich  of  that  dcnoniination. 


"^^/aI.TI'R    I-.    I.I-.OXAKI),  member  < 

\^Y-,      ^'"■'    'ill"    "I     Leonard   Urothers,  fis 


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packers  and  dealers,  St.  John,  Montreal,  and 
(irand  Rivi'r,  !'.(_),,  was  ixjin  in  i.S,^,  son  of 
Joiin  and  Caroline  ((ioidd)  Leonard.  Ik'  is  a 
great-i,^ rand. son  of  Cieor.LCe  Leonard,  a  native  of 
New  \'ork  .State,  who  joined  the  J5ritish  army, 
served  lliiou-h  the  American  Revolution,  and 
became  a  ser,i;eant. 

[n  ;\Iay,  17S3,  (;eor;^e  Leonard  came  with 
the  Loyalists  to  New  Hrimswick,  recei\in<'-  a 
Krant  of  land  in  St.  John.  f.ater  he  settled  on 
Deer  Island,  where  he  engaged  in  the  fishing 
industry,  which  he  ddlowed  many  yeais,  iiviuj^  i  of  this   union 

to  an  advanced  a^'c.       llemarrii'd    \ancv  Lar 

ker,    who    was   also   of   a    Loyalist  family,  auc 

their    children     were:     (;eori;e,    John,     |ames, 

William,    Silas,    Rachel,    Hetsey,   and    Nancy. 

James,   William,    and    Silas   went    to    sea    am 

never    returned     to     New     Urunswick.        .Mrs. 

Nancy  I'.  Leonard  alter  the  death   ol    her  hus- 
band receivetl  a  pcnsicjn  from  the  crown. 


John    Leonard,    grandfather    of     Walter    !•'. 
Leonard,  was  born  in  .St.  John,  and  en^-aj^ed  in 
lishinj,',  millin;.;-,  and  v.irioiis  other  occupations. 
He  married    Ami    Wilson,   dau-liter  of  James 
Wilson,    of   Campobcllo,    and     they    were    the 
pareiils    of    nine    children;     namely,    Jame.s, 
Sarah  ,\nn,  John,  Simeon,  (leorge,  Sarah  Ann, 
second,    I'lli/a,    Harriet   and    Marf,'aret,     twin.s. 
i''"d.    '  Sarah    .\un    died    at    the    age    of    four    years. 
,  :      ...      I  James    (who   was    horn    in     [S\())  and    Simeon 
'P"it   o       now   reside   at    Heer    Island.      (ieorge   died    at 
si.\ty-seven  ye.irs  of  age.      Sarah  Ann,  second, 
is  the  wife-  of  William  Tinker.      VM/.n  married 
a  .Mr.    Welsh.      Harriet   married   Mr.    Conley, 
and  Margaret  liecame  the  wife  of   Mr.    Richard- 
son.      Grandmother     Leonard     died    at    si.\ty- 
seven  vears. 

John     Leonard    was   horn      in     Campohello, 
^'•'^■-    ill   -Apiil,     iS-'.?.      He    was    in    the    fish 
business   previous   to    i.Sdc),    when    he  came  to 
St.  John  and  became    identified  with   the   ship- 
ping   interests.      Some   time  since,  he   retired 
from  active  business.      He  is  a  member  of   the 
Christian  Church.      In    i  ,S4 ;;   he   married   Miss 
Caroline  Could,  who  was  born  on  Deer  Island, 
daughter    of    frank    Could,    a    native    of     the 
Cnited  States.      Seven  children  were  the   fruit 
uul    two    of    them    are    liviii:;, 
namely:  John  I-'.,  who  was   hcuii    in    i.S^i,  and 
is  associated  in   business  with  his  brother;   and 
Walter   L. ,    the   subject   of    this   sketch.      The 
others  were:   Alice,  who  died   young;  Charles 
;   II.,  who  died  in    Ichruary,   i.Scj.S,  aged   thirty- 
'  nine:   Ceoige,  wlio  dii'd    in    Ccdonulo   in   lami- 
:  ary  of  the  same  ye:ir,  at  the  age  of  thirty-eight; 
I  Lucy,  who  died  at   twelve   ve.irs;  and  a  child 


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lluit  (lic'il  in  infiiiKV.  Jului  Li'iiiimkI's  first 
wife  (lii'd  in  iS5i>;  ;n)il  in  1.S65  he  niariit'd  lor 
his  soniiid  wilL-  lunily  Divis,  tlanj;litii  of 
IhililianI  Davis,  cit'  Nnva  Scdtia. 

Walter  I'.  I.conaiil  in  cdinpany  with  his 
Inotiu'is,  juhn  !•'.  and  tlu-  late  Charles  II.,  es- 
tablished their  present  indnstr)-  of  cnriii;;  and 
packing  fisli  in  St.  John,  and  is  ikiw,  with  liis 
siirvivin^f  hrother,  eonduiting  a  lar^e  and 
profitable  business,  the  lirni  havini;  a  branch  in 
Montreal  and  one  also  at  (Irand  l\i\er,  !'.(_>. 
The  bnildinj;  in  wliit'h  the  enterprise  is  carried 
(in  is  eij;hl\  b\  three  hundred  feet,  and  they 
eniplov  about  thirtv  men.  In  their  I'stablish- 
nient  in  Montreal,  located  at  J4  and  26  hound- 
linj,'  .Street,  twelve  men  are  i-n)ployed,  and  at 
Grand  River  are  employed  fourteen  men. 

In  i.SSo  Mr.  Leonard  was  joined  in  marriaf^e 
with  Miss  Sarah  llanuncmd,  dau<;hter  of  John 
Ilamnmnd,  of  .St.  |ohn.  They  ha\e  si.\  chil- 
dren— ^  Walter,  John,  (Jhailes,  Alice,  I^dna 
\'era,  and  ( ieoiye  I'. 


M)Ki;w    I  K.wcis  M,  .\\i;.\m:\', 

I).  D.S.,  of  St.  John,  was  Imrn  in  that 
city  November  6,  1N44,  S(ui  of  h'ran- 
cis  and  h'.Uen  McAvennev,  both  of  whom  were 
natives  of  Ireland.  His  preliminary  studies 
in  the  .St.  John  cimnnun  schools  were  supjile- 
mented  with  a  course  at  .St.  Maiy's  (.'iille;;e, 
Montreal,  I'.  <J. ,  and  he  eomjileted  his  ela.ssieal 
education  at  the  college  of  the  Holy  Cross, 
Worcester,  Mass.  His  professional  studies 
weie  pursued  at  the  Philadelphia  Dental  t'ol- 
lei;e  of   I'hiladelphia,   I'a.,  from  which  he  i;rad- 


uated  in  iSdj.  His  |iraclice  has  been  ion- 
lined  whdlly  to  his  luitive  citv,  wlu're  he  has 
lonj{  enjoyed  a  high  reputation  as  a  skilfid 
dentist,  and  in  point  of  experience  be  is  tne 
oldest  practitioner  in  New  Ihunswick.  Ik- 
was  the  first  president  ul  the  \ew  Ihimswick 
Dental  Society,  and  is  at  the  present  time 
(iccupying  the  executive  chair  of  the  Dental 
C"ouncil.  His  many  excellent  ipialitics  have 
gained  the  esteem  of  all  who  know  him. 

On  September  27,  iSSj,  Dr.  McAvenney 
was  united  in  marriage  with  Mary  !•'..  Waters, 
daughter  of  the  late  Judge  Waters,  of  St.  John. 
Mrs.  Mc.Avenney  died  in  iS(j4,  leaving  one 
son  and  two  daughters. 

I'olitically,  the  Doctor  is  a  Liberal.  In 
bis  religious  belief  he  is  .1  Roman  Catholic. 


(>IL\  1:.  WILSON,  maiuifactmer  of  iron 
and  coppi'r  materials  for  constructing 
buildings,  and  dealer  in  stoves  and 
rauge.s,  was  born  on  Charlotte  Street,  .St.  John, 
in  lSf)2,  son  of  John  ]•;.  and  l';ii/abeth  (\'oung) 
Wilson.  His  parents  were  natives  of  Ireland, 
and  came  in  New  Ihniiswick  wlun  \<imig. 
His  paternal  grandfather  was  (ie(U'ge  Wilson, 
who  resided  in  this  country  for  a  time;  and 
his  maternal  grandfather,  William  \'oung,  who 
emigrated  ahunt  the  year  iSjo,  kept  a  hotel  on 
Charlotte  .Street,  .St.  John,  for  man\'  years,  and 
died  in  1885. 

John  Iv  Wilson,  the  elder,  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  eilucational  work  when  a  young  man, 
and  taught  .school  in  St.  J'llin  until  failing 
health    compelled    him   to  abandon   his    useful 


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calling.  He  was  a  highly  esteemed  citizen  of 
his  clay,  lie  served  in  the  militia,  an'  he- 
longed  to  Alhimi  Lodge,  ]•",  &  A.  M.  lie 
difd  in  i,sr)5.  ']'o  him  and  his  wife,  I'llizabelii, 
three  eiiildren  were  horn,  namely:  IClizrdieth, 
wife  of  W.  ]•;.  f.ise,  of  St.  John;  John  !•;.,  the 
Mihject  of  this  sketch;  and  William,  who  died 
in  ii.iancy.  'J"he  mother  died  in  1 86; ;  and 
the  two  orphans,  ICIizaheth  and  John,  were 
reared  iuul  educated  hy  their  maternal  grand- 
parents. 

jiihn  K.  Wilson  was  educated  in  .St.  John, 
.•md  completed  his  studies  under  tiie  instruc- 
tion of  Mr.  Mills,  His  first  knowledge  of  the 
iron  business  ..vis  ol)tainn',  ;;;  the  employ  of 
A.  G.  Howes,  with  whcnn  he  remained  some 
si. V  or  seven  years,  at  the  end  of  which  period 
he  went  to  the  Crilfith  Cialvanized  Iron  Works; 
and  he  later  sjient  some  time  with  a  copper- 
smith. In  1S85  he  established  himself  in 
business  on  Union  .Street,  and  in  i.Sijo  removed 
to  his  present  (piarters  on  .Sidney  Street,  where 
he  carries  a  ,'ull  line  of  stoves,  ranges,  and 
copper  materials.  lie  employs  thirty-thiee 
men,  and  is  the  most  e.\tcn-^ive  handler  of  gal- 
vanized iron  for  building  :n  the  .Maritime  Prov- 
inces. 

Ir  Oclobcr,  i.SS:;,  Mr.  Wilson  was  joined  in 
mariiage  with  lieatrice  Orr,  a  native  of  St. 
Johii  and  a  daughter  of  Jann's  Orr,  who  wa-; 
also  h(Hii  in  this  city.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilson 
ha\e  ii.ul  live  children,  name',:  Ic  I,n  Harold; 
C.'i:ir,i  \'(jung;  Alice  lie:itrhc;  Ali  Idled;  aiul 
VV';ilter,  who  died  ,it  tin-  .ige  of  one  yciir, 

Mr.  Wilson  represented  Wclliiigt(in  Ward 
in  the  C'.mimon  Council    lor  two  years,  leading  j 


the  poll  in  every  waril  in  the  city,  the  second 
year  elected  by  acclamat'on,  and  declined  to 
accc|)t  a  third  election  cm  account  of  business 
pressure.  He  belongs  to  Albion  Lodge,  V. 
&  A.  .M.  ;  Log  Cabin  Court,  Order  of  h'or- 
esters;  the  Knights  of  Pythias;  the  Ancient 
Order  of  L  nited  Workmen;  :ind  the  Natural 
History  .Society. 


yC/tyil.I.IAM  Hl'XRY  POWMAN,  of 
**'  the  firm  of  Howman  I't  Le  Lacheur, 
contractors  and  builders,  St.  John,  was  born 
on  Ce-  :iin  Street,  August  2,  1S32,  son  of 
John  :iiul  I'.li/:  '-th  (McCoullough)  Powinan. 
John  liowman,  who  was  a  native  of  Devon- 
shire, I'jigland,  emigrated  when  a  young  maii, 
and,  settling  in  St.  John.  w;is  emi)lovcd  for 
some  time  in  driving  the  m;iil  between  St. 
John  and  I'redericton.  His  wile,  Idizabeth, 
who  was  ;i  (kuighter  of  John  R.  McCoullough, 
a  soldier  in  the  Uritish  army,  was  born  in  1797 
in  Cumbciland  Coiintv,  .\o\:i  Scoi  ia.  They 
were  the  jiarents  of  four  children  :  Mary,  wife 
of  Jolm  Rankin,  of  St.  John;  l-di/abcth,  who 
married  (ieorge  I.awson,  and  died,  in  Calif  ■•- 
nia;  John  Richard,  now  a  resident  of  Minne- 
ai.olis.  .Minn.,  where  he  settled  in  1857;  and 
Wi!li;im  Henry,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
John  MownKin  died  in  iS:;^,  and  Mrs.  I'ljza- 
beth  .M.  Jiowni;in  died   in   1892. 

William  Henry  Howman  was  educ.ited  in 
St.  John.  When  si.xtecn  years  old  he  began 
;ni  a])preiiticeship  to  the  c:npenler's  and  house 
joiner's  trade,  with  John  Rankin,  present  Dep- 
uty Sheritf  of   St.  John,  with  wJK.m    he   served 


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five  years,  after  which  lie  worketl  as  a  joiiniey- 
niaii  for  a  similar  period.  He  then  went  to 
Chicago,  where  he  reiiiaiiieil,  however,  hut  six 
months.  ReluniiiiL;'  to  .St.  John  in  iS^S,  lie 
formed  his  jiresent  |)artnershi|)  >vitli  "VIr. 
Le  Laeheur,  and  the\-  have  since  conducted  a 
prosperous  business,  heini;  now  the  oldest  (irni 
in  their  line  in  .St.  John.  Anmnj;  ti'c  many 
buiUlinjrs  (.'rected  by  them  may  ijc  mentioned 
the  \\'iy;;iii  Orphan  Aslyum  (the  one  that 
stood  before  the  fire  of  1S77,  as  well  as  the 
one  wliich  they  erected  afterward  to  take  the 
place  of  the  tirst  destroyed  in  that  catastro- 
phe) ;  the  residence  of  Dr.  llolden;  tlie  build- 
ing of  T.  McAvity  &  Sons'  Jhass  I'ounchy, 
and  tlie  l.awton  Saw  l'"aclor\-. 

Mr.  Howman  was  niairied  Auyust,  iSTu,  to 
Miss  Jane  .Spears,  a  native  of  .St.  John,  and 
daughter  of  John  .Sjiears,  a  branch  jiilot  of  the 
port  of  St.  Jolni.  lie  has  two  chililreii  :  (Icr- 
tiude,  wife  of  C.  A.  l'"isiier;  and  William  11., 
a  resident  of  Hostcju,  Mass.  Mr.  Hownian 
was  for  tliirt\-tive  years  a  mend)er  of  the  h'ire 
Department  of  the  cil\-,  and  for  fouileen  \ears 
was  its  ca])tain.  lie  also  icpresentt'd  the  cit}' 
of  i'orlland  in  the  Council. 


(^^OlIX  W.  Kl'..\Sr,  meicliant  and  ship- 
^•il  '\\'i"-'i.  -"^l'  John,  was  born  in  Studholin, 
^-^  Kiiii;s  Coimty,  N'.H.,  Januarv  10,  iSi3, 
son  of  Kobeit  and  I'llcanoi  (Keirstead)  K  'asl. 
His  patejnal  ^randpa:e!its  wcie  Robert  and 
Ann    (Harris)    Keast,  of  |-ji.i;land. 

Robert   Keast,    second,  the   father,    who   was 
born    in    Cornwall,    I''.nj;land,    in    iSiM,    was  a 


miner  in  the  old  eountiy.  Coming  to  New 
lirunswick  in  1S43,  he  settled  in  Studholm, 
and  then  cleared  a  farm.  In  iS5,S  he  moved 
to  (  hieens  C'ouniw  where  for  a  iiuinhei'  of  years 
he  continued  to  follow  agriculture,  and  is  now 
living  in  retirement.  His  wife,  I'lleanor,  is  a 
native  of  Kings  Count),  and  a  daughter  of 
John  1!.  Kcir>tead.  Her  grandfather  tame 
from  New  \'ork  to  New  liiunswick  with  the 
Loyalists  in  17S3.  .She  has  had  fiftei'U  chil- 
dren, si.\  of  whom  are  living;  namely,  Robert, 
(ieorge,  John  W. ,  A  Hurl  ]■'...  Cornelius,  and 
Hettie  M.  Kobeil  Keast,  third,  lives  in 
Lowell.  Mass.  ;  (ieorge  l;\es  in  Auburn,  Me.  ; 
Albert  i:.  is  a  resident  of  .\lberta,  N.W.T.  ; 
Ciornelius  occii))ies  the  old  homestead  in 
(Jueens  County;  and  Hettie  M.  i.v  the  princi- 
pal of  a  school  at  Red  Deer,  Alberta.  I'hc 
parents  are  members  of  the  liajitist  chuich. 

John  W.  Keast  assisted  on  the  home  farm 
until  he  was  twenty  \ears  old,  when  he  went  to 
sea,  and  in  three  years  became  master  of  a 
small  vessel.  He  later  commanded  the  three- 
masted  scbooiier  "  l-!va  Maud,"  of  which  he 
was  part  owner,  and  for  thirteen  years  made 
voyages  between  the  \\  e.st  Indies,  Xewfoimd- 
land,  and  other  places.  In  iSSS,  011  account 
of  t'v,'  ill-health  (jf  his  wife,  he  abandoned  the 
sea,  and  while  still  retaining  his  ship|)lng  in- 
teivsts,  engaged  in  mcrcanlile  business,  build- 
ing u])  a  ]irosperous  trade.  He  is  a  self-ni.-ule 
man,  and  by  his  industrv  aiul  [n'rseverance  iias 
accumulated  a  competencv. 

Mr.  Keast  has  en  twice  married.  His 
first  wife,  whom  he  wedded  in  iSSi,  was  Miss 
Amanda  S|)ringer,  a  nat've  of   (Jueens  County, 


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iind  a  (laii[;;litcr  "f  the  late  James  Spriiij^ci-. 
She  (lied  in  1S91,  having-  been  the  nintlier  (if 
live  chiUhen.  Three  of  tliese  are  livinj;; 
nanu'ly,  I'lthcl,  Joliii  II.,  and  Rulieit  J.  In 
1892  he  married  for  his  second  wife  Miss 
Abl)ie  I.  R()l)erts(in,  dauL^iiler  of  John  Rol)ert- 
s;in,  of  W'iekliani,  (Jucens  County.  ( )f  this 
union  have  lieen  Ijoin  two  children  Jennie 
and  y\l)hie.  Miss  laiiel  Keast  is  engaged  witii 
her  aunt  in  tcachinjj;  in  the  north-west. 

Mr.  Keast  is  a  meml)er  of  tiie  Independent 
Order  of  I'"oresters,  the  Temple  Honor,  and 
the  Ancient  ( )rder  of  T'oresteis,  and  is  a  lioyal 
{•"orester.  lie  helniij^s  to  the  I.o\al  ()ran<j;e 
Association,  of  St.  John.  In  iSi^c)  lie  was 
elected  Aldernian-at-large  for  the  cit_\'  of  St. 
John,   \.l!. 


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(ffJYAMI'lS  HROWX,  <;eneral  merchant  of 
Newcastle,  Miraniichi,  was  born  in 
I'ortso)-,  ]?anffshire,  Scotland,  on  |"eb- 
ruary  2S,  1S45,  beinj;  a  son  of  James  and  Janet 
(TaNlor)  Hidwn.  1 1  is  father  was  a  j;'rain  niei'- 
chant.  lie  served  an  appienticeship  in  his 
native  town  in  a  ship-chandler)'  establishment 
kept  by  William  McRobbie,  Msq.  In  1X64, 
at  the  ai;e  of  nineteen,  he  emigrated  to  New 
Hrunswick,  locating;  in  .Newcastle,  where  he 
worked  as  clerk  for  a  local  mcrciiant  for  some 
si.\  years.  In  i.S'70  he  established  hi,^  piesent 
business,  which  be  has  successfully  I'onducted 
for  thirty  )ears,  beini;-  n-uv  one  of  the 
oldest  meichants  in  the  town.  lie  has  also 
taken  >ome  part  in  public  af;airs,  ha\inj;' 
served  for  two  \ear.s  as  a  iM.'Uiber  of  the 
County    Council,  one    )ear  as    County     War- 


den, lie  was  at  one  time  a  member  of  the 
.Newcastle  Rifle  Company,  and  also  helonj^ed 
to  the  Newcastle  b'ield  Uattery  of  Artillery, 
lie  is  an  adherent  cjf  the  Tresbyterian  church, 
and  a  b'ree  Mason.      In  pcjlilicshe  is  a  Liberal. 


Ill;  COM.  ISROTIIICRS,  JAMKS  .\ni) 
M  ICI I  .\  I'.I .,  Mia[)  manufacturers,  are 
well-known  and  successful  business  men  of  .St. 
John.  'I'heir  parents,  Dennis  and  Jane 
(Grinith)  Coll,  with  two  childien,  emi,i;rated 
from  County  Tyrone,  Ireland,  their  native 
jilace,  and  settled  in  St.  John  in  ICS42.  Den- 
nis Coll  had  been  foreman  in  a  soap  and  candle 
factory  ])rior  to  coming'  to  New  Hrunswick,  and 
here  he  set  about  establishing  one  for  himself. 
His  factcry,  beiuf;'  ecpiipped  with  the  necessary 
machinery  and  pro\ided  with  a  force  of  e.\|)ert 
workmen,  was  opened  for  business  in  the  follow- 
ing; year,  and  was  the  first  soap  factory  started 
in  St.  John.  When  candles  were  sujierseded 
by  impmved  nielliods  of  illumination  he  ii^ivc 
his  cut  ire  atU'Ul  ion  to  the  production  of  soaj), 
which  he  carried  on  successfull)-  for  the  rest  of 
his  life,  and  was  succeedetl  in  business  by  bis 
sons.  He  died  I'"ebruarv  22,  1S73,  aj^ed 
seventy  years.  He  was  the  father  ol  eight 
children;  namel\,  Bridget,  Ann,  Jane,  .Mar\-, 
John,  James,  Michael,  and  Dennis.  Hridget 
is  the  widow  of  John  Carlyn,  late  of  .St.  John. 
Ann  is  residing  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.  Jane, 
who  also  resides  in  that  city,  is  the  wife  of 
K.  Mt  I'eak.  .Ma'_\  is  no  longer  living.  The 
sons  are  all  residents  of  .St.  John.  The  mother 
died    in  Aiiril,    1884,  aged   sevenly-nine  years. 


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The  ])ari.'i)ts  attciuk'd  St.  Tcti'i's  {IvniiKiii  C'atli- 
olic)    C!liuicl). 

James  C(ill,  who  was  born  in  St,  Joiin  in 
1843,  aci|iiirL'(l  his  education  in  tlic  (dninion 
schools.  After  tlic  completion  uT  iiis  stiiilies 
he  entered  the  eniiiio)'  of  Doherts'  i\:  Mc  lavish, 
with  whom  he  remained  as  a  cleil<  tor  nine 
years.  lie  then  hecanie  associated  with  his 
father;  and  a  few  \ -.'ars  later,  with  his  brother 
jMichael,  sniceeded  to  the  business  as  i)efore 
mentioned.  In  June,  1.S7J,  hi'  mairied  ..An- 
j^usta  iJobeit)',  daiit;hter  of  Owen  Doiieity,  the 
latter  a  native  of  Ireland.  They  have  had  si.\ 
ciiildren,  of  whom  two  are  living— Owen 
Griffin  aiul  luhvard  'ilake  Coll.  Wjien  a  )onth 
Ml'.  James  Coll  took  a  li\el\-  interest  in  ama- 
tein'  theatricals,  and  l)eIonj;eil  to  a  riies|)ian 
orj;anization  known  as  the  .St.  John  Dramatic 
Club. 

Micliael  Coll  was  born  in  St.  John  in  1S44. 
After  finishing;'  iiis  education  he  became  Imok- 
koeper  for  II.  and  II.  A.  McCulloui;h.  In 
i.SVhS  lie  entcieil  the  employ  of  hi.^  father,  with 
whom  he  remained  until  ilie  f.irmer's  death. 
The  piesent  (iiin  was  then  or^ani/ed,  and  is 
now  carrying  on  the  laigcst  scjap  manufactory 
in  the  city. 

( )n  J.innai)'  1,  1874.  Mr.  Micliael  Coll  mar- 
ried Margaiet  Jose])hine  J )elancy,  diughter  of 
Morris  an<l  Margaret  ])elanev,  who  ;ame  from 
Wexford,  Ireland.  (  M'  tliis  iinicin  tliere  are 
nine  children;  namelv,  Anna,  b'rank,  Louis, 
Morris,  Margaret,  Mar\-,  (ierakline,  W'inni- 
fred,  and  Isadore.  Anna  died  at  the  age  of 
fifteen.  b'rank  is  a  student  in  Montnal.  b'or 
si.vteen    \ears    Mr.    .Mivbae'    Coll    lias    been    a 


member  of  the  .Schoid  Hoard,  seiving  upon  the 
Conmiittee  on  X'aluation;  and  he  is  a  Ju.stice 
of  the  Peace.  He  takes  a  great  interest  in 
charitable  and  benevident  objects,  and  was  for- 
merly president  of  the  St.  N'incent  de  I'aid 
.Societ\'  of  I'orthmd. 


"WUniAAAM  !••.  (;b;()R(;b:,  wlio  owns 
VpV^  and  ociupies  one  of  the  best 
e«piipped  and  most  valual)le  farming  estates 
in  .Sackville,  N.H.,  is  recognized  as  one  of 
the  foremost  agriculturists  of  VVestmoreLind 
County.  He  was  born  in  Sackville,  April  12, 
1.S3J,  son  of  James  and  Lli/abeth  (b'awcett) 
(leorge. 

I'eter  George,  his  paternal  grandfatiier,  who 
was  born  and  reared  in  Scotland,  was  for  sev- 
eral years  a  soldier  in  the  Hritish  army.  l!m- 
igrating  to  America,  lie  located  on  the  St. 
John  River  in  New  Brunswick,  where  he  fol- 
lowed farming  and  lumbering  for  a  number  of 
years.  During  his  later  days  he  receivi'd  a 
pension  from  the  Hritish  g.^''  rnment.  His 
wife,  wliose  maiden  name  was  Anderson,  v.as 
a  widow  wlien  iie  married  her.  They  became 
the  parents  of  loin-  ciiildren.  of  v.dimn  James 
'vas  the  youngest.  Deciding  at  length  to  re- 
move to  Ontario,  i'eter  <icoige  and  his  wife 
endiarked  with  their  household  goods,  and 
were  both  drowned  and  their  effects  lost. 

James  tjeorge  was  born  at  a  settlement  <in 
the  St.  John  Kiver,  which  he  left  when  a  lad 
of  twelve  years  to  come  to  Sac  kville,  win  re  be 
found  a  positiori  as  cliore  boy  on  the  farm  of 
John    l"",iwcett,    whose    cousin.    William    b'aw- 


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cett,  :i  niiml)L'r  ol  years  later  became  his 
fatlier-in-law.  After  liis  marria<;e  witli  I-^liz- 
al)ctli  I''awcett  lie  assumed  tlie  entire  charge 
of  the  I'awcett  farm.  Hy  dint  of  unceasing 
toil  and  good  management  he  added  materially 
to  its  improvements,  and  before  his  death,  in 
1882,  at  the  age  of  seventy-nine  years,  lie  had 
accumulated  a  fine  property.  His  widow, 
who  was  born  on  this  farm,  October  24,  1810, 
still  resides  on  it,  making  her  home  with  her 
son,  Charles  \V.  George,  of  whom  a  sketch 
appears  on  another  page  of  this  work.  Siie  is 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  to  which 
her  husband  also  belonged,  he  having  been 
very  active  in  denominational  affairs  and  for 
many  years  a  trustee  of  the  church  jirojierty. 
Tiny  reared  live  cliildrcii  —  William  K., 
Sarah  A.,  CharK  s  \V.,  Lizzie,  and  l'".mma  J. 
Sarah  A.  is  the  widow  of  (ieorgo  1".  IJlack, 
late  of  Dorchester,  N.H. ,  and  has  three  chil- 
dren living,  namely:  Hattie,  who  is  the  wife 
of  Clayton  Dickey,  of  .Shediac,  N.15.,  and  has 
one  child,  Xina;  Charles,  who  married  Mar- 
garet letter;  and  Isabella,  wife  'if  Thomas 
Cochran,  of  Dorchester,  and  mother  of  two 
children — William  Alexander  and  Gretta. 
Lizzie  is  tiie  wife  of  the  Rev.  Silas  James,  of 
Hillsboro,  N.  H.,  and  has  three  children  — 
I'"rederick  .S.,  ICdiia  L.,  and  Llla  W.  I'jiima 
J.  is  immarried. 

William  V.  George  was  educated  at  Mount 
Allison  Academv  in  -Saikviiie,  and  under  the 
instruction  of  iiis  father  received  an  excellent 
training  in  agricultural  pursuits.  When  he 
was  ready  to  establish  himself  in  life,  his 
father  gave  him  a  farm,  on  which  he  has  since 


followed  the  independent  occupation  to  which 
he  was  reared.  He  has  added  to  its  area  by 
purchase  of  other  land,  and  is  now  the  jios- 
sessor  of  nine  hundred  acres,  seventy  acres 
of  which  is  upland,  on  which  he  resides, 
six  hundred  and  fifty  acres  woodland,  and 
two  hundred  and  twenty-five  acres  marsh- 
land. He  makes  a  specialty  of  cutting 
iiay,  and  deals  extensively  in  this  product, 
selling  to  foreign  markets.  He  has  also  been 
very  extensively  engaged  in  raising  stock.  A 
man  of  excellent  business  ability,  jirogressive 
and  enterprising,  Mr.  George  is  also  actively 
interested  in  industries  outside  of  his  own 
town  and  province,  being  a  shareholder  in  the 
Acadia  Coal  &  Coke  Company  of  Ohio,  and 
in  the  Cotton  Gin  Company  of  New  ^'(lrk  and 
stockholder  in  tiie  New  Hrunswick  Oil  Com- 
pany and  other  industries.  Politically,  he  is 
a  liberal,  and  he  is  an  energetic  winker  in 
local  affairs.  In  1891  he  was  a  candidate  for 
the  House  of  Commons  in  the  Df)niinion 
election,  for  a  score  of  years  he  was  a  Com- 
missioner for  the  I'arish  of  Sackville  Civil 
Court,  and  for  the  last  thirty-five  years  he 
has  served   as  Justice  of  the    I'eace. 

Mr.  George  and  Mary  A.  Trenholm,  daugh- 
ter of  George  Trenh(dm,  of  Kort  Lawrence, 
N.S. ,  were  married  on  January  22,  1856,  and 
they  have  four  children:  namely,  Fletcher, 
Hessie  Jane,  Arthur  N.,  and  Frederick  W. 
I-'letciier,  i)orn  Decen'.ber  2.7,  1857,  married 
Alma  (now  ileceased),  daughter  of  George 
Hlack,  of  Dorchester,  \.  H.  Hessie  Jane  mar- 
ried first  Alfred  Iviton,  of  Cornwallis,  N.S., 
who   died    leaving    her   wilii    lour  children    - 


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raiilina  S.,  William  Ci.,  Lcandcr,  and  Hlakc. 
She  married  second  her  first  husbaiul's 
brother,  Cliarles  Ivitor,  by  whom  she  has  two 
children  —  Hugh  II.  and  C  Louise.  Arthur 
N.,  born  I'ebruary  22,  1864,  married  Annie, 
daughter  ol  James  W'heaton,  of  Sackville,  and 
lias  four  children  -  Lena  Hazel,  James  Rus- 
sell, Ralpii,  and  Bessie  Louise.  I*'rederick 
W.  was  horn  April  JO,  1S7J.  Mr.  Georj^e  is 
trustee  and  steward  of  the  Methodist  Church 
of  Sackville,  of  which  he  and  hi.s  wile  have 
been  mendiers  lor  thirty-five  years. 


HUM  AS  HARLOW,  son  of  Thomas,  Sr., 
was  born  in  .St.  John.  Having  served 
an  apprenliicsliip  at  the  carpenter's  trade,  he 
followed  it  until  establishing  what  is  now- 
known  as  the  I'h(ini.\  I'"ouiuliy,  in  which  he 
was  the  pattern-maker,  and  he  had  as  associ- 
ates James  l-'leming  and  William  Stewart. 
Selling-  his  interest  in  that  enterprise  son-ie 
vears  latci,  he  spent  the  rest  of  his  life  in 
retin-nient,  ami  died  iii  \XC>4.  He  was  one  of 
the  organi/.ers  of  the  Mechanics  Institute,  and 
a  member  of  the  Sons  of  'lemperance.  In  bis 
religious  belief  he  was  a  Methodist,  and  be- 
longed to  the  (ieniiain  Street  Church. 

Thomas  Harlow  married  Charlotte,  daughter 
of  lames  (ioodwin,  whose  birth  took  place  in  a 
house  on  Nelson  Street  in  St.  John.  She  be- 
came the  mother  of  si.\  children;  namely, 
Thomas,  Martha,  Ldwin  William,  decirgc, 
Sophia  Jane,  and  Charles.  Thomas  Harlow, 
third,  who  was  a  carpenter,  died  in  iSHo,  and 
his     widow,    w-hose    maiden    name    was     Mary 


]?owyer,  surxives  him.  Martha  Harlow  mar- 
ried Harris  Wright,  and  is  now  resitling  in 
Dorchester,  Mass.  (leorge  Harlow,  who  was  a 
mechanic,  died  about  the  year  i.S/o.  Sophia 
Jane  is  the  widow  of  Dr.  Archibald  Ma.xwell, 
late  of  I'ictou,  N'.S.,  and  resides  at  Hear  River 
in  that  rrovince.  Charles  died  at  the  age  of 
live  years.  Mrs.  Chailotte  Hailow  is  now 
eighty-nine  years  (jUI,  and  is  unusually  bright 
and  active  for  one  of  her  years. 

Ldwin  William  liarlow  was  born  on  April 
iS,  1.S57,  in  the  house  on  Cobmg  .Street,  where 
he  now  resides.  Ihuing  com|)leted  his  educa- 
tion at  the  .Suidnuy  (iranimar  School,  he 
served  an  ap|)renticeshii)  of  five  years  at  the 
carpenter's  trade,  and  after  working  as  a  jour- 
neyman for  .some  time  he  formed  a  partnershij) 
with  Charles  W.  I-'rost,  under  the  lirni  nanu- 
of  l-'rost  iS;  Harliiw.  That  concern,  whose  shi'P 
was  located  upon  the  site  of  the  present  i-lec- 
tric  light  w-orks,  turned  their  attention  to  the 
building  of  ship  cabins.  Messrs.  I-'mst  and 
Harlow  w-ere  together  si.\  yeais,  at  the  end  ol 
wliich  time  .Mr.  I-'msl  died.  I'lu-  surviving 
jiartnei-  has  continued  in  business  alone  evei- 
since.  Ldwin  William  Harlow  was  united  in 
marriage  on  June  jTi,  i.Sfij,  by  the  Rev.  .S.  H. 
Smith,  with  Lli/.al)elh  Jane  Lrost,  d.iughter 
of  Robert  Chillis  l-'rost.  1  ler  father  was  born 
in  .St.  John,  and  her  mother,  whose  maiden 
name  was  also  Lrost,  was  a  nati\e  (jI  Kings 
County.  Mrs.  Hailow  is  a  desiend.nit  of  Rob- 
ert Chillis,  a  .Scotthman  and  a  Loyalist,  who 
served  as  Captain  in  the  Hritish  arm\  during 
the  American  Revolution.  She  1  as  in  her 
[jossessiou  the  first  Hible  used  in  St.   Andrew's 


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Kirk,  ami  also  a  malm^aiiy  laliK'  mack'  by 
liobcrt  Clhilli.s,  who  broiighl  it  to  this  coimtiy. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harlow  have  had  three  children; 
namely,  Charles  \V. ,  1).  U.S.,  Arthur,  and 
Julia  Nhdiel.  Arthur  died  at  tiie  aye  ot  three 
years.  ('JKules  W.  liailow  |;radualed  in  1X94 
Iron)  the  American  Dental  C(dlej;e,  now  eon- 
neeled  with  the  Chicago  I'niver.sity,  and  is 
praclisin;^  his  profession  in  I'rovidence,   K.  1. 

Mr.  liarlow  beloiii^s  to  tiu-  Independent 
Order  ol  Odd  h'ellows.  lie  has  been  a  mem 
held!  the  hire  Department  since  1861,  and  is 
a  trustee  of  the  I'ireman's  Relief  Associiition. 
He  assisted  in  entertaining  11.  R.  ]!.,  the 
I'rince  of  Wales,  duriiif;  his  visit    to   .St.    |ohn. 


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^S^.\.Mi;.S  CAN' NOR,  block -maker,  .St. 
John,  son  of  Joiui  Reach  and  .Sarah  J. 
((iill)  Cia\iior,  was  born  on  March  24, 
iS^^,   in  the  house  where  he  now  rcsiiles. 

His  great-grand! ather,  I'eter  Caynor,  who 
was  born  in  Ireland,  went  to  .Scotland,  and 
subsei[uently  emigrated  to  .America,  settling 
in  Rhode  Islanil  ])re\  ions  to  the  ke\(dut  ioii- 
ar\  War.  He  was  a  block-maker  by  trade,  and 
followed  that  occupation  in  Newport.  In  May, 
178;?,  he  came  to  St.  John  with  the  Loyalists, 
and  followed  his  trade  oii  \'ork  Point.  He 
was  a  mcnd)ei'  of  the  Churih  of  England.  He 
marrii'd,  in  ludand,  Hridget  b'ord,  a  native  of 
that  counlry,  who  was  a  Catholic  in  her  relig- 
ious belief.  He  died  when  about  fifty  )ears 
old,  and  his  wife  lived  to  the  adsanced  age  ol 
ninety-nine  years. 

Their  son  James,  giandfather  of  the  subject 


of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Indand.  Joining 
the  liritish  navy,  he  remained  in  the  service 
for  some  time,  and  about  the  yeai-  i/yo  settled 
in  .St.  John,  where  for  the  rest  of  his  life  he 
f(d lowed  his  trade  of  a  block- makei',  which  hv 
had  learned  of  his  father.  He  died  in  1821, 
at  the  age  of  seventy  \  ears.  lliswifi-,  Anna 
.Seely,  a  native  of  Connecticut,  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  .Seth  .Seely,  a  stanch  Loyalist.  .She 
died  at  the  age  of  fifty-six.  Their  children 
were:  William,  Jose|)h,  John  Reach,  .\le.\an 
der,  Catherine,  and  Ann. 

John  Reach  (Jaynor,  son  of  the  tii  st  Jar^es 
and  fatlier  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was 
born  at  A'oik  I'oint,  .Septi'inber  23,  179",  and 
was  brought  up  in  St.  John.  Learning  his 
father's  trade,  he  contimied  winking  with  him, 
and  after  his  father's  death  he  succeeded  to  the 
business,  which  was  a  jiiospcrous  one.  Ik- 
was  frequently  at  work  upon  as  many  as  ten 
vessels  at  the  same  time.  In  1823  he  married 
.Sarah  J.  (lill,  a  native  if  .St.  Mary's,  and 
daughter  of  Thomas  Cill,  who  came  here  fiom 
I'enns)  Ivania.  Her  lather  ser\ed  during  the 
American  Revolution  on  the  ISritish  side,  tlist 
as  Sergeant,  being  later  promoted.  John  R. 
and  .Sarah  J.  (Ciill)  Caynor  were  the  (jarents 
of  six  children,  namely:  Margaret,  John 
]!each,  Thomas  Cill,  .Samuel,  all  of  whom 
died  yoimg ;  bdiza,  who  ni.uiied  Thomas  C. 
Humbert,  of  .St.  John;  and  James,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch. 

James  C:iynor  was  educated  at  the  .Sack\ille 
.Academy.  Cnon  leaving  school  he  leaiued 
the  block-maker's  trade,  being  the  fourth  ri'p- 
resentati\"e   ol    the   family    in   a    diiect    line   to 


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fulluw  tliMt  ii(ciip;it  idii.  lie  c'diitiiunjcl  in  the 
business  until  ukkIlmu  impidwiiunts  niade  it 
uuprofitiiliic. 

On  October  2S,  iSijo,  Mi.  (i;i\iuir  niMiried 
Ijiiiiiii  C.'aKiliiK'  I'liwlei',  (l:iu,i;iiter  (if  Noah 
l''o\vler,  aiui  i;iaiul-(iauxlUer  of  Henry  h'owler, 
a  proniiiient   1  .o\  alist. 


-;<  iiiHAi.D  irrz  KANJ)OLrii,  .me 


if  the  I'-adiiij;  liti/ens  of  l-'iederieton, 
N.H. ,  is  ])idniincntly  identified  with 
its  tinaiuial,  niereantile,  and  manufacturing' 
interests,  lie  was  horn  July  J4,  iS^^,  at 
Digby,  N.  .S. ,  a  son  of  James  11.  l-'it/  Kan- 
dol]ili  anil  a  j;iandsoii  of  Josepli  l'"it/.  Ran- 
dolph. 

'I'iie  grandfatiier  eniif^rated  with  tiie  Loyal- 
ists to  \n\a  Scotia,  and  subsequently  became 
one  of  tiie  foremost  eili/ens  of  Digby  County, 
and  foi'  several  years  was  a  member  of  tiie 
Legislative  Council  of  Nova  Scotia.  He 
owned  a  large  tract  of  land,  called  "Jk'lle 
I'arm,"  at  Bridgetown,  where  he  carried  on 
general  farming  until  his  deatli,  at  the  age  of 
tiireescore  and  ten  yi'ars,  In  religion  lie  was  a 
Quaker  or  I'^riend.  He  reared  foiu"  sons  and 
one  daughter,  none  of  whom  are  now  living. 

James  H.  l-'it/  Randol|iii  was  born  in  Digby, 
N.S.,  and  during  his  active  life  was  an  exlen- 
sive  dealer  in  dry  goods.  He  served  in  public 
office  many  years,  having  been  the  senior  Jus- 
tice of  the  I'eace,  and,  as  such,  presiding  head 
of  the  Hoard  of  .Sessions.  Departing  from  the 
(Juaker  faith  in  wiiicli  ln'  was  brougiil  up,  he 
became    a    devout    member   of    the    C'inucli    of 


I'Jigland.  Ill'  died  at  the  age  of  fortv-seven 
years.  He  married  Susan  I!.,  daughter  of 
Afajor  Tiiomas  Menzies,  of  Lancaster,  N.I!., 
the  ri'presentat ive  of  an  old  famiU  fiom  tlu' 
south  of  Perthshire,  Scotland,  and  at  one  tinu- 
an  officer  in  the  Hritish  armv.  Maioi'  .Men/ies 
was  a  friend  of  Major  Andre;  and  his  grand- 
son, who  owns  Rose  Hall,  the  house  wliich 
[k'liedict  Arnold  formerly  occupied,  has  a  |)is- 
tol  that  once  belonged  to  that  ill-fated  (jfficer. 
Nine  children  weie  boi  n  to  James  II.  b'itz 
Kandcdph  and  his  wife,  Archibald  l-'itz  being 
the  third  child.  ( )ne  son  is  a  resident  of 
I'hiladelphia,  I'a.  ;  and  one  daughter,  .Mrs. 
McCallum,  is  living  in  ^'a|■molUh,  N.S.  The 
mother  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-three  \ears. 
Archibalil  V.  Randolph  was  educated  in  the 
Digby  (irammar  School,  and  at  the  age  of  si.\- 
teen  years  began  to  be  self-supporting.  l'"or 
three  vears  tiiereafter  he  was  a  clerk  in  the 
hardware  store  of  Mr.  L.  .Stephens,  in  St. 
John,  and  the  ensuing  two  years  he  was  cleik 
and  book-kee|ier  for  A.  T.  Coburn,  a  ]''rederic- 
ton  merchant.  In  1X51;  he  opened  a  store  for 
the  retail  sale  of  hardware,  dr_v  goods,  grocer- 
ies, and  other  merchandise,  and,  conimeneing 
on  a  small  scale,  he  continued  a  successful 
business  in  these  lines  for  ten  years.  In  1H65 
he  established  a  wholesale  grocerv'  in  Mr. 
Ilodges's  building,  which  he  occupied  until  the 
completion  of  his  present  commodious  store, 
in  icSyS.  This  building,  si.xty  by  si.xty  feet, 
with  four  floors  and  a  basement,  and  also  three 
storehouses,  he  uses  in  comiection  with  his 
extensive  trade  in  West  India  goods,  flour,  and 
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other  business  enterprises.  In  1870,  in  eom- 
pany  with  Mr.  J{ai<er,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Kandolph  &  Baiter,  he  established  a  saw-mill 
foi-  the  manufacture  of  deals  and  short  lumber, 
and  also  lime-kilns  at  Randolph,  a  suburi) 
which  was  named  in  his  honor.  In  these  two 
industries,  which  lie  has  built  up  from  the 
foundation,  one  hundred  and  sixty  men  arc 
employed,  and  on  an  average  twenty  million 
feet  of  lumber  are  manufactured,  and  sixty 
thousand  barrels  of  lime  produced  annually. 

Mr.  Randoljjh  has  been  the  only  president  of 
the  I'eople's  Bank  of  Fredericton.  This  bank 
was  incorporated  in  1864,  with  a  capital  of 
si.xty  thousand  dollars,  which  has  since  been 
increased  to  three  hundred  and  thirty  thousand 
dollars,  while  the  value  of  the  stock  in  the 
meantime  has  advanced  from  fifty  dollars  per 
share  to  two  hundred  and  seventy-five  dollars. 
Mr.  Randolph  is  a  director  of  the  I^'rclericton 
Electric  Light  and  Gas  Company,  and  is  pres- 
ident of  the  Keystone  Insurance  Comiiany,  of 
St.  John,  N.  B.  Since  1S75  be  has  been  ])res- 
ideiit  of  the  hredericton  Boom  Company,  a 
C(jrporation  employing  five  lunulred  men  and 
doing  an  immense  business,  the  receipts  for 
the  year  189S,  up  to  ^Xugust  1,  lieing  one  hun- 
dred and  thirty  thousand  dollars,  lie  is  Lib- 
eral in  politics  and  a  firm  su]iporter  of  the 
present  Dominion  government,  but  is  not 
active  in  public  matters.  Ik-  was  apjiointcd 
for  life,  in  18S3,  to  the  Legislative  Council, 
but  subsei|uently  resigned  that  position.  lie 
served  as  chairman  of  the  local  .School  Bt)ard 
from  1872  iMUil  \i>ij6.  wiien  be  went  to  Cali- 
fornia.     I''or  thirty  years  he  has  been  a  mem- 


ber of  the  Baptist  church,  in  which  he  has 
served  as  Deacon  a  cpiarter  of  a  century.  In 
1S83  Mr.  I^andolph  adiuitted  one  of  his  sons 
into  partnership,  and  in  iSyj  another  son  was 
made  a  member  of  the  firm,  the  name  of  which 
has  been  changed  from  A.  F.  Randolph  to 
A.  I'".  Randolj)h  &  Sons. 

Mr.  Randolph  and  Amira  Donald.son, 
daughter  of  William  'rurnbi.U,  of  Bear  River 
now  Bridgeport,  N.  S.,  were  married  in  1858, 
and  they  have  had  eight  children,  of  whom  five 
are  living. 


1|^  C.  JOHN  DUNN,  the  well-known 
I /T^ .  architect  of  St.  John,  was  born  there 
^— "^  in  1837,  the  eldest  son  of  Johr.  and 
Martha  {(Jould)  Dunn.  On  the  paternal  side 
he  is  of  Irish  ancestry,  his  father  having  been 
born  in  Derry,  Ireland,  in  1804. 

John  Dunn,  a  lad  of  twelve  years,  in  1818, 
after  the  death  of  his  father,  came  to  America, 
following  the  footstejjs  of  his  brother  James, 
and  .settled  in  St.  John.  At  a  later  date  their 
widowed  mother  arrived.  John  Dunu  learned 
the  cabinet-maker's  trade,  and  suhsetiueutly 
became  a  nianutacturer  of  lumber.  I'cjr  this 
purpose  he  erected  a  mill,  in  which  he  had  the 
first  iilaning-mill  at  St.  John,  and  also  im- 
iiorted  large  quantities  of  mahogany.  Retir- 
ing from  this  business  in  1854,  he  bought  a 
farm  in  Musquash,  which  he  cultivated  until 
his  death.  His  wife,  the  mother  ol  the  siib- 
jecl  of  this  sketch,  was  of  luiglish  parentage, 
her  father,  Charles  (jould,  having  come  from 
Somersetshire,  luigland,  with  his  tamily. 
Mr.  Dunn  died  in  i88y  at  the  age  of  eighty- 


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five.  IIu  was  for  many  years  a  incniber  of  the 
Municipal  Council.  His  smviviiiy  children 
are  as  follows :  IMrs.  S.  J.  Parkin;  R.  C.  John 
Dunn;  J.  J.  Dunn,  of  California;  Albert  T. , 
Surveyor-general  of  New  Urunswick  and  Rep- 
resentative for  the  county  of  St.  John  in  the 
Legislatme;  Thomas  A.  VV.  ;  Frederick  H. ,  of 
Musquash;  and  ICleanor  T. ,  the  wife  of  C. 
Clinch. 

Mr.  R.  C.  John  Dunn  began  the  study  of 
architecture  when  a  boy  with  George  N.  Smith, 
and  later  accpiired  a  fuller  knowledge  of  its 
])ractical  details.  Tor  the  sake  of  more  ex- 
tended observation  he  went  abroad,  visiting 
the  celebrated  buildings  of  various  luuopean 
countries,  and  widely  increasing  his  knowl- 
edge "f  existing  architectural  monuments. 
Upon  his  return  he  took  a  course  of  study  in 
Hoston,  and  subsequently  he  worked  in  various 
parts  of  the  United  States,  spending  consider- 
able time  in  Chicago.  In  1M75  he  returned  to 
his  native  city,  where  he  opened  m  office,  and 
has  since  been  most  successfully  engaged  in 
professional  work.  He  has  superintended  the 
erection  of  many  of  the  imjjortant  buildings 
since  erected  in  the  ])rovince. 

Mr.  Dunn  was  made  a  Mason  in  the  Ciiarles 
W.  Moore  Lodge  at  l'"itchburg,  Mass.,  in 
1866.  He  was  one  of  the  first  members  of  the 
Knigiits  of  I'ytbias  in  St.  John. 


^()H\  (ilLCHRLST,  M.I).,  a  well- 
known  physician  of  St.  John,  was  born 
in  that    jiart  of    the    parish    of    Prince 

William,   now   Dumfries,  York  County,  N.  H., 


January  5,  1832,  son  of  James  and  Mary 
(Yerxa)  Gilchri.st.  His  father  was  born  in 
Perthshire,  Scotland,  in  1783. 

James  (iilcbrist  was  in  tiie  Hritisii  service  at 
Halifax,  X.S.,  during  the  War  of  1S12,  and 
had  charge  of  the  American  prisoners  en  board 
of  the  "Chesapeake."  ^Xfter  the  exchange  of 
[irisoners  lie  came  to  Xew  Hrunswick,  where 
he  served  as  .School-master's  .Sergeant  in  the 
New  Brunswick  corps,  and  taught  school  in 
Prince  William,  Kingclear,  and  Southampton 
until  a  short  time  prior  to  his  deatli,  which 
occurred  April  30,  1849.  He  was  also  en- 
gaged in  farming.  Politically,  he  was  a  Tory, 
and  held  several  offices,  ii  luding  that  of  Pub- 
lic Land  Surveyor.  He  was  reared  a  Presby- 
terian, but  after  his  marriage  he  joined  the 
Church  of  luigland,  and  his  ciiildien  were  ba[)- 
tized  in  that  faith.  He  belonged  to  the  Ma- 
sonic Order. 

His  wife,  Mary,  whom  be  married  in  1820, 
was  a  daughter  of  John  ami  I'rances  ((ierow) 
Yerxa,  who  came  fioni  Oueens  County.  Long 
Island,  N.  \'.,  with  tiie  Loyalists  in  1783. 
While  i)roceeding  up  the  .St.  John  River  they 
were  com])elled,  by  the  severity  of  the  weather, 
to  remain  within  the  shelter  of  a  camj)  until 
the  following  spring,  wiien  the\-  continued 
tiieii-  jomiie\-  to  the  mouth  of  tiie  Keswick 
River,  where  tiiey  settled  upon  a  large  grant  of 
land.  The  {}erows  were  of  l-'rencb  origin, 
being  descendants  of  an  old  Huguenot  family. 
John  \'erxa  became  a  prosperous  farmer.  He 
reared  a  family  of  sixteen  cliildren,  four  of 
whom  were  born  on  Long  Island,  antl  among  the 
latter  were  the  late  Major  Yer.xa  and  the  late 


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Mrs.  [dim  Hrcwcr  nl  \'iiik  Cminty.  All  lived 
to  a  f^ood  old  aye,  and  tlu'  second  death  in  the 
family  was  tliat  of  a  daui^hter  who  was  forty- 
five  years  old.  James  and  Mary  V.  Gilchrist 
were  the  parents  of  two  ciiildrcn  —  John,  the 
suhject  of  thissketcii,  and  David.  The  mother 
died  in  1S55,  aged  seventy-two  years. 

John  Gilchrist  in  his  boyhood  and  youth 
attended  the  common  and  Normal  schools,  antl 
sliidied  Latin  and  jfliysies  under  a  private 
tutor.  He  lieyan  the  study  of  medicine  under 
I)rs.  .Swan  and  Holmes,  of  Calais,  Me.,  subse- 
ciuently  jjursued  a  course  at  the  Maine  Medi- 
cal School,  and  completed  his  iDrejiaratory 
studies  at  the  liellevue  Hospital  Medical  Col- 
lege, Xew  \'ori<.  He  began  to  practice  in 
1S57  in  the  western  part  of  New  Brunswick, 
and  from  1.S58  to  1867  he  resided  in  Sheffield, 
Sunbury  County,  his  field  of  operation  extend- 
ing into  Oueens  and  Kent  counties.  In  1868 
he  settled  in  Portland,  which  is  now  a  part  of 
St.  John,  and  for  many  years  has  been  re- 
garded as  one  of  the  most  able  pliysicians  of 
the  city 

Dr.  (iilchrist  owns  a  tine  stoci<  farm  in 
Kings  Count)',  and  has  devoted  mucli  attention 
to  raising  cattle  and  iiorses,  being  the  largest 
breeder  of  Jersey  cows  in  the  I\Iaritime  I'rov- 
inces,  anil  the  only  stockman  in  New  Hruns- 
wick  to  make  a  specialty  of  raising  thorough- 
bretl  running  horses.  He  is  (|uite  active  in 
political  affairs,  having  contested  Kings 
County  for  a  seat  in  the  I'rovincial  Assembly 
in  1892,  running  against  the  [iresent  Attorney 
(ieneral.  He  is  chairman  of  tiie  t'onsei  vative 
organization  in  Lantisilowne  Waul,  and  a  mem- 


ber of  the  lv\ecu'i\e  Committee.  In  cam- 
paigning he  is  sain  to  be  a  master  of  invecti\e 
and  sarcasm. 

In  August,  1859,  Dr.  Gilchrist  married 
Miss  IClizaljelh  Brewer,  of  Robbinston,  Me. 
•She  is  a  daughter  of  the  late  William  Brewer, 
and  a  niece  of  John  M.  Brewer,  tlie  well-known 
ship-builder;  and  is  related  to  several  promi- 
nent families  in  the  .St.  Croi.\  valley.  She  is 
descended  from  the  family  of  an  old  I-Jiglish 
admiral  who  was  stationed  between  Halifax 
and  the  West  Inilies  before  tlie  American  Rev- 
olution. Dr.  and  Mrs.  Gilchrist  ha\e  four 
children,  naniely :  Helen,  wife  of  Henry 
Thomas,  of  .Montreal;  Maud,  wife  of  J(jsepli 
Henderson,  of  No\'a  .Scotia;  John  B.  Gilchrist, 
M.D.,  a  graduate  of  Ikllevue  Hospital  Medi- 
cal College,  now  practising  in  Greenwich, 
Kings  County;  and  James,  who  is  now  manag- 
ing his  father's  farm. 

The  Doctor  belongs  to  the  Ro)al  Arcanum, 
for  which  he  was  foinierly  medical  examiner; 
arid  he  is  now  serving  in  tiial  capacity  for  the 
Temperance  and  (jeneral  Life  Assurance  Com- 
pany of  North  America. 


^l.BRID(H';  (H:RRV  DINN,  retired 
umiier  manufacturer,  .St.  John,  has 
been  identifietl  with  the  business  interests  of 
New  Brunswick  since  1S52.  He  is  a  native 
of  Maine,  having  been  born  in  Mount  Vernon, 
Kennebec  ("ounty,  that  State,  in  1812.  His 
l>arents  were  I'eter  and  Dorothy  (Bartlelt) 
Dmin.  His  paternal  aiuestors  original  1\'  came 
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fought  f(ir  the  American  colonics  in  the  Revo- 
lution, as  did  also  his  j^nandfather,  Christopher. 
Christo])lier  Dunn  saw  service  in  tjie  campaign 
that  resulted  in  the  capture  of  liurf,'oyne  and 
in  the  battles  of  the  Lakes.  On  his  malernal 
side,  also,  IMr.  Dunn  comes  of  Re\dhitionary 
stock.  His  mother's  father,  Thomas  Hartlett, 
was  at  I,e.\ini;ton,  Concord,  and  Hunkei'  Ilill; 
and  her  uncle,  Josiah  Hartlett,  was  one  ot  the 
signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Indepenilence. 

Mr.  Dunn  spent  his  boyhood  an  the  farm, 
and  obtained  iiis  education  in  tiie  ])ui)lic 
schools.  In  Ajiril,  iiS.S.i,  he  came  to  New 
Ikunswick,  locating  in  I-'redericton,  where  for 
the  next  nine  years  he  worked  at  carpentering 
with  his  brother.  He  then  went  to  Aroos- 
took, i\Ic.,  wliich  was  at  that  time  a  com|)ara- 
ti\'ely  unbroken  country.  Clearing  a  tract  of 
land,  he  opened  uj)  a  farm  and  ])ro\ed  that  the 
soil  was  productive  by  reaping  a  goodly  har- 
vest. Hut  he  saw  from  the  first  that  the  forests 
of  Aroostook  would  yield  gold  to  the  wood- 
cutter, and  he  set  about  developing  the  lumiier 
indu.stry.  He  was  one  ol  the  fust  men  there  10 
engage  in  that  line  of  business,  and  he  contin- 
ued it  most  successfulh'  until  1.S70.  lie  pur- 
chased large  tracts  of  tind)ei  land,  and  eiuployed 
many  men  to  cut  it  off.  In  addition  to  this, 
he  kept  on  with  his  farming,  and  in  time 
cleared  a  valuable  estate.  In  1.S70  he  removed 
to  .St.  John  and  bought  a  saw-mill,  and  since 
that  time  has  been  operating  it  most  prosper- 
ously. 

In  |<S92  the  old  mill  was  abandoned,  and  a 
new  one  was  built  about  six  miles  u|)  the  river. 
This  is  now  conducted  by  his  sons.     Mr.  Dunn 


is  a  self-made  man.  Hy  his  own  energy  and 
eff(Mt  he  has  acquired  a  handsome  property, 
.and  this  vields  him  an  assured  income.  He 
has  always  been  attentive  to  tiie  duties  of  liti- 
zenship;  anil,  while  a  resident  of  Maine,  he 
was  a  mend)er  of  (iovernor  Coney's  Council. 
He  attends  the  Unitarian  church. 

Mr.  Dunn  marrieil  in  1S45  Louisa  M. 
Brackett,  who  was  born  in  Albion,  Me., 
daughter  of  Joseph  Hrackett.  Mrs.  Dunn  died 
in  September,  iSyfj,  leaving  four  children  — 
Caroline  Shaw,  Cicorge  Bancroft,  Mary,  and 
IClbridge  Gerry,  Jr.  Caroline  .Shaw,  who  died 
in  I1S97,  was  the  wife  of  Nathaniel  M.  Jewett, 
of  Boston.  Ceorge  Bancroft  Dunn  resides  in 
Aroostook,  Me.  Mary  is  the  wife  of  K.  J. 
Johnson,  of  Boston,  Mass.  I'^bridge  (ierry 
Dunn,  Jr.,  resides  nu  the  old  homestead  in 
Aroostook. 


OHN  HICBUINGTON,  :'>\<.,  of  Freder- 
icton,  one  of  the  most  successfid 
gardeners  and  florists  in  this  section, 
was  horn  in  Cheshire,  Lnglaml.  His  father 
was  a  farmer;  Init  John  at  seventeen  years  of 
age,  having  a  natural  taste  for  gardening,  left 
home  and  made  his  way  to  Messrs.  Laing's 
nursery  at  Twickenham,  Countv  of  Middlesex, 
near  London,  in  which  he  found  em])loyment. 
He  subsequently  worked  successively  for  Lord 
J.  Chiccster,  under  head  gardener  I'eel, 
at  Kinghorn's  nursery,  Richnu)nd,  and  Wal- 
ford,  Lsci. ,  Last  .Shean,  and  from  thence 
went  to  Reeves  Brothers'  nurser\-,  Notting 
Hill,  London,  Messrs.  Reeves  being  at  that 
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Garden  market.  Mr.  licbbiiii^ton  next  entered 
the  employ  nf  Carter  &  Co.  Messrs.  Carter 
were  called  tiie  royal  seedsnu'ii.  Their  nursery 
and  trial  grounds  were  at  Sydeidiam,  Crystal 
Palace  nursery. 

In  the  sjiring  of  the  year  1S70  Mr.  j.  \V. 
Urayley,  then  ol  l'"rederieton,  N.I5.,  but  later 
of  Montreal,  had  a  tine  collection  of  stove  anil 
greenhouse  idants,  also  a  grapery,  lawn,  and 
vegetable  garden.  He  wished  to  procure  a 
single  man  well  np  in  plant  cultivation,  and 
Messrs.  Carter  &  Co.  reconimended  Mr. 
Hebbington.  lie  was  sent  accordingly  in  that 
year  to  I'redericton  to  take  charge  of  Mr. 
Hrayley's  place.  There  was  a  Provincial 
Ivxliibition  that  year  in  October,  in  which  Mr. 
Urayley  received  seventeen  first  and  second 
prizes  for  collection  of  plants  and  cut  (lowers, 
also  the  first  for  hothouse  gra[)es,  in  cnni|)eti- 
tion  with  the  late  Governor  Wilniot,  Daniel 
Keniiey,  Judge  .Stevens,  and  other  noted  horti- 
culturists of  that  day.  .\fter  one  year's  service 
with  Mr.  lirayley,  Mr.  Iiehbington  found  his 
way  to  the  nursery  of  Messrs.  l[ovey&  Co. 
in  C.unbridge,  at  that  time  forty  acres  in 
extent,  will-,  some  seventeen  greenhouses. 
Mr.  liebbinglou  took  charge  of  the  tropical 
department,  orcliiils,  camellias,  and  azaleas, 
with  a  rose  house,  and  grew  all  the  specimen 
plants.  He  arranged  them  for  exhibition 
with  the  result  of  many  first  prizes  at  Horti- 
cultural Hall  that  year.  It  m.iy  be  mentiimed 
that  the  jiear  crop  on  the  llovey  place  that 
season  s<dd  fm-  two  thousand  dollars.  Mr. 
Hebbington  remained  two  years  with  Messrs. 
Hovey,  and   then   engaged   as   |iropagat</r  with 


.Strong,  (iondwin  iS:  .Spooner  at  Brighton, 
now  I'.Uiot.  .\fter  some  time  he  accepted  an 
offer  from  the  late  Mr.  |.  .\.  Morrison,  of 
h'redericton,  to  su])erintend  the  building  of 
greenhouses  and  laying  out  of  his  grcnmds. 

Ifpwards  of  three  years  later  Mr.  IV'bbing- 
ton  bought  two  lots  of  land,  on  which  he  built 
in  \Sy(>  a  dwelling-house  and  a  lean-to 
greenhouse,  and  engaged  to  fill  in  all  his  spare 
time  with  G.  1'".  I'"encty,  i;s(|.,  (Jueen's 
l)rintcr,  who  had  several  greenhouses,  a 
grajiery,  and  the  finest  residence  and  grounds 
in  the  Province.  Mr.  Iiehbington  also  had 
a  kind  of  supervision  (U'er  th.e  late  H.  (i. 
Ketchim"s  place,  also  the  late  judge  I'isher's, 
and  he  furnished  and  ])lante(.l  .\le.\  Gibson'.s 
flower  gardens  at  M.irysville. 

I'Tom  this  small  beginning  his  business  has 
grown  so  that  he  now  has  five  greenhouses  and 
a  freehcld  of  live  lots  of  land,  besides  renting 
one  acre  for  growing  celery,  onions,  lettuce, 
etc.  I'"or  his  local  trade  he  gives  his  attention 
chiefly  to  roses,  carnations,  chrysanthemums, 
smila.x,  and  bulbous  roots,  im|)orting  each 
year  from  Holland  many  thousand  tulips,  hya- 
cinths, naicissus,  lilies,  etc.  In  1S78  Mr. 
Hebbington  found,  .after  getting  established, 
that  he  hail  a  surplus  stock,  and  pur[)osed  try- 
ing his  luck  in  St.  John  with  the  first  baskets 
of  flowers  in  the  market, — ^  baskets  of  ver- 
benas, pansies,  petunias,  also  pot  plants,  roses, 
ger.iniums,  palms,  sword  ferns,  tuberous 
begonias,  etc.,  which  he  found  sold  at  a  good 
profit.  I'Toni  that  time  Mr.  Hebbington  has 
sold  thousands  of  plants,  having  had  five  sales 
each    year  at    Lockhart"s   auction    room,      lie 


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BIOORAPHICAI,    REVIFAV 


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was  the  first,  in  1874,  to  make  a  Moral  (lcsij,'n 
at  a  funeral,  which  hranih  of  tiie  i)iisiiiess  is 
now  a  specialty  of  his,  he  often  n.akin^  as 
many  as  ten  or  twelve  pieces  at  prominent 
funerals,  lie  also  sells  a  quantity  of  hecliliny 
pjants  in  Chatham,  Newcastle,  St.  Andrews, 
St.  Stephen,  and  Woodstock.  The  beautiful 
display  of  tulips  at  the  Dufferin  and  New 
Victoria  Hotels,  -St.  John,  as  well  as  Mr. 
T.  C.  .Mian's,  ex-Mayor  Whitehead's,  of 
l'"redericton,  also  .\le\  (iibson,  Marysville, 
were  supjilied  and  planted  by  .Mr.  Mebbini;- 
lim.  Besides  his  foreij;n  importation,  he 
buys  from  lioston.  New  York,  Chica>;o,  and 
Philadelphia  markets.  Mr.  Hebbington  has 
scores  of  prize  cards  from  the  Provincial  and 
Dominion  I'.xhibitions  of  1S70,  187S,  1S80, 
and  since. 

.'\t  the  present  time  Mr.  liebbin^ton  j^rows 
annually  four  thousand  heads  of  celery  and 
some  twenty  bands  of  onions.  His  j^arden 
and  grounds  in  the  months  of  July  and  Au!.;ust 
are  a  delight  to  the  beholder.  The  l-'rederic- 
lon  Ciliiiiicr  for  August  6,  1899,  had  the  fol- 
lowing notice: 

"A   Pi.Ai  1;  (II    Hi  \i  IV. 

''One  of  the  most  delightful  [)laces  in  the 
city  at  present  is  the  grounds  and  conserva- 
tories of  J.  Hebbington  S:  .Son  at  lower  end 
of  Charlotte  .Street;  and  citizens  having  guests 
here  sluuild  not  think  of  allowing  them  to  de- 
part without  first  making  a  visit  to  Hebbing- 
ton's,  where  they  are  assured  of  a  hearty 
welcome,  courteous  attention,  and  an  enchant- 
inir  visit.      The   level    lawn    is   as   smooth   as 


a  stretch  of  green  velvet,  and  is  surrounded 
by  close-clipped  and  fragrant  cedar  hedges. 
The  flower  beds  are  a  mass  of  gorgeous  lieauty, 
all  colors  of  nature's  garden  being  harmoni- 
ously blended  in  the  artistic  arrangement  of 
the  plants  and  llowers.  Here  are  all  the  new 
and  ])retty  flowers  and  the  much-loved  and 
old-fashioned  I'.nglish  double  hollyhocks  and 
bride's  bouquet,  asters,  sweet  peas  in  great 
array,  and  many  new  colors,  mignonette, 
candytuft,  alyssuiii,  verbenas,  and  (ither  lu.\u- 
rious  perennials.  .Scores  of  beautiful  bouquets 
are  being  made  up  every  day  to  cheer  a  sick- 
room or  to  ornament  a  tasteful  lady's  table." 

Mr.  Hebbington  is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of 
llnglanil,  a  comnuinicant  of  the  Church  of 
l'",ngland,  and  for  some  years  has  been  an 
usher  in  the  Cathedral.  He  was  superinten- 
dent of  a  .Sunday-school  at  the  Mills  for  about 
twelve  years.  In  the  fall  of  1.S72  Mr.  Heb- 
bington was  married  to  Miss  Sarah  Howtle, 
of  I'.sse.v,  P'-iigland ;  and  their  only  son,  J. 
William  Hebbington,  is  now  associated  with 
his  father  in  the  business,  the  tirm  being  |. 
Hebbington  &  .Son.  The  latter  was  formerly 
with  Rebstocks,  florists,  Huffalo,  N.Y.  He 
makes  yearly  trips  to  .Montreal  and  the  .States 
to  buy  goods.  He  is  (piite  a  genius  in  de- 
signinLT  and  mechanical  work. 


\RKIS     ALLAN,    a    well-known    and 

respected  citi/en  of  .St.  John,  a  native 

if  the    city,    was    born    in    August, 

son    of    Thomas    and    Jane    (Hookwa\) 


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Allan.  His  father,  wiin  was  lnnn  in  l.rndx- 
.sliirc,  Scothuul,  I'tnty  miles  fioni  dlasj^ow,  in 
I7yS,  cnii^iaUd  tii  New  Hiunswiik  in  1.S24, 
and  the  foUowinf;  year,  in  ((inipany  with  James 
jiarris,  es(al)]i^lu'il  tlu'  liisl  tninuliA'  in  tlie 
I'rnxince.  I'ntler  the  firm  name  of  Harris  & 
Allan,  they  started  luisiness  in  a  small  way, 
hut,  as  the  cciniitry  developed  and  the  |)i)|)ula- 
lioM  inereasi'd,  enlarj^a'd  tlieir  operations. 
'rhou;4h  their  works  wi'ie  twice  Imrned,  tiiey 
rebuilt  them,  eaeii  time  on  a  hirj^er  scale. 
Their  specialty  at  first  was  the  buildinj;  of 
steam-en<;ines  and  saw-mills.  Tiien  they 
made  sto\es,  and  still  later  railroad  cars  and 
I'ar-wheels;  and  in  this  tluy  eventually  did  an 
extensive  business.  Mr.  .Allan  coiitinuini;  in 
it  uji  to  the  time  of  his  death.  Mr.  Allan's 
wife,  Jane,  was  the  daui,diter  of  Ciiles  Ilookway, 
and  she  bore  liini  six  children,  namely: 
Thomas,  now  deceased,  and  Robert  R.,  who 
formed  the  firm  of  Allan  Brothers  in  the  foun- 
tliy  business  in  t'arltoii ;  Elizabeth  R.,  now 
deceased,  who  was  the  wife  of  James  I.  h'el- 
lows;  Harris;  liertba  A.,  who  is  the  wife  of 
George  J.  Schoeld,  of  .St.  John;  and  Mary,  the 
widow  of  Morris  Hest,  at  one  time  of  Wood- 
stock, X.  H.  Ml',  .\llan  was  Police  Commis- 
sioner for  the  town  of  Portland.  He  was 
|)resident  of  St.  vXiulrew's  Society  and  treas- 
urei-  of  St.  Stephen's  Clunch.  He  died  in 
June,   iiS6i;  and  bis  wife  died  in  1876. 

Harris  Allan  was  reared  in  St.  J<ihn,  and 
attended  the  ]niblic  schocds  until  he  was  fifteen 
years  of  aj^e,  when  be  he;;an  learninj;  the  busi- 
ness in  his  I'atlur's  foumby.  (loiufj;  to  h'red- 
ericton  in  1851,  be  established  the  first   foun- 


dr)'  ,it  that  |dace,  which  he  suhsetiuently 
operated  for  fifteen  years.  After  that  for  about 
two  )ears  be  was  engaj;ed  in  the  manufacture 
of  hypophosphates,  in  company  with  his 
brotlui  in  law,  .Mr.  fellows,  establishing  a 
plant  at  Calais,  Me.  On  his  return  to  .St. 
John,  Mr.  Allan  en^'aj;ed  in  the  brass  foundry 
Inisiness,  which  he  conducted  until  18S7. 
I'idm  iS8()to  I  iS(;7  be  carried  on  a  stove  and 
hardware  business,  and  at  the  end  of  that  tinje 
retired.  Mr.  ,\llan  has  Ijeen  mechanical  en- 
gineer for  the  St.  John  exhibition  since  its 
incc])tion.  For  five  years  during  his  residence 
in  Predericton  he  was  an  .Alderman  of  that 
city,  and  he  was  for  ten  years  an  Aldeiinan  for 
St.  John.  He  is  a  member  of  .St.  Aiulrew's 
.Societ)-,  of  the  Masonic  i-Vaternity,  and  of  the 
Knights  'I'emplars. 

In  1856  Mr.  .Alhiii  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Clara  Ann  Hurrington,  a  daughter  of 
P'rederick  Hurrington,  of  P",.\eter,  Devon,  P'.ng- 
land.  Mrs.  Clara  A.  Allan  died  in  1868, 
leaving  one  child,  John  l^uaics  Allan.  Mr. 
Allan  subsc(|uently  married  Margaret  .Anna, 
daughter  of  Captain  .\llen  .McLean,  of  St. 
John.  Two  children  have  been  born  of  this 
union,  neither  of  whom  is  now  living. 


H.I.IAM  HP:NRY  HARRISON,  of 
Sackville,  Westmorland  County, 
N.  li.,  who  is  now  in  his  eighty-seventh  year, 
comes  from  sturdy  P.nglish  stock.  He  is  a 
direct  descendant  of  John  Harrison,  who  was 
horn  in  Rillington,  Yorkshire,  I'jigland. 

In  1774  John  Harrison  emigrated  to  Amcr- 


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ica,  anil  sittlod  in  Maccan,  Cuniljcilanil 
C'onnty,  M.S.,  where  ho  leased  a  farm  fmni 
one  Mr,  Harnm  at  a  ri'ntal  of  twenty  pounils 
per  year.  Wliile  in  I'.nj^'land  he  married 
Sarah  I.ovell,  wIki  bore  him  nine  children. 
I.nke,  tiie  clde.st,  married  Tryijhena  Hent; 
John,  the  second  .son,  was  married  twice  (his 
first  wife  was  Dinah  I.inr.ley,  and  his  second 
wife  was  Charlotte  Mills);  Thomas,  the 
^raiiiltatluT  of  William  II.  Ilarrisim,  married 
iMarv  llenry:  and  William  niarried  Jane 
C'oates.  The  dauj^hters  were  married  as  fol- 
lows: Mary  to  Matthew  I..od<;e,  Sarah  to  James 
Urown,  Nancy  to  John  Lumley,  Hannah  to 
John  [.ambert,  and  I'.l  i/alietli  to  llenry  Kiir- 
lon,:;. 

Luke  Harrison,  son  of  Thomas  Harrison 
and  the  father  of  William  11.  Harrison,  was 
horn  at  Maccan,  N'.S. ,  Aii^aist  lo,  17H7,  and 
died  at  Siisse.v,  N.H. .  November  1  J,  iSr;^. 
He  served  an  ai)[)renticeship  as  l.lacksmith 
and  wheel  wri;;ht  in  his  Nova  Scotia  home,  and 
after  movinj:^  t"  Sussex,  N.  H.,  in  the  early 
part  of  the  present  century,  continued  at  his 
trade  throuf/Jiout  the  remaininj,^  years  of  his 
activity.  He  niarried  Hannah  I.od^e,  who 
was  lorn  June  3,  17.S7,  and  died  April  15, 
1S60.  They  had  five  children,  of  whom  their 
tirst-born,  William  llenry,  is  the  only  sur- 
vivor. Charles  Clement,  born  March  18,  1S17, 
died  Aui^ust  2.S,  iiS43,  unmarried;  Mary  Ann, 
horn  July  17,  1820,  niarried  J.  Nelson  Coates, 
of  Smith's  Creek,  Snsse.v,  N.  H. ,  and  died  in 
April,  1889;  Thomas  Albert,  born  March  15, 
1824,  married  Isabella  Stevenson,  of  St.  An- 
drews, N.  H.,  and   died  at  St.  John,  N.H.,  De- 


cember 31,  l8(j6j  Josei)h  I,odj;e,  born  July 
J5,  18J7,  married  Charlotte  Sni<ler,  of  Sus- 
sex,  N.  IV ,  and  died  April  4,   iSijl. 

John  Harrison,  who  emi|^rated  to  the  Mari- 
time Provinces,  was  a  relative  of  Ji^hn  Harri- 
son, the  inventor  of  the  chronometer.  John 
Harrison,  the  inventor,  was  horn  at  I'oulby, 
in  the  parish  of  Wra^ley,  near  I'ontrefact, 
Yorkshire,  in  May,  I''i93,  and  died  at  his 
home  in  lied  Lion  .Sipiare  in  177'').  He  re- 
ceived fioni  the  Uritish  government  the  |)ri/e 
of  twenty  thousand  pounds  sterlinj;dlfered  for  a 
niniiber  of  years  to  the  jicrson  who  should  suc- 
ceed in  inventing;  a  chronometer  satisfactory 
to  the  f^overnment. 

The  ori;,Mnal  \cV  /carinj;  date  Jime  30, 
1774,  written  by  John  Harrison,  the  emi- 
grant, to  his  friends  in  Lngland,  announcing 
his  arrival  in  Nova  Scotia  and  K'vinf,'  his  im- 
])ressions  of  tliO  new  country,  is  now  in  the 
])ossesgion  of  William  11.  Harrison.  'I'his 
letter,  with  others  of  later  date,  was  obtained 
by  William  H.  Harrison  in  1858,  while  on  a 
visit  to  the  (dd  home  in  Yorkshire. 

William  llenry  Harrison  was  born  July  JO, 
1813,  at  Sussex,  N.  H.  When  a  young  man 
he  moved  to  St.  John,  and  in  1838  entered 
into  partnership  with  Captain  Robeit  J'"ields, 
under  the  style  of  l-Melds  iS:  Harrison,  and 
carrieil  on  a  {^enend  business.  In  1839  he 
entered  the  e.r,|iloy  of  James  Hamilton,  whole- 
sale importer  and  commission  merchant,  whom 
he  succeeded  in  business  severr.l  years  later. 
He  afterward  went  into  business  with  C'harles 
W.  Herteaux,  under  the  style  of  W.  II.  Harri- 
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wholesale,  and  commission  business  for  a 
number  of  years.  In  I1S70  he  |)urihasetl  a 
l.irjje  farm  at  Sussex,  N.  H.,  adjoining;  tiie  old 
homestead  occupied  l)y  his  brotlu'r,  Joseph  L. 
lie  en^jaged  a  Scotch  fiiiincr  to  nianaj^e  tlu- 
fiirm  while  he  carried  on  business  in  St.  John, 
lie  moved  his  family  from  St.  John  to  .Susse.v, 
and  in  1X74  closed  up  his  business  in  St. 
John  and  dcv<iti-d  his  whol^'  attention  to  tarni- 
iny.  In  1877  he  sold  the  farm  to  Jnhn  Harnes. 
of  Najipan,  N.  .S. ,  and  moved  to  .'^ackville, 
N.  li.,  where  he  now  resides. 

lie  has  been  married  three  times.  11  is  first  \ 
wife,  Rebecca  .Sbicondi,  and  his  second  wife, 
Sarah  .Slocomb,  were  dauj;IUers  of  Jnbn  .Slo- 
comb,  of  Wilmot,  N.S.  Neither  of  them  left 
children.  In  1850  he  married  Lavinia  M. , 
daui;hlir  of  the  Rev.  Richard  Kiii^dit,  1)1)., 
a  Methodist  minister.  The  family  record 
shows  the  birth  of  eif^ht  children,  brieHy  men- 
tioned as  follows:  Richard  Knij^ht,  born  Au- 
t^ust  31,  i860,  married  Annie  Graham,  of  .Sus- 
sex', N.  1?.,  and  now  resides  in  ('.dorado 
Sjirings,  C^ol.,  l'.S..\.  ;  llar.nali  I.cjvcII,  born 
I'ebruary  1,  iSC)2,  died  December  20,  1863; 
William  lleniy,  born  May  ly,  i8('>3.  is  inan- 
aj^er  of  the  branch  of  the  llalifa.v  liankinj; 
Company  at  .Sackville,  N.  H.  ;  Charles  .\lli- 
son,  born  ( Jctobcr  5.  1864,  died  May  5,  1865; 
l<'rederick  Arthur  l.ovcll,  born  March  26, 
1 860,  is  in  charge  of  the  job  printiuLC  dc|iart- 
ment  of  the  Post  rrintini;  t'ompany  at 
Sackville,  X.  H.  ;  .Mbei't  'i'hotnton.  born 
August  I,  1867,  is  a  telegraph  operator 
in  the  employ  of  the  Postal  'rclegra|)h  and 
Cable  Ci>mpany,  New  York  l."ity;  Mary  Louisa 


wa.s  horn  May  27,  1869;  Frank  .Allison,  horn 
at  Sussex,  N.M. ,  December  22,  1870,  married 
i'Mora  S.  Anderson,  of  Sackville,  N.  H.,  and  is 
a  member  ol  the  law  firm  of  rowell.  Itcnnelt  vS: 
I  larrison. 

William  II.  Harrison  is  a  Liberal  Conserv- 
ative in  politics,  and  both  lu?  and  Mrs.  Harri- 
son are  members  of  the  Methodist  church. 
While  liviiij,'  in  .St.  John,  he  took  an  active 
])arl  in  the  educational  and  other  interests  of 
the  Methodist  church.  He  was  one  of  the 
trustees  of  Centenary  Methodist  Chinch,  .St. 
John,  before  the  j;reat  tire  of  1877,  and  was 
for  several  years  a  member  of  the  Hoard  of 
Regents  of  the  Mount  .Mlison  institutions 
at  Sackville,  N.M. 

Mr.  ][arrison,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  a  passenger  on  the  steamship  "Royal 
Tar,"  which  was  burned  wh.ile  on  her  way 
from  St.  John  to  I'ortlan;!,  .Me.,  in  Uctober, 
1836.  .\  large  number  of  passengers  were 
drowned,  and  he  is  iirob.ibly  the  only  person 
living  out  of  all  who  wi're  on  the  ill-fated 
steamer. 


AMi;S  K.NO.X,  ship-chandler,  St.  John, 
was  born  in  Rothesay,  Buteshire,  .Scot- 
land, in  1833,  son  of  John  and  .Marion 
(Walker)  Kno.\.  Coming  to  .New  Ihnnswick 
in  1855,  he  entered  the  employ  of  his  uncle, 
John  Walker,  who  established  himself  in  busi- 
ness at  .St.  John  in  i.Sjo.  and  became  an  ex- 
tensive sbi|)-owner.  .\ftei-  the  death  of  his 
uncle,  which  occurred  in  187(1,  Mr.  Knox  con- 
tinued the  business,  under  the  firm  nanu'  of 
John     Walker   &   Co.,    until    1877,    when    his 


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nephew,  \\';,lker  I'"irtli,  was  admitted  to  part- 
neishij).  I'Tdiii  that  tiiiv;  the  firm  oi  Knox  & 
l""irth  carried  on  tiie  l)u.siness  until  Mr.  I'irtli's 
retirement  in  1.SS2.  h'or  the  ]iast  sixteen 
years  Mr.  Knox  l;as  condueled  tlie  Iv.isiness 
alone,  being  pr(;|)rietor  of  (jne  ol  the  leading 
ship-chandlery  establi.ihments  in  the  city. 

In  1S5S  Mr.  Kiiox  w.is  united  in  marriage 
with  Miss  Annie  I'"arnier,  wl,  >  was  born  in  St. 
John,  daughter  of  Richard  i'"armer,  a  native  of 
^'nrkshire,  iMigiand.  The)' have  had  live  chil- 
dren, namely:  Captain  James  \^'alkei'  Knox, 
who  was  born  March  13,  KS63,  and  died  in 
Mong  Kong,  (.'hina,  March  13,  1S97;  .Marion, 
who  resides  at  home;  Richard,  wli<)  is  in  busi- 
ness with  his  father;  John;  and  Annie  Kno.x. 
CajHain  James  W.  Kn(ix  married  a  Miss  Allen, 
and  was  the  father  of  three  children  James 
Walker,  Howe  Allen,  and  Muriel.  Richard 
Knox  niarrietl  Josephine  Dick,  and  has  two 
children       lulith  and  I'ercy. 

.Mr,  Knox  belongs  to  the  Masonic  frater- 
nity, the  Independent  '.^rderof  Odd  h'ellows, 
and  the  boresters ;  also  to  the  Clan  McKenzie 
and  the  St.  y\ndrew's  Society,  antl  was  presi- 
dent of  the  latter  for  two  years.  lie  attends 
St.  .Andrew's  I'resbyteiian  church,  of  which  he 
is  a  trustee. 


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J'lia.l),  ship  chandler,  St.  John, 
was  born  in  .Springlield,  .\.I5.,  .Au- 
gust 22.  1.S41,  son  of  Henry  Thomas  and 
Sarah  (I'"airweather)  Hatfield.  lie  is  of  l.o)- 
alist  ancestry,  beini'  a  great  grandson  of  Daniel 
Hathekl,  w'.a)  came   fmm  New  \'<irk   State  to 


New  Mrunswick  in  1783,  and,  receiving  a 
grant  of  land  in  Springfield,  King.s  Coimty, 
fcdlowecl  general  farming  foi-  the  rest  of  his 
life.  The  maiden  name  of  ])aniel  Hatfield's 
wife  was  Mary  Drake,  and  his  children  were: 
Isaac,  Daniel,  Criah,  David,  Mary,  Annie, 
Jane,  Abbie,  I.ydia.  .Saiah,  and  Abraham,  all 
of  whom  were  born  in  .Springfiekl.  Isaac  1  bit- 
field, the  grai.i.(faiher,  who  was  a  i)rosperous 
farmer  of  Sjiringfield,  married  .Maria  Thomas, 
and  had  ten  children;  namely,  Daniel,  llemy 
Thomas,  D:ivid,  L'riah  Drake,  Isaac,  Samuel, 
llighly  Hrower,  Mar\,  b'annie,  :uul  I'.mma. 

Henry  Thomas  Hatfield,  the  father,  was 
born  in  .Springfield  in  iSio.  He  was  reared 
u|ion  a  farm;  and  he  tilled  the  soil  energeti- 
cally from  earl}'  manhood  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  Miuch  7,  iSSj.  He  served  as 
Deacon  of  the  Hajitist  church,  was  an  earnest 
advocate  of  tenijierance,  ;md  was  highly  le- 
spected  for  l.is  uprigl.l  character.  Sarah 
(l'"airwcatlier)  Hattieid,  his  wife,  was  also  de- 
scended from  lo\aI  ancestr}',  and  a  diui'diter  of 
Samuel  l-'airweather.  .She  became  the  mother 
of  fourteen  children,  of  whom  eight  are  living, 
namely:  Rachel;  .Samuel  b".,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch;  Janies  R.  ;  Abncr;  Walter  1'.; 
John  Wesley;  Ciilbert  Corev ;  aiui  D.ademia. 
The  others  were :  Maria 'I'homas,  who  nuuried 
Jacob  Morrell,  and  died  March  30,  iSfiS; 
Daniel;  Isaac;  l'"annie;  Annie  Augusta;  and 
.Sarah.  Tlie  mothei'  is  still  li\ing.  .She  was 
eighty  vears  (dd  on  January  16,   iStjcS. 

.Samuel  bairweather  H.itfield  resided  upon 
the  home  farm  and  assisted  in  its  cultivation 
until  June  20,  iSfuS,  when  he  came  to  .St.  John. 


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lie  lias  carried  on  shiiiiliaiulkM-y  successfully 
for  the  past  twenly-fivc  years,  ami  is  widely 
and  favorably  known  among  shipmasters. 

On  November  4,  1.S70,  Mr.  Hatfield  was 
united  in  marriat;e  with  Jer.nette  IMaud  Corey, 
who  was  born  in  (Jueens  County,  New  Uruns- 
wick,  of  Scotch  ancestry.  .She  is  a  dau';-|Uer 
of  William  Corey,  and  sister  to  the  Rev. 
\V.  A.  Corey,  a  liaptist  minister.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  JIatfield  are  members  of  the  baptist 
church. 

/^TkcIRC.]".  WI'.ST  JOXK.S,  of  St.  John, 
V^J      X.15. ,  is  a   successful    business   man, 
and  is  widely  and  favorably  known   in  athletic, 
military,    and   political    circles.      Horn    in    St. 
John,    May    1,    iSf)4,    he    is   a    son   of    Simeon 
Jones  and  a  direct  descendant  of  Josiah  Jones, 
who  removed  from  Xova  Scotia   to   St.  John  in 
1783.       Thomas    Jones,    his    iiaternal     grand- 
father,   who   married    a    Miss    Caverhill,    came 
from   Xova  Scotia,    and,    locating    on    the    St. 
John   River,  spent    his   remaining  days  in  this 
vicinity,  dying  at  the  venerable  age  of   ninety 
years. 

A  condensed  sketch  of  the  life  of  Simeon 
Jones,  a  well-known  and  respected  citi/en  ol 
St.  John,  of  xvliich  he  was  for  some  years 
Mayor,  may  be  foinid  in  tlie  scdunie  entitled 
"Public  Men  of  Canada"  and  in  ■■Represent- 
ative Canadians." 

Ceorgc  \V.  Jones  in  his  youth  was  for  five 
years  a  student  in  Merchiston  School  at  b'.din- 
burgh,  Scotland.  Returning  lionie  in  iSS:;, 
eiplipped  with  a  good  eilucali(in,  he  was  en- 
gaged   the   fcdlowing    year    as   a  clerk    in    the 


dry-goods  store  of  Daniel  &  Hoyd,  a  wholesale 
establishment;  and  in  1SS4  he  entered  his 
father's  brewery  to  learn  the  business.  In 
1893  he  and  his  brothers  through  their  father's 
genernsitv  became  the  proprietors  of  the  brew- 
ery, and  have  since  managed  it  most  advan- 
tageously, although  the  business  Is  still  carried 
on  under  the  name  of  its  founder,  Simei-n 
Jones.  For  ten  years  he  has  been  a  member 
of  the  St.  John  P  )ard  of  Trade. 

Mr.  Jones  is  a  noted  athlete,  and  as  a  cham- 
pion in  different  games  is  known  at   home  and 
abroad.      While  he  was  in   school   he  was  cap- 
tain of  both  the   college   fuotl)all   and   the  di- 
lege  cricket  teams.      Since  his    retiun   be   has 
been    captain    of    the    Canadian    International 
Cricket   Team,  and    be  was  with   the   Canadian 
team  that   went  to   Kngland   in    i.SS;.      P'or  a 
number  of   years   he   has  been    identitled    with 
military    matters.        In     1.SS6    he    joined    the 
Third   Regiment,  Canadian   Artillery,  as   Sub- 
l.ieutenant,  and  on    September   2.S,    i,S(;7,  was 
promoted  to  the  command   and   given   the   rank 
of   Lieutenant  Colonel.      This    is  a  splendidly 
drilled    corps,    and    has    been    highly   compli- 
mented.     Mr.    Jones  is  a  Conservative  in  p<di- 
tics.      He  is  a  member  of   L'nion    Lodge.   I'".  & 
A.  M.,  of    Portland.   X.H.,  but   has  refused   to 
hidd   any  chairs  tliereiii.      lie   is  a  mendier  of 
the  Church  of   ICngland,  and  for  two   years   he 
has  served  as  vestryman. 

t)n  the  6lh  of  January,  1S97,  Mr.  Jones 
married  Mabel  Ridt,  daughter  of  Colonel 
George  k<dt  White,  of  (Juebec,  who  for  sev- 
eral years  was  Conniiaiider  ol  the  l'.i,L;hth 
Royal  Rillos. 


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)I".  liAROX  WII.SOX.  nHTcliiint  t;iiloi-, 
St.  Jiihii,  was  Ixnn  in  this  city,  N'n- 
Nciiibcr  15,  1X64,  sciii  111  Matthew 
aiul  Melissa  (("njdsiie)  Wilsnn,  1 1  is  i;iaiui- 
latluT,  Samuel  W'ilscm,  was  a  native  nt  the 
north  lit  Ireland,  where  he  learned  the  tailnr'.s 
tiade.  In  1X^7  he  enii_i;raled  to  New  Mruns- 
wiek,  and,  settling;  in  St.  John,  estahiisheil 
himself  in  the  lailminL;'  'nnsiness,  which  he 
liilliiwed  until  his  death.  He  was  a  member 
(it  .St.  Patrick's  Society.  lie  married  Marga- 
ret .Stilt,  and  had  a  famil)'  of  ten  children; 
nameh',  James,  Mathew,  Samuel,  Thomas 
William,  jnhn,  l-!lizaheth,  Maj;y;ie,  Rebecca, 
Annie,  am.  Jane,  all  of  whom  are  livinj;  ex- 
cept Malhew.  Mlizalieth  is  the  wife  of  Mr. 
Murray,  of  Moncton,  N.I'.  Maniple  niarried 
("(donel  A.  ISlaine,  of  .St.  John.  Rebecca  is 
the  wife  ol  Thomas  Keys,  of  this  cit\'.  Amiie 
married  Ca|)tain  l^ohcrt  I-'leminj;.  Jane  is  the 
wife  of  Job  Jones,  of  Moncton. 

Mathew  Wilson,  father  of  l,e  Iiaion,  was 
born  in  the  north  of  Ireland  in  lS^Ti,  and  came 
to  New  linmswick  with  his  parents  in  1S17. 
.After  learning'  the  tailor's  trade  with  his 
father,  he  opened  an  establ  ishment  on  his  own 
aecoinit,  eonductini;  it  successfnlh  until  his 
death,  which  occmred  Jinie  11,  iSjfi.  lie  is 
survived  by  his  wife,  Melissa,  who  is  a  daugh- 
ter of  Charles  Godsoe,  and  bv  ban'  of  their  si.\ 
chiLlren;  namely,  I.e  liamn,  T.  .Xmos,  Mat- 
thew \'. ,  and  I'lederick  I'". 

I.e  Karon  Wilson  was  educated  in  the  [lublic 
schools  of  .St.  John.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he 
connnenced  to  learn  the  tailor's  trade  with 
George   .Salmon,    and    later  attended   the    [ohn 


J.  Mitchell  culling  school  in  New  York.  (In 
March  1,  1.S86,  he  established  himself  in  busi- 
ness, being  the  third  representative  of  the  fam- 
ily in  a  direct  line  to  follow  the  same  trade, 
and  one  of  tlu'  leading  merchant  tailois  in  the 
city. 

( )n  January  9,  i.SSij,  Mi-.  Wilson  man  led 
Miss  Mary  Thompson,  daughter  of  William 
Thiinipson,  a  native  of  the  north  of  lieland. 
They  ha\e  fom-  chililren--  Harr\-,  Keltic,  lled- 
le\   ( 'ooper,  and  b'rank  G. 

Ml'.  Wilson  belongs  to  .\lbion  Lodge, 
A.  ]•■.  &  A.  .M.,  has  been  Ili-h  I'riest  of  the 
Chapter,  and  is  a  member  of  l)e  Mola\-  Precep- 
tor}-, Knights  Templar.  lie  also  belongs  to 
I'nion  Lodge,  No.  j.  Knights  of  Pvthias  of 
St.  John,  and  to  other  orders. 


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MOS  ()GI)T",N  has  foi-  many  years  been 
intimately  associated  with  the  devel- 
ipnient  of  the  tr.annfactiiring  and 
commercial  interests  of  Sackville,  N.  H., 
and  is  to-ilay  nnmbered  amoni;  its  substantial 
business  men.  A  son  of  the  late  Henry 
Ogden,  he  was  born  in  this  town,  March  7, 
1.SJ4. 

John  ()g(len,  his  |>aternal  giandfather,  was 
born  in  a  town  on  the  lludsin  River,  in  New- 
York  .State,  where  he  was  living  at  the  time  of 
the  breaking  out  of  the  .\mericaii  Revolu- 
ti(m.  'Then,  with  two  of  his  brothers,  Henry 
and  liloomcr,  he  migrated  to  (^.-niada,  where 
they  ,-dl  settled  when  \-ery  yoimg  men. 
liloonier  Ogden  located  in  Albert  County, 
New  Hrunswick.  but  the  others  for  a  few  years 


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wiirkftl  as  farm  hands  in  various  parts  a( 
what  is  now  the  Dominion  ol  Canada.  Alter 
ills  inarria;;o  with  Nani-y,  (lau!j;htcr  of  John 
I'awcett,  of  Sackviilo,  Wustmnrland  (Jmnty, 
John  ( )jj;dcn  settled  on  a  farm  in  this  locality, 
where  they  hotli  lived  to  a  ripe  old  aj;'e.  Hav- 
ing' heen  a  Loyalist,  he  received  from  the 
i'ji^lish  ,i;'overiinient  a  ,L;raiit  of  live  hundreil 
acr;s  of  land  at  River  Philip,  Nova  Scotia, 
and  an  annual  pension  of  ten  |V)unds,  as  a 
reward  for  his  liilelity  to  the  crown.  lie 
reared  cij^ht  children,  si.v  hoys  and  two 
daughters,    Henry   hein^;'   the   second   son. 

Henry  Ogdcn  was  horn  at  the  homestead  in 
Sackviilo.  Learning  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith 
in  early  manhood,  he  followed  it  until  a  few 
years  |)rior  to  his  death,  which  occui'red  at 
the  venerahle  age  of  eighty-si.x  years.  Indus- 
trious and  thrifty,  guided  through  life  by  high 
moral  principles,  he  was  highly  esteemed  as  a 
man  and  as  a  citizen.  He  attended  the  Meth- 
odist church,  of  which  his  wife,  .Sarah,  was  a 
member.  .She  was  a  daughter  of  .N'ehemiah 
.;\yer,  of  .Sackville,  and  she  preceded  her  hus- 
band to  the  better  land,  passing  away  at  the 
age  of  si.\tv-nine  years.  Of  their  three  chil- 
dren two  are  living — Amos  and  William. 
'I'he  latter  married  .Mice  llarnes,  daughter  of 
liedford  Harnes,  of  .Sackville,  and  has  threi.' 
children —  h'tliel,  (Ireta,  and  Mary. 

Amos  Ogden  accpiired  a  practical  knowl- 
edge of  the  common  branches  of  learning  in 
the  .Sackville  schools,  and  wliile  vet  a  ycjung 
man  e.\hibiteil  great  business  capacity.  He- 
gimiing  the  manufacture  of  lumber  on  his  own 
account,  be  has  since  continued    in   that    busi- 


ness with  eminent  success,  and  has  also  been 
largely  interested  in  shipping  from  tliis  port. 

.\  man  of  sterling  integrit\'  and  high  moral 
character,  he  has  often  been  called  to  serve 
the  public  in  places  of  responsibilitv,  and  as 
an  official  has  always  proved  himself  worthy  of 
the  trust  reposed  in  him  by  his  fellow-men. 
I'oi'  fom'teen  yi'ars  he  was  County  Councillor, 
ten  years  of  the  time  serving  as  warden  of  the 
Cotmcil,  and  being  also  on  many  of  the  im- 
portant committees.  In  p(ditii's  he  is  a  firm 
supporter  of  the  principles  |iromulg.ited  by 
the  ('onser\  itive  paity. 

Mr.  Ogden  has  bi'cn  three  times  married. 
I  lis  first  wife,  Mary  Jaiu',  daughter  of  George 
Black,  of  U(U-chester,  N.l!. ,  died  at  the  age  of 
fifty-three  years.  .She  bore  him  four  children, 
ol  whom  but  one  is  living,  namely:  .Annie, 
who  is  the  wife  of  James  R.  .\yer,  of  .Sack- 
ville. and  has  two  children  — -Marjory  and 
iJoris.  His  second  wife,  Jane,  daughter  of 
'I'homas  ("hri^tie.  of  Nova  .Scotia,  died  at  the 
age  ol  lifty-three  years,  lea\'ing  no  children. 
Mr.  Ogden  sid)sefpieritly  married  .Mrs.  I'lliza 
Lewis,  horn  Barnes,  daughter  of  .Silas  Barnes, 
of  Nova  .Scotia. 


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^Oll.\    lli;\m'  II.XRDIXC,  was  hinn  in 

St.  John,  J.muai)-  J,  iSi.S.  His  father 
was  riionias  Harding,  and  his  paternal 
giandfalher,  Willi, im  Harding,  the  Loyalist, 
who  came  to  New  Jhunswick  in  i"N,i,  ami 
settled  in  .St.  John.  .\fter  linishiug  his  edu- 
cation at  Horton  Aiadem\,  N.S.,  John  Jlenry 
Harding  went  into  the  dr}-go(]ds  business;  and 


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at  a  later  poiind  he  was  inv  live  ycais  hdok- 
kccpur  with  Sohiiiion  llurscy,  a  haiikcf  aiui 
liiniber  iiK'ichaiit.  In  1X46  Mi-.  Ilardiiij;' 
miiVL'd  til  Sin|i|)ei;"aii,  N.H. ,  and,  in  riini|ian\' 
with  William  (i.  Weir  and  the  linn.  Jn.sepii 
C'nnard,  (if  Miraniiehi,  eieeted  a  liiinlier  mill, 
whieh  he  (iperated  lor  three  years.  lie  then 
removed  the  mill  to  Newea.stle,  N.H. ,  wheri' 
ioi-  the  ne.xt  ten  years  he  earried  on  a  lumber 
business  anil  kept  a  L;eiieial  store;  also  built 
.several  ships.  In  iS7ohe  was  appointed  I'ro- 
vineial  .Agent  of  the  JJepartmeiit  of  .Marine 
anil  I'isberies,  and  served  until  1S94,  when  he 
was  retired,  and  suceeeded  by  his  son  l''red- 
eriik. 

Mr.  Ilarilini;  was  married  in  Septemlier, 
1846,  to  Mar_\-,  iiau;^hter  of  William  Spurr,  of 
UridLjetnwn,  and  sislei-  of  J.  l)e  Wolfe  S|)urr, 
of  St.  John.  lie  has  four  ehildien  livini;', 
namely:  James  Spurr,  broker  and  commission 
merchant,  of  St.  John;  Charles  Spurr;  I''reiler- 
ick  Johnson;  and  l-'.mma  Amelia,  wife  of  J.  T. 
McHride,  of  Montieal.  The  f:;(ilden  wedding 
anni\'ersaiy  of  -Mr.  anci  Mrs.  1  lardini;  was  cele- 
biated  in   I  SijCi. 


kl('ll.\i:i.  UN'.W,  a  successful  brick 
inanufacturei'  of  J''ii'dei  icton,  \'n\k 
('ount\,  was  born  in  Kin^s 
County,  New  Brunswick,  in  I  •'^45,  son  ol 
Michael  and  Julia  (O'Donnell)  Ryan. 

Michael  J'ivan,  Sr. ,  was  born  in  Tippeiary 
Coiintv,  Ireland,  whence  he  came  to  Xew 
1)1  imswick  as  a  \  ouul;  man.  DuiiiiL;  the  lirst 
years   in    his  new  home   he    followed    larminj;, 


and  later  hi'  took  up  the  manufaiture  of  brick, 
at  St.  John.  C"oming  to  I'"rederieton  in  i.Sjt, 
for  three  veais  he  made  brick  for  a  Mr.  ]Moc';, 
a  mason.  His  ri'maining  )'i'ars  of  activity 
wi-re  devoted  to  faiaiiini;.  1  Ii'  died  at  eii^Iity- 
two  years  of  aye.  Ills  wife  was  also  a  native 
of  County  'rijiperary,  Iridand.  She  died 
N'oimj;,  leasing  four  children,  of  whom  three 
are  li\  ing. 

Michael  R\an,  the  third  child,  was  tpiitc 
youiii;'  when  the  famih'  came  to  b'ledericton. 
He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of 
this  place,  one  of  his  teachers  beinij;  Solomon 
Denton,  and  at  the  chapel  schocd.  lie  subse- 
quent I  v  went  to  the  I'nited  States,  where  he 
engay;ed  in  lumbei'  business  until  1^7^.  Ke- 
tiniiin;;'  to  l*"redericton,  he  entered  into  ])artner- 
ship  with  his  brother  under  the  st\Ie  of  Ryan 
liiolhers,  and  for  nine  years  thc\-  did  a  good 
business  in  the  manufacture  of  biick.  Michael 
subsetpiently  i)urehased  his  bmther's  interest, 
and  has  since  earried  on  the  business  alone, 
lie  makes  a  first-class  article,  and  has  supplied 
the  biick  for  many  of  the  lar;;e  buildings  in 
this  \'icinitv,  incliiiling  the  Xormal  School, 
Citv  Hall,  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute,  and 
man_\'  of  the  govenunenl  buildings.  He  has 
a  diploma  and  medal  foi-  brick  and  tile  sent  to 
the  Colonial  .\id  Indian  M.vhibitinn,  l.oiuhju, 
in  iSST).  The  lirst  \ear  he  nianufai  turi'd  lour 
lumdied  thousand  by  hand,  but  now,  with  the 
assistanie  of  sti'ani,  burning  five  kilns  a  season, 
he  has  increased  his  annual  production  to  be- 
tween one  and  Iwi)  million  111  ick.  In  polities 
Mr.  I\\aii  is  a  (ioiiservat  ive.  In  religion  he 
is  a   niendiei    of    the    Roman   C'alholic   chinch. 


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He  belonjjs  to  various  insurance  orders,  and 
is  now  one  of  tiie  representatives  for  Welling- 
ton Ward  in  the  City  Council. 

In  1.S73  Mr.  Kyaii  was  niairii'd  at  l''iederic- 
ton,  N.K.,  to  Miss  Mary  Rowan,  of  that  jilace. 
J-'ive  children,  three  sons  and  two  dauj^hters, 
have  blessed  their  union,  namely:  l-'rederiik 
James,  wiio  is  in  conip.uiv  with  Ills  tatiu  r  in 
the  jjriikyard;  Arthur  John,  who  is  in  the  (huj; 
business  in  I'redei  ictun  ;    Thomas;   Annie;  and 

Mary. 

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I.l'Rh:D  MARKllAM,  maiiaginn direc- 
tor of  the  S/iii  Printing'  Company 
(Linuted),  St.  JfjJin,  N.H.,  was  born 
in  I-incolnshiie,  I'.ngland,  on  l''el)ruary  26, 
i,S4i.  .After  icceiving  a  grammar-scliooi  edu- 
cation, lie  was  emphned  in  tlie  railwa)-  and 
dock  service  until  18(14,  when  he  sailed  for 
the  United  States  in  the  sleanisinp  "liohe- 
niian."  The  voyage  terminated  disastrously, 
the  vessel  beiiii;  wiecked  near  I'ortland,  Me  , 
on  ]''ebruary  22  of  tiiat  year,  at  whicii  time 
forty-two  of  the  jiassengers  weit  drowned.  Mi'. 
Markham  was  emi)loyed  on  the  Grand  I'runk 
Railway  at  I'ortland  and  J^oston  for  nearly  two 
years,  after  which  lie  was  engaged  as  clerk  on 
the  International  ('iim|iany's  steamer  ".New 
Jhunswick,"  plying  between  Hoston,  Mass., 
and  St.  John,  N.H.  In  .Aiiril,  1866,  lie  look 
charge,  for  an  Amei  ican  companv,  of  the  Man- 
ganese iMines  at  Hammond  \'alc,  Kings 
County,  X.H.,  wiicre  he  li\ed  for  twcnly-fivi' 
years,  and  where  lie  established  a  mining  \  il- 
lage,  which  was  named  Markhamville.  He 
succeeded    in    making    these    mines    the    most 


famous  manganese  mines  on  the  continent. 
Mr.  Markiiam  was  Warden  of  Kings  County 
when  the  Mar(|uis  of  l.ornc  and  the  rrincess 
Louise  \isite(l  New  lirunswick,  and  piesented 
an  address  to  them  at  Sussex.  In  i.S,Sc)  he  was 
ap|)()inted  Senior  Major  of  the  biighth  Princess 
Louise  Ilussar.s,  and  in  i.Syf)  was  gazetted  Lieu- 
tenant C'olonel  in  the  militia.  He  is  vice- 
pie  ident  of  the  I'rovincial  Rille  .Association, 
and  president  of  the  Canadian  Cavalry  ./\sso- 
ciation.  In  iSiji  he  bought  tiie  St.  John 
Dtiily  Snii  newspaper,  and  on  the  oiganizatinn 
of  tiie  Sim  I'rinling  Comp.my  was  a|)])ointed 
managing  director. 

C(donel  Markham  is  a  I'asl  I'resident  of  St. 
Cicorge's  .Societv  and  a  Knight  Templar.  He 
is  \  ice-president  of  the  iseystcme  T'ire  Insur- 
ance C'ompaii}'  and  a  director  of  the  Tictou 
Charcoal  Iron  Company.  In  p(ditics  he  is  an 
active  Coiiserxat i\e.  In  religion  he  is  an 
Lpiscopalian  I  L-  was  married  in  November, 
\'A(\C),  to  .Naid.i,  duu^liter  of  the  lale  John  L. 
'Tmnbull.  II  is  family  consi-ts  of  two  sons 
anil  four  dau^hlers. 


'•TI;T1I1;N  .S.  H.M.L,  ..f  the  whole- 
^,_  J  sale  grocery  firm  of  Hall  iS;  T'aii-- 
weather,  Limited,  .St.  John,  was  born 
in  Amia|)id  is,  N..S.,  in  iSjCi,  son  of  James  and 
Jane  (Thorne)  Hall.  His  ancestors  on  both 
sides  were  Loyalists,  who  removed  to  thi' 
Maritime  Tinxinccs  immediately  alter  the  close 
of  the  ..American  Revolution,  the  Halls  coming 
Irom  Massachusetts  and  the  'Thornes  from  New 
York. 


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Stt'plien  S.  Hall  came  tn  St.  Joliii  in  1843, 
and,  comnicruin};  liis  Inisiness  life  a.s  a  <lry- 
j;<"iils  clerk  with  Charles  Ketchuni,  was  later 
with  iv.  r.  McCiiveii  in  the  same  liiu'  dl  trade 
on  Dock  Street.  lie  siil)sei|iientl\  worked  un 
Smith  Wharl  fur  his  nnele,  H.  W.  Thinne, 
whom  he  left  to  enter  the  employ  ot  J.  V. 
Troop;  and,  when  Mr.  Troop  went  into  the 
shippinj;  business,  Mi-.  Hall  enj.;a,:;ed  in  the 
wholesale  j^roeery  trade.  lie  coiuhRted  busi- 
ness alone  from  1S51  to  1^5-),  when  he  foinied 
a  copartnership  with  Charles  II.  l'"airweather. 
l'"or  many  years  they  were  extensive  floin"  deal- 
ers. They  continued  in  business  until  the 
death  of  Mr.  I'"airweather  in  June,  1S94,  since 
which  time  the  firm  has  been  known  under  its 
jiresent  title  of  llall&  l'"air weather,  Limited. 
The  concern  is  still  iransactiug  a  laif;e  whole- 
sale business,  and  is  under  the  mana;;ement  of 
Mr.  S.  S.  ])e  h'orrest. 

In  1851  Mr.  Hall  married  a  daughter  of  the 
late  Israel  ]""ellows,  md  a  sister  of  James  I. 
l''ellows,  formerly  of  St.  John.  Mrs.  flail  was 
burn  in  Annaixilis  County,  .\ova  Scotia ;  and 
her  ancestors  were  Loyalists.  She  became  the 
mother  of  seven  children,  naniel)' :  l-'lorence, 
now  deceased,  who  married  !•'.  K.  h'airweather ; 
Mabel,  who  married  Dr.  McMurdo,  of  the 
United  .Slates  .Ainiv;  Manetta,  accidentally 
burned  to  death  in  childhood;  Henry  ]•'., 
who  is  now  at  the  Klondike  gold  fields;  Her- 
bert, who  is  cnltivatin;;'  the  farm  in  Capetown, 
.\.15.,  formerly  owned  by  the  Hon.  HuL;h 
Johnson;  Lthelwyne,  who  is  residiui,' at  home; 
and  Stephen,  the  eldest  son,  who  was  in  busi- 
ness with  his  father,  and  is  no  longer  living. 


Politically,  Mr.  Hall  is  a  Con.servativc.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Church  of  JMigland,  and  is 
deeply  interested  in  religions  affairs,  ha\ing 
been  pKjminently  idcnlilicd  for  many  years  wiih 
the  Stone  Church,  of  which  he  was  formerl)'  a 
\'estr\nian.  Mr.  Hall  is  now  agent  foi-  the 
l'h(»;nix  l''ire  Assurance  Company  of  London. 


f?)T('.\'.  DAVID  WARK,  LL.  D..  of  I'led- 
I'l  icton,  \.H.,  has  the  distinctitm  of 
icing  the  oldest  living  senator  in 
the  Dominion  of  Canada.  He  was  born  I'eb- 
ruary  ly,  1804,  near  the  city  of  Loiulondcrry, 
Ireland.  He  is  of  pure  .Scotch  descent,  some 
of  his  early  ancestors  having  been  in  the 
company  of  inmiigrants  who  went  from  -Scot- 
laud  in  the  time  of  James  I.  to  the  north  of 
Ireland  to  rcpopulatc  llu'  country  after  the 
severe  wars  of  that  jn'riod.  One  of  them  al  a 
later  date  was  a  defender  of  Londonderry  dur- 
ing a  ])rotracte(l  siege;  and  his  wife,  during 
the  unsettled  jieriod  when  the  ]'".nglish  were 
making  fre(|ueiil  incursions  thiough  the  cmin- 
tr\-,  was  forced  to  take  her  children  and  hastily 
leave  the  house  to  avoid  ca|)tnre.  -She  found 
no  way  of  obtaining  food,  and  .soon  starvation 
cuiifronted  her.  .Sadl_\-  she  thought  of  the 
large  chest,  brought  from  .Scotland  bv  the 
Wark  family,  capable  of  hoUling  eight  barrels 
of  oatmeal,  then  standing  well  filled  in  her 
home.  Rather  than  see  her  children  w.mt, 
this  pluck}-  woman  relurneil  to  her  house, 
which  was  filled  with  Lnglish  soldiers;  and, 
walking  through  their  midst,  filled  her  .apron 
with   meal    from   the   chest,    and    then    calmly 


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made  hur  vvny  "lit,  1(.m\  iii^  thi'iii  iiniU'  with  as- 
tonishment. 

The  paternal  j;ian(lf;ither  ol  l);i\iil  Wark  was 
a  lileliih;,'  (aiincr  in  I.cin<l(in(leii\ ,  and  his  JKime- 
.stead  property  descended  to  his  son,  wiio  was 
David's  father.  The  latter  married  a  Miss 
MacAiloo,  who  was  a  direct  descendant  of  the 
Camerons,  and  wiiose  ancestors,  as  is  shown  i)y 
tlie  term  ".Mac,"  which  in  Scotch  sij;nirics 
son,  were  .sons  of  Adoo. 

l)a\id  Wark  obtained  his  elementaiy  cdnca- 
tion  in  tlic  common  schools  of  Londonderry, 
and  pursued  more  ad\anied  studies  under  tiie 
tutorsiiip  of  the  resident  rrcsl)\lerian  clergy- 
man. In  1825  he  came  to  New  Brunswick, 
and  five  years  later  locateil  in  Kichihncto, 
where  he  was  for  a  .short  time  enii)loyed  as  a 
clerk  in  a  country  store,  and  afterward  tanj;iU 
school  si.v  years.  On  ^ivinj;'  up  his  school  he 
there  ojiened  a  store  for  t;eiieral  merchandise, 
and  snhseipiently  emharked  in  the  hniiber  busi- 
ness, which  he  carried  on  with  eminent  success 
for  forty  years,  llaxiu},'  thus  accumulated  a 
t'omiictciicy,  ]\Ir.  W'aik  retired  from  commer- 
cial i)ursuits,  and  in  1S71  removed  to  l''red- 
ericlon. 

l-'or  several  yi'ars  he  was  a  Judye  of  the 
C'onit  of  t'ommon  I'leas,  liohlin;;  otiice  until 
that  court  was  abolishetl  to  make  room  for  a 
county  court.  Mr.  Wark  has  always  been 
identified  in  politics  with  the  Liberals,  and 
has  been  veiy  active  in  |iublic  affairs.  lie 
was  elected  to  the  New  liiimswick  i  louse  of 
Asscnddy  in  December,  1S4J,  and  a.^'ain  in 
1846,  and  sat  eif,dit  years  in  that  House.  lie 
served  on  more  committees  in  one  session  than 


any  other  member,  the  ten  committees  to  which 
he  belon;;ed  including;  those  on  trade  and  eiln- 
cation.  He  was  then  appointed  to  a  scat  in 
the  l.egislati\i-  Council,  which  he  tilled  for  six- 
teen years,  during  which  he  was  for  some  years 
a  member  of  the  executive  f;o\ernment  and  at 
one  lime  Receiver  (ieneral.  In  1X67  Ik-  was 
snnmioncd  to  a  seat  in  tlu-  .Senate  of  the  Do- 
minion of  (!anada,  which  lie  has  tilled  for 
thirty-two  years;  and  it  is  said  that  he  is  now 
(dder  than  any  mentber  of  the  lmi)erial  Parlia- 
ment or  the  le{;islature  of  any  of  the  colonies 
of  the  liriti^h  Mmpire.  Duiiuj^  the  last  ses- 
sion, desjiite  his  advanced  years,  lu'  spoke  foi' 
an  hour  in  the  .Senate,  and  reeeiveil  from  the 
presiilent  hij,d)  compliments  for  his  address. 
While  in  the  Legislative  Coimcil  he  acted  as 
C'ouncilloi-  in  the  f^overnmeiit  of  the  Province 
at  different  times,  and  in  the  .Senate  has  served 
on  connnittees  on  banking'  and  on  conmierce, 
which  also  has  charge  of  railways,  and  on  the 
joint  committees  of  both  llmises  on  [)rinting 
and  on  libraries,  etc.  J  le  took  an  active  part 
in  reforming  the  chief  educational  institutions 
of  the  Province  when  the  Legislature  substi- 
tntetl  for  King's  College  the  L'niversity  of 
New  Prunswick  ;  and  he  was  for  twenty  years 
a  member  of  the  -Senate  of  the  l'ni\ersity, 
which  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Laws.  During  the  annexation  excitement  of 
some  years  ago  Mr.  Wark  wrote  to  General 
liutler  a  reply  which  excited  mnch  inteiest. 

Mr.  Wark  married  in  1.S60  Llizabeth  ,\nnie 
Murphy,  who  was  bmn  in  SlieHield,  iMigland, 
and  whose  family  is  an  old  Provincial  one, 
having  come  here  previous   to  the    Royalists. 


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The  only  child  burn  of  their  uninn  lives 
in  Littleton,  \.  11.  Mr.  Wark  has  been  a 
nuiiiliiT  (if  the  I'resliylerian  ihinLli  >inie  his 
early  manhood,  and  has  been  urged  to  aerept 
the  position  (il  I'llder,  but  has  steadily  refused. 
While  in  Kiehibneto  he  was  a  trustee  and  the 
treasurer  of  the  church.  Although  ninety-four 
years  old,  he  is  still  h.ilr  and  active,  and  sa\s  that 
he  can  saw  wood.  Mis  memory,  always  reten- 
tive, is  remarkable  as  regards  names  and  cl.ites; 
and,  with  the  exception  of  a  slight  deafness,  he 
retains  his  faculties  and  strength  to  an  eminent 
degree,  being  able  to  write  with  a  firmer  hand 
than  man)'  a  one  of  half  his  years. 


•AMUIiL  CROTllI'R.S,  of  the  linn  of 
C'idlhers,  llrndersoii  v^  Wilson,  car- 
'^  "^^  riage  manufacturers  of  St.  John,  ha.s 
been  prominently  identified  with  the  business 
interests  of  St.  John  since  1.S52,  and  is  one  of 
the  lepresuntative  men  of  the  city.  He  was 
born  in  St.  John  in  iSjy.  Ills  parents,  John 
and  Margaret  ('I'ate)  Crothers,  came  to  Amer- 
ica from  the  north  of  Ireland  when  young. 
John  Crothers,  who  was  a  shoemaker  by  trade, 
died  in  1850  at  the  age  of  rifly-.seven  years ; 
and  his  wife,  Mrs.  Margaret  T.  Crothers,  died 
at  the  age  of  si.xty.  Of  their  thirteen  children, 
three  are  living,  Samuel  Crotheis  being  the 
eldest. 

Mr.  t'rothers  received  bis  schooling  in  St. 
John,  and  when  a  young  lad  began  work  in  the 
store  of  Kobi'it  i'olley,  who  had  a  crockery- 
ware  business.  After  lemaining  there  for  a 
year,  he  entered  the  clothing  establishment  of 


C.  M.  (iardncr,  for  whom  he  worked  the  next 
two  years.  He  then  went  to  Hoston,  Mass., 
and  fiM'  twd  years  served  an  apprenticeship  at 
cnriage  making  with  Adams  &  Smith,  after- 
wards the  firm  of  John  T.  Smith  &  Co.  '{"be 
ne.xt  four  years  he  worked  at  his  trade  as  a 
journeyman,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time  came 
hack  t<i  his  native  cit)'.  Here  he  engaged  with 
J.  and  W.  b.  llariison,  of  India'itown,  for  two 
years  and  a  half;  and  at  the  end  of  that  time, 
when  their  establishment  was  destroyed  by 
fire,  be  started  in  business  for  himself  in  com- 
pany with  Messrs.  Trice,  .Shaw,  and  Sayer, 
the  firm  name  being  Crothers,  I'rice  &  Co. 
This  partnershi])  continued  for  three  years, 
and  at  the  end  of  that  time  Messrs.  Crothers 
and  Sayer  sold  out  to  the  other  two  ])artners. 
.Si.\  months  later  .Mr.  Crothers  bought  out  the 
soap  and  candle  business  of  Jiarker  and  Harvey, 
and  for  the  following  year  was  associated  in 
business  with  Captain  Jackson.  In  1859  he 
built  a  carriage  factory  on  the  site  where  his 
present  jdant  is  located.  Here  he  carried  on 
business  under  his  own  name  for  ten  years,  and 
at  the  end  of  that  time  received  as  associates 
James  Wilson,  an  e.\]iert  wood-worker,  and 
Charles  J.  Henderson,  an  e.\peit  iron-worker. 
These  gentlemen  h:i\e  built  up  what  is  now 
the  leading  carriage  manufactory  of  St.  John, 
and  for  the  last  forty  years  have  been  conduct- 
ing it  on  an  assured  financial  basis. 

Mr.  Crothers  was  married  in  1856  to  Mary 
Jane  Thom|)son,  a  native  of  St.  John,  and  the 
only  daughter  of  the  late  Robert  Thompson, 
who  came  to  this  country  from  the  north  of  Ire- 
land.     Mr.  and  Mrs.  Crotiiers  have  two  chil- 


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ilrcn,  iKiniel)' ;  Iila  J.  15.,  wIki  is  the  wife  nf 
II.  C.  Crcigliton;  and  ]\Ia,L;sio  Thompson. 
I\Ir.  Crtitiu'i's  is  a  trustee  of  the  ('(iiij;i"i'i;atioiial 
chuicli. 


ILL!  AM  I'I':TI:RS,  whoiosalc 
leather  dealer  of  St.  John,  was  born 
in  Hampstcad,  Queens  County,  September 
20,  i<S2i.  His  paren's  were  Samuel  Leonard 
anil  rh(ebe  (Tilley)  I'eters,  the  former  of 
whom  was  also  a  native  of   Hampstead. 

His  grandfather,  William  I'eters,  first,  who 
was  a  Loyalist  duriuf,^  the  American  Revolu- 
tion, came  from  New  \'ork  in  iyi^'>,  and  set- 
tled upon  a  large  tract  of  land  where  Upper 
Hampstead  is  now  located.  At  one  time  he 
was  the  owner  of  Little  Musquasii  Island  and 
a  large  of  tract  of  upland  near  the  hea<l  of 
Long  Island.  In  connection  with  his  large 
agricultural  interests  he  was  extensively  en- 
gaged ill  lumbering.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Provincial  Assembly  many  years,  and  was 
Magistrate  of  Queens  County.  He  married  a 
Miss  Haines,  of  New  ^'ork,  and  they  were  the 
parents  of  fifteen  children,  Samuel  Leonard, 
above  named,  being  the  first-boni.  All  lived 
to  maturity,  and  the  first  death  in  the  family 
was  that  of  John,  who  was  drowned. 

Samuel  Leonard  I'eters,  father  of  William 
I'etjrs,  was  trained  to  farm  life,  which  he  fol- 
lowed during  his  active  period,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  two  years,  when  he  was  located  on 
what  was  then  known  as  IJragg's  Corner,  now 
the  junction  of  Canterbury  and  King  Streets, 
St.  John.  Disi'osing  of  his  business  to  his 
brother,  Thomas  W.    I'eters,    he    purchased    a 


farm  near  the  old  homestead,  which  he  car- 
rie(i  on  during  the  remaining  years  of  his  life. 
He  was  Parish  Clerk  and  a  Magistrate  for 
Queens  County.  His  wife,  Pha'be,  was  a 
dniightcr  of  James  Tilley,  and  aimt  of  .Sir 
Leonard  Tilley,  Governor  of  New  Urunswick. 
-She  became  the  mothei  of  nine  children; 
namely — -Wi''  am,  James  T.,  Alexander  N., 
Mary  Ann,  I'hoibe  A.,  Charlotte,  Thomas  A., 
Samuel  Leonard,  and  Lemuel.  James  T.  and 
Lemuel  are  no  longer   liviuL;. 

William  I'eters  remained  on  the  home  farm 
until  i8j5,  when  he  went  to  Indiantown,  where 
he  was  employed  in  the  lumber  Ijusiness  dur- 
ing the  summer,  and  for  the  ne.xt  two  years 
he  carried  on  a  grocery  store.  Removing  then 
to  St.  John,  ho  purchased  the  stock  of  Mr. 
McMonagal  on  Charlotte  Street,  remaining 
there  about  the  same  length  of  time.  He  ne.xt 
bought  Mr.  IJrundage's  lease  of  the  old  tan- 
nery, where  the  Opera  House  now  stands,  and, 
later  erecting  his  present  building,  engaged 
in  the  wholesale  leather  business,  which  he 
has  conducted  ever  since. 

In  1S46  Mr.  Peters  married  Miss  Mary  Jane 
Unilerhill,  daughter  of  Henjamin  J.  Under- 
hiU,  Lsc|.,  who  w.is  a  native  of  Wickham, 
Queens  County.  They  have  had  eleven  chil- 
dren; namely,  Annie,  Ida,  l^lla,  Alice  M., 
I'rederick  A.,  George  1?.,  Mary,  Charlotte, 
and  three  who  died  in  infancy.  Annie  mar- 
ried Albert  Peters,  and  is  no  longer  living: 
Ida  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  I'..  H.  C.  Hanington,  of 
Victoria,  U.C.  ;  Ella  died  at  the  age  of  eigh- 
teen;  Alice  M.  married  William  Peters,  Jr., 
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lives  in  St.  Jolin:  ("icor^^c  H.  is  :i  resilient  of 
Worcester,  Mass.;  and  M.iry  is  the  wife  of 
C.  I",   l-'ker,  nf  F..n(lol|)li,  St.  John  Connty. 

Mr.  I'etcrs  is  a  Ma>;istrate  for  the  city  and 
county  of  .St.  John.  He  was  eoniniissioned 
Captain  in  the  (Jneens  Connty  militia,  and 
was  .\lderinan  from  Wi'llint^ton  Ward  seven 
years.  In  the  I'Vee  Haptist  denomination,  to 
wliieh  he  belongs,  he  has  iield  several  imjior- 
tant  and  responsible  ol'fiees,  beiny;  treasurer  of 
the  General  Conference,  and  treasurer  of  ib.o 
Forei.n'n  Mission  Society  for  forty  ye;Ms  or 
more.  Duriny  a  portion  of  the  time  ^Irs.  I'etcrs 
also  held  the  treasuiership  of  the  Women's 
Aid  I^'oreign  .Mission  .Society  in  connection 
with  the  denomination.  Mr.  I'etcrs  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Waterloo  .Stiect  P'ree  Baptist 
Church.  He  has  held  the  office  of  Deacon 
in  that  chinch  fv)r  about  forty-five  years,  and 
was  superintendent  of  the  Sunday-school  lor 
thirty-seven  ami  a  half  years  in  succession. 


lli;i!i;k  .\RNi)I,li,  of  the  well- 
known  fiin;  nf  \'i(inni  iv  .\i  nnld,  insiu'- 
ance  agents,  .St.  John,  was  hmn  in 
.Sussex,  N.l).,  on  (  )rtol)er  jc),  I M40,  son  of 
Horatio  Nelson  and  Marj;aret  (icor^iana  (Will- 
iams) Arnold.  His  grandfather,  the  Rev. 
Oliver  Arnold,  was  the  fust  lector  of  the  jiar- 
ish  of  Sussex:  and  his  great  ,14 raudfalher,  \a- 
tlian  Arnold,  was  a  lespeclable  phssician  ol 
Mansfield,  Conn.  The  amestiy  of  Nathan 
Aruidd  is  not  kn(!wn  with  cert.iint;,.  lie  is 
thoiii;lU  to  be  a  j;iandson  of  lohn  .\nndil,  who 
was    one    of    the    fusi    settlers     of     Manstield, 


Coini.,  and  a  proprietor  and  larj;"e  land-owner 
of  that  town.  John  .AriKdd  is  supposed  to 
have  been  tlesci..ided  in  the  fifth  or  sixth  de- 
Ljree  from  William  Arnold,  who  was  born  on 
the  twenty-fourtli  day  of  June,  15S7,  at  Chesib 
bouine,  in  the  county  of  Dorset,  l''.nj;lanil,  set- 
tled at  Providence,  K.I.,  in  1636,  and  died,-' 
Waiwiik,   R.  F.,  at  an  advanced  af^e. 

"  The  famil)'  of  Arnold,"  it  is  said,  ''  is  of 
great  antinuity,  haviny  its  origin  among  the 
ancient  piiuces  of  Wales.  According  to  a 
pedigree  recorded  in  the  College  of  .\rnis,  they 
trace  from  ^'nir,  King  of  (iwcntland,  middle 
lit  twelfth  centiu)',  who  was  |)aternally  de- 
scended from  Vnir,  second  son  of  Cadwallader, 
the  king  of  the  Dritons. 

()li\er  was  a  nanie  of  frei[uent  recurrence 
among  the  iiostcrity  of  William  Arnold,  which 
fact  seems  to  indicate  that  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  the  William 
.\rnold  abo\e  mentioned.  Di'.  Nathan  Arnold 
married  I'rudence  Denisou,  daughteicif  Nathan 
Di'nison,  of  Wiinlhani,  Conn.,  and  the\-  were 
the  parents  of  nine  ihildien.  (  )f  these  at 
lea.st  two  brothers,  .\nios  and  Ro>well,  came  to 
New  linniswiik  with  Olixer. 

C)l  i\er  .\rnohl  giaduated  at  \'ale  College, 
New  Ha\en,  Conn.,  in  1  77'''.  He  came  to  St. 
John  with  other  l.ii\alists  in  17S.1,  and  tlrst  ap- 
pears as  secretars'  to  the  directois  of  the  town 
at  the  entranci'  of  the  .St.  Jnhn  River.  (  )n  the 
ninth  of  Novendier,  17.^6,  he  mariied  ('har- 
lotte,  daughter  of  .Sleplien  and  1-li/abeth  Wig- 
gins, of  Newburgh,  N.  \'.  He  subsei|iiently 
removed  to  Sussex,  where  lie  beiaine  tlu'  first 
pastor  of  the  Church  of    luigland,  and  inission- 


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ar}'  ti)  tlie  Iiulians.  lie  (lc|)aitc(l  this  life  on 
y\piil  Q,  iS^4,  ill  the  scventy-iiiiuh  year  of  Iiis 
aj;e  and  the  luity-tiiird  yeai'  of  his  niiiiisti)-. 
llis  wife  (lied  on  Xoveniher  2],  1.S31,  nv;ci.\ 
sixty-five  years.  'I'liey  were  tJie  parents  of 
seven  children. 

Of  tliese,  Horatio  Nelson,  tiie  sixtii  eliiici 
and  tile  tliird  son,  who  sneeeeded  his  father  as 
rector  of  Sussex  ])arish,  was  born  in  Sussex  on 
December  23,  1799.  lie  entered  Kini;s  Col- 
lege, Windsor,  N.S. ,  in  18(5,  and  after  his 
graduation  was  for  a  time  in  charge  of  the 
{^rannnar  scliool  at  h'redeiicton.  In  iSj^  lie 
was  appointed  S.  1'.  (i.  missionary  at  (iran- 
ville,  N.  S.  ;  and,  four  years  later,  he  took  his 
master's  de};ree  at  Kinj;'s  College,  Windsor, 
N.S.  All.  Arnold's  wife,  Catherine,  to  whom 
he  was  married  on  October  JO,  1S23,  was  the 
second  daughter  of  the  Rev.  ])r.  Cochran,  vice- 
president  of  King's  C(dlege.  She  died  soon 
after  and  he  was  married  on  January  29,  1826, 
to  Georgiana,  fourth  daughter  of  the  late 
Thonias  Williams,  commissary  and  store-keeper 
at  Annapolis  Royal.  In  December,  1828,  he 
removed  to  Sussex  as  assistant  to  his  father; 
and,  on  the  death  of  the  latter,  in  1834,  he  be- 
came missionary  there  under  tlieS.  I'.Ci.  lie 
dieil  on  Decendier  8,  1848,  leaving  a  family  of 
fwc  children,  as  follows:  h'enwick  Williams, 
who  died  shortly  after  beginning  the  practice 
of  medicine  in  St.  John;  Horatio  Nelson,  the 
third  child,  whodicd  in  Australia;  < ).  Roswell 
Arnold,  l'"si|.,  now  of  Sussex;  Mis.  Charlotte 
h'rith,  of  Cal.^arv  ;  and  R.  lleber  Aimdd,  of 
St.  John. 

K.  Ileber  Arnold  when  eight  )ears  old  came 


to  St.  John,  where  he  received  his  early  edu- 
cation. His  first  employment  was  in  the  ofTice 
of  the  Registrar  of  Shifiping,  and  for  the 
twelve  succeeding  years  he  held  a  clerical 
position  in  the  Hank  of  New  Hrunswick.  At 
the  end  of  that  time  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  William  Iv  Vroom,  and  went  with  that 
gentleman  to  Montevideo,  South  .\merica, 
where  he  remained  for  three  years.  Both  jiart- 
ners  then  returned  to  St.  John,  and  have  since 
been  engaged  in  general  insurance  and  shi|) 
brokerage   insurance  business. 

Mr.  Armdd  was  married  in  1S74  to  Mar- 
garet .Ann  Robertson,  daughter  of  the  late 
Duncan  R.)bertson,  barrister  of  St.  John.  Of 
the  three  children  born  of  this  union,  one,  a 
.son,  survi'cs— Duncan  Robertsoi!  Arnold,  a 
graduate  of  the  Cniversity  of  New  Hrunswick. 
Mr.  Arnold  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order. 
He  and  his  family  are  members  of  the  Church 
of  l'-n"land. 


§OSi:i'H  M.  RUDDOCK,  builder  of 
steamboats  and  bridges  and  operator 
of  a  foundry,  one  of  the  leading  busi- 
ness men  of  Chatham,  \  M. ,  was  born  in  St. 
John  in  1842.  a  son  of  Andrew  and  I'hillis 
(Mills)  Ruddock.  His  father  was  a  native  of 
Kinsale,  Ireland,  born  about  the  first  of  the 
present  century, 

Mr.  Ruddock  grew  up  in  his  native  city  and 
attended  school  there.  He  was  then  set  to 
an  ai)prenticeship  with  Harrison  Allen  to 
learn  mechanical  engineering,  being  the  first 
of  his  family  for  four  generations  who  had  not 


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bci'ii  cn^ai^ed  in  sliip-buikling^.  y\ftcr  serving; 
six  years  as  an  apprenticL',  lie  went  to  Hoston, 
where  lie  remained  eij^lit  months.  At  the  end 
of  that  time  he  returned  to  St.  John,  and  at 
the  opening  of  the  iunopean  and  North  Ainer- 
iean  i^ailroad  e'ltered  the  employ  of  that 
ci)m|)aiiy  as  mechanic  in  their  machine  shop 
at  Shediac,  N.  H.  After  working  there  for 
two  years  he  went  to  Nova  Scotia  and  erected 
the  crushing  mills  for  the  New  Hruuswiek  and 
Nova  Scotia  (iold  Mining  Company.  He 
stayed  there  more  than  a  year,  and  then,  in 
1862,  sailed  from  Halifa.x  as  engineer  of  a 
Confederate  steamer.  .At  the  close  of  that 
summer  his  vessel  was  put  out  of  commission, 
and  Mr.  Ruddock  returned  to  Halifax. 
Shortly  after  he  left  for  New  York,  where  he 
entered  the  employ  of  the  United  States  gov- 
ernment in  the  building  de|)artment  of  the  navy. 
lie  worked  at  the  .South  I?rooklyn  Machine 
Works,  and  assisted  in  building  the  "Nyaek," 
the  ".Shawniut,"  the  "Metacomet,"  and  the 
"Mendota,"  men-of-war.  When  his  services 
were  no  longer  recpiired  there,  Mr.  Ruvidock 
came  to  Chatham  and  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture of  lumber.  This  he  continued  for  live 
years,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time  he  started 
a  machine  business.  Subsequently,  in  i.SiSr, 
he  purchased  the  Miraiiiichi  I'ouiuhy,  which 
was  established  by  I'raser  &  Mason,  and 
later  operated  by  the  Cunartls,  now  known  as 
the  Cunard  Steamslii|>  Company.  He  has 
since  done  an  cxteniiive  foundry  business, 
employing  a  regular  force  of  eighteen  men 
and  in  busy  times  forty-hve. 

In  May,    1.S65,  Mr    Ruddock  was  united   in 


marriage  with  Miss  Maigaret  Jane  Davidson, 
daughter  of  Horatio  Nelson  Davidson,  of 
River  I'hilip,  Cumberland  Countv,  N.S. 
Three  sons  have  blessed  this  union,  all  of 
whom  are  at  jiresent  engaged  in  business  with 
their  father.  Charles  Davidson,  the  eldest, 
who  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  is  manager  of  the 
foundry.  Arthur  ICdward,  who  was  born  in 
Chatham,  N.  H. ,  attends  to  the  pattern  depart- 
ment: and  l!dwiii  Nelson  is  book-keeper  for 
the  concern. 

Charles  D.  Ruddock  married  .\ddie  Turner, 
a  daughter  of  Colin  Turner,  of  this  place, 
;  nd  has  a  family  of  thri'e  children,  by  name  — 
Oloff,  Douglas,  and  Ada.  Arthur  !•;.  Ruddock 
married  Isabel  l'"orbes,  a  daughter  of  Captain 
Hugh  I'orbes,  of  Chatham,  ami  has  one  son, 
.Arthur  I-'orbes  Ruddock. 

Mr.  Ruddock  is  a  I'ast  Master  of  Miranii- 
ehi  Lodge,  I"".  A.  M.  ;  Past  Principal  of  the 
Royal  Arch  Chapter  of  Mascms;  ami  a  charter 
member  of  the  Royal  Arcanum.  Politically, 
he  is  an  Iiidepeinlent. 


L-A.\TRICK  :\I()R(;.\N.  the  oldest-es- 
tablished iliy-goods  nier;:hant  in  the 
North  I'.iui,  St.  John,  was  born  in 
County  .Armagh,  Ireland,  about  the  year  i.Sii. 
When  twelve  years  of  age  he  went  to  I'-nglaud, 
where  he  served  an  appreiiticesliip  to  the  linen 
weavers'  trade.  Later  he  was  engageil  in  mer- 
cantile business  in  Durham,  Pjigland.  In 
1855  he  came  to  New  Hrunswiek,  and,  settling 
ill  .St.  John,  established  his  ]iresenl  business 
ill   the   North   Juul,    then    known   as    Poitland. 


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l"(ir  liirt)'  li\i'  years  lu'  lias  been  the  leadinj; 
dry-goods  merchant  in  that  jiart  of  the  eity,  his 
large  trade  having  lieen  liuilt  u|i  solely  througli 
his  own  enterprise  and  honest  business 
methods,  lie  was  aeciimpanicil  to  Ameriea  by 
his  sisters-in-law,  Mllen  and  Margaret  Robin- 
son, and  his  bidiher-in  lau-,  John  Koiiinson. 
Margaret  Robinson  became  the  wile  of  James 
1^.  1  logan,  of  St.  John. 

Mr.  Morgan  married,  at  Wigton,  Ijigland, 
Mary  Ann  Robinson,  a  native  of  Cumberland. 
They  had  live  children,  three  of  whom  — 
lillcii,  James,  and  Thonias  —  were  born  in 
iMigland,  and  two,  I'Llizabeth  and  Harriet,  in 
St.  John.  I'.llen  is  the  wife  of  l''rank  T'oster, 
of  St.  John,  and  Harriet  is  tlie  wife  of  Joseph 
Harrington.  Thomas  is  in  the  employ  of 
^Manchester,  Robertson  &  Allison,  of  St.  John. 
James,  who  is  associated  with  his  father  in  the 
dry-goods  business,  married,  in  18.S7,  JNIiss 
h'annie  ('.  Hayes,  a  dannhter  of  the  late  ]'a\- 
ward  Ihues,  of  Si.  John.  She  died  [■"ebruary 
ly,  iHy^,  leaving  tlirce  liiildren  —  L'uthbert, 
Nannie,  and  Mdward.  Mr.  James  Morgan  is  a 
member  of  the  Catholic  Mutual  Hencvolent 
Association. 

Mr.  Patrick  Morgan  is  an  old  freeman  of  the 
city.  He  is  a  mendier  of  the  Church  of  Rome, 
and  attends  St.  I'eter's  Church. 


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.WII)  McROBI'.RTS,  a  leading  citi- 
zen  of    .St.    .\ndrews   and   owner   of 


one  of  the  finest  farms  on  the  St. 
Croix  River,  was  born  in  .St.  Andrews  on  the 
fourth    (lav    of     I'V'bruarv,     iSji;,    his    parents 


being  (leorge  and  .Sarah  (Ho\(l)  .McRoberts, 
both  natixes  of  the  noith  of  Ireland.  Mr.  Mc- 
Roberts's  paternal  grandfather  was  a  linen 
weaver.  He  emigrated  with  his  family  from 
the  north  of  Ireland  to  I'ittsburg,  I'a.  Ceorge 
McRoberts,  who  was  born  in  Helfast,  came 
with  his  wife  to  .St.  .\ndrews,  and  here  fol- 
lowed his  trade  of  cariienter  anil  ship-builder 
until  bis  death  in  i.Sfij.  The  Ikhisc  that  he 
built  has  since  been  rejilaced  by  the  jdeas- 
ant  and  homelike  dwelling  in  which  his 
son  David  now  resides.  His  five  children 
were:  I)a\id,  (ieorge,  Nellie,  Margaret,  and 
Jane. 

David  McRoberts  was  educated  in  the  dis- 
trict school  of  his  native  town,  and  then  served 
an  apprenticeship  at  the  carpenter's  trade  with 
Mr.  John  Ho\(l,  of  .St.  Ceoige.  He  has 
Worked  at  car])entering  ever  since,  and  from 
1S50  to  1S54  was  interested  in  ship  building 
at  Kohbinston,  Me.  He  is  a  mend)er  of  the 
I'resb_\lerian  church  and  p(]l  it  icall)'  a  strong 
Conservative. 

Mr.  McRoberts  married  I.\(lia  .\.  I'ine, 
whose  great-grandfathers  on  both  sides  (jf  her 
house  fought  in  the  .\merican  wai  for  inde- 
pendence, and  subsecpiently  settled  in  .^t. 
.Stephens.  Of  this  union  eight  children  have 
been  born,  as  follows:  l-'rcderick,  l'!dwin  Au- 
gust, Warren  Herbert,  Martin  ]''ranklin, 
Leslie,  Lemuel  Roberts,  .Mhertus  William, 
anil  Cb;ules.  The  first  named  of  these  served 
an  apprenticeship,  and  is  now  a  machinist  and 
engineer  in  I'hiladelphi:i,  I'a.  He  was  edu- 
cate I  in  the  St.  Andrews  schools.  .Mi-.  Mc- 
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Xinn'  lU^UNSWICK  XASI'., 
IJ.D.S.,  was  boil)  in  Iiiiliantown, 
N.l?. ,  October  <),  iS^xj,  and  is  tlic 
David  11.  and  llenrietla  A.  (iiarniiill) 
lie  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Henry 
Nase,  a  native  of  Ciermany,  who  settled  in 
Dutehess  County,  New  \'orl<,  in  172S;  and  bis 
};reat-j;reati,'randfather  was  Colonel  llenry 
Nase,  a  l.ovalist  wim  came  to  New  ]5iunswicl< 
immediatel)-  after  the  American  Revohition. 
His  iiaternal  j;randiiarents  were  I'hilip  and 
I':iizal)eth  IMary  (llamm)  Nase,  the  latter  a 
danghter  of  David  llamm,  of  W'estlield,  N.  H. 
[l-"or  farther  acconnt  of  ancestors  see  sketch  of 
Philii)  Nase  on  anotlier  page  of  the  Ri.\  ii.w.  ] 

Da\id  II.  Nase,  son  of  I'hilip  and  I'.jizabeth 
]\r.  (llamm)  Nase,  was  born  in  Indiantown, 
I'ebruary  ^,  1S4S.  He  was  edncated  in  the 
St.  John  (irammar  School.  ;\t  the  a.!;e  of  si.\- 
teen  he  began  the  activities  of  life  as  a  clerk 
in  a  grocery  store,  and  later  was  in  business 
with  his  father.  For  five  years  he  conducted 
a  line  of  horse  cars,  which  he  leased  from  the 
People's  Stieet  Railroad  Company,  but  aban- 
doned that  business  to  become  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  r.  Nase  &  Son,  and  was  later  associated 
with  bis  brother,  Leonard  '1'.  Nase.  He  with- 
drew from  the  tirm  in  i.SyS,  and  established 
himself  in  general  mercantile  business  on 
Main  Street,  where  be  is  carrying  on  a  ])rofit- 
able  enterjirise.  lie  was  a  member  of  the 
Common  Council  three  years,  and  is  now  serv- 


ing on  the  School  Hoard.  In  politics  he  sup- 
[lorts  the  Liberal  jiarty.      His  wife,  Henrietta, 

whom  he  married  Deci'mber  2,  I1S6.S,  is  a 
daughter  of  Alexander  liarnhill,  of  I'leasant 
Point,  Lancaster,  N.H. ,  and  formerly  of  Nova 
Scotia.  Mr.  and  ;\Irs.  Nase  have  two  children 
living,  namely:  Harr\'  Prunswick,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch;  and  Minnie  (iibson,  wife  of 
M.    H.    J.    I'deming,    of   the    I'bfenix    l''onndr\'. 

Harry  Ihunswick  Nase  began  bis  e(hication 
in  the  pnblic  schools  of  St.  John,  and  coii- 
pleted  his  studies  at  W'olfville.  He  accpiired 
his  tiist  knowledge  of  dentistr)-  with  Dr.  C.  F. 
Godsoe,  and  after  i)raetising  bis  pidfession  as 
a  travelling  dentist  for  three  years  he  entered 
the  L^niversity  of  Michigan,  where  he  remained 
two  years.  Then  he  entered  the  I'hilailelphia 
Dental  College,  from  which  he  giaduated  in 
the  class  of  1892-93.  He  practised  in  the 
I'nited  .States  two  years,  in  Nova  Scotia  one 
\eai',  and  in  1890  opened  his  present  office  in 
.St.  John,  where  he  has  acquired  a  lucrative 
business. 

On  April  25,  1S9S,  Dr.  Nase  was  joined  in 
marriage  with  Miss  Minnie  Hoo])er  Peverly,  of 
St.  John,  daughter  of  l''ulton  Heverlv.  'IT.ey 
have  one  child,  (ieorge  ]3e\'erl)'  Nase,  born 
March  10,  i  S99.  'I'he  Doctor  is  a  member  of 
the  (lairetsoiiian  .Society  of  Philadelphia. 


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\r^J_  ager  of  tlie  New  Hrunswick  Tele- 
phone Company,  has  been  a  resident  of 
Moncton,  N.H. ,  for  the  past  thirty  years,  and 
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witli  many  of  its  iiiilustiial  onti.'rpii.si.'s.  Umn 
Scptemlu-r  7,  184^,  in  St.  John,  N.U.,  lu-  is 
a  son  (if  the  late  Cicorno  1'.  i'l'tcrs,  M.l).,  and 
a  j;nuulsiin  of  the  Into  Attoincy  (icncral 
Charles  I.   rotcrs. 

Geori,^c  I'.  I'ctcrs  took  diplomas  at  iCdin- 
hnrL;h  and  (ilas,i;]ow,  Scotland,  and  settled  as 
a  practitioner  in  St.  John,  X.  U.  lie  there 
liuilt  up  a  j;(>()d  general  practice,  and  for  a 
number  of  years  was  in  chari;e  of  the  lunatic 
asylum  there.  Sub.secpiently  retiring  to  his 
farm,  which  was  in  tiie  suhurhs  of  St.  John, 
on  the  Manawaj^onish  Road,  he  was  there  en- 
;4ai;e(l  to  some  extent  in  a.i;ricultural  pursuits 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  when  he  was 
but  fifty-five  years  old.  Ills  wile,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Margaret  Clo])|)er,  died  very 
youui;-,  leavini^  hut  one  child,  George  C. 
They  were  both  members  of  the  Church  of 
iMigland. 

George  C.  I'eters  was  educated  at  the  C(d- 
le^'iate  School  in  I'redei  icton,  X.  15.,  and  after 
leaving  school  was  for  several  years  one  of  the 
engineering  staff  of  the  Intercolonial  I'lailway 
under  the  late  II.  G.  C.  Kctchum,  C.  li.  In 
iHfn)  he  located  in  Moncton,  where  he  was  en- 
gaged in  business  of  various  kinds  until  1X84, 
when  he  accepted  his  present  iiosition  as  man- 
ager of  the  telephone  system  at  Moncton. 
Fraternally,  Mr.  I'eters  is  identified  with  the 
Masonic  oi'der,  being  a  member  of  Keith 
Lodge,  1".  &  A.  M.,  of  Moncton,  and  of  liots- 
ford  Chapter,   K.  .\.  M. 

On  Octobei-  1,  ti<('~,  Mr.  I'eters  married 
I'diza,  daughter  of  the  late  Hon.  lUiss  Hots- 
ford,    I.C.C.,    of    Monct(ui.        Thev    have    ten 


children,  namely:  Louisa  J.  (wife  of  John  H. 
Magee,  of  the  Intercolonial  Railway  staff  of 
Mcnctoii,  who  has  three  children  —  Marjorie, 
Maurice,  and  Bessie);  Bliss  Bostford,  In- 
spector of  the  .South-eastern  I'reight  Associa- 
tion, I'rovidence,  R.I.;  Florence  L. ;  Mar- 
gueritte  C.  ;  Claude  \V.,  of  the  Bank  of 
Montreal,  Xew  V;)rk;  Brookes  C,  organist; 
.Agnes;  h'annyC;  Mary  1).  ;  and  \'..   Byron  \V. 


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i;()k(;F  WALT,  the  well  known  ship- 
V[^J_  chandler  of  Chatham,  N'nrlluunber- 
lar.d  County,  N.  H. ,  was  born  in  Xewcastle, 
that  county,  in  1.S52,  his  parents  being  I'atrick 
and  Barbara  (Mitchell)  Watt.  His  paternal 
grandfather,  James  Watt,  was  a  native  of  Scot- 
land, lie  came  to  Ameiica  about  iN::o,  set- 
tled in  the  north-west,  and  subsequently  fol- 
lowed farming.  1  lis  gramlmother,  Jane  Watt, 
lived  to  reach  the  ad\anced  age  of  ninety-three. 
I'atrick  Watt,  who  was  bcjrn  in  Abeideeii, 
.Scotland,  was  apprenticed  to  learn  ihe  drv- 
goods  business  in  that  city,  but  the  family 
came  across  the  water  befoie  his  apprentice- 
ship had  cNpiied,  ami  he  came  with  them. 
I  le  entered  the  emplo)-  of  llendersen  vK:  .\llen 
in  Xewcastle  as  clerk,  and,  having  gained  a 
good  idea  of  the  business,  for  which  he  hail  an 
inherent  capacity,  he  started  for  himself,  and 
attained  substantial  success.  lie  married,  in 
1S47,  Barbara  Mitchell,  a  sister  of  the  lion. 
I'eter  Mitchell,  well-known  as  the  "  L'alher  of 
Confederation."  Of  the  children  of  this 
union  the  following-named  three  grew  to  ma- 
tuiity:  .\gnes  J.,   now   deceased,  who   maiiied 


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VVilliston,  of  Nowciistlc;  Williiim,  wlio  suc- 
ceeded  his  lallicr  in  hiisiiR'ss;  ;m(l  GeorfJic. 
Patrick  Watt  was  Inr  many  years  a  tiusti'o  (if 
St.  James  C'luiiili  in  Ni-wcastle.  His  (ieatli 
iii'iiniL'd  in  iiSrif).  William  Watt  died  in 
W'imiipci;  in  1.^94. 

George  Watt  recciycd  his  ediuation  at  tlie 
(irammar  SiJuiol  in  Newcastle  (haying  for  liis 
teacher  Jdhn  Hardie)  and  at  Hark  ins  Semi- 
nary. After  leayini;  sclioiil  he  entered  into  a 
Ijartnersiiiji  witli  his  l)rother  in  Newcastle.  In 
iSHothe  store  was  Ijurned,  and  just  alter  tiiat 
iMr.  Watt  started  the  ship-ciiandlery  wliieh  he 
luis  since  carried  on.  He  inherits  Ironi  his 
father  a  turn  for  trade  and  mercantile  life,  and 
li.is  always  Ijcen  successful  in  his  husiness 
undertakini;s.  Mr.  Watt  was  County  ('oiui- 
cillor  for  two  terms,  and  .\lderman  of  Chatham 
upon  the  orj;anization  of  the  city.  He  is 
(irand  Master  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen,  and  secretary  of  the  Ro)al  Ar- 
canum. 

In  1S79  Mr.  Watt  was  united  in  inarriaye 
with  .Miss  I'lli/.abeth  Ci.  Habherly,  a  daughter 
of  Samuel  Habberly,  who  came  from  I'Jigland 
to  New  York,  and  in  i,S'6o  remoyed  to 
Chatham.  Of  this  union  one  cliild  has  been 
born,  ]'" ranees  Agnes.  Mr.  Watt  is  Italian 
Consul  for  this  iiort. 


rrsOl  ON.    ANDRIAV    Gl'.ORGh:    HLAHi, 
M.I'.,  and   Minister  of   Railways  and 
Canals    for    Canada,    was    born    at 
Fredericton,  N.  H.,  on  the  7th  of  .March,  1844, 


being  a  son  of  .Andrew  and  Mary  Ann  (.Segee) 
Hlair  and  of  .Scotch  descent.  I  Fe  was  edu- 
cated at  the  Cotlegiat'j  .School  in  I'redericton. 
Subse<|uently  he  applied  himself  to  the  study 
of  law,  and,  being  called  to  the  bar  in  .April, 
icSrij,  has  since  most  successfully  practised 
his  profession.  In  1878  he  entered  the  polit- 
ical arena,  and  at  the  general  election  of  that 
year  was  returneil  to  represent  \'ork  Comity 
in  the  House  of  .Assembly  of  New  Mrunswick. 
A  petition  having  been  filed  against  his  re- 
turn, how(!yer,  he  resigned  his  seat,  and  on 
the  issue  of  a  new  writ  was  re-elected  on  De- 
cember 14  of  the  same  year.  .\t  the  first  ses- 
sion of  the  new  House  in  l'"ebniary,  1H79,  he 
was  chosen  leader  of  the  oiiposition,  tlun  con- 
sisting of  only  si.x  members  besides  himself 
in  a  House  of  forty-one.  In  the  last  session 
of  that  House,  held  in  1S82,  the  opposition, 
under  his  leadershi|),  had  increased  to  seven- 
teen. At  the  general  election  of  that  year, 
1882,  he  was  re-elected  for  his  old  constitu- 
ency: and  in  March,  1885,  he  defeated  the 
Ilannington  government,  and  was  called  upon 
to  forTii  a  new  ministry,  which  he  succeeded 
in  acconi|)lishing  in  one  day.  Un  accepting 
the  office  of  Attorney  General,  he  again  ap- 
jiealed  to  his  constituents  on  M;irch  24,  and 
was  elected.  .At  the  general  election  held 
in  1887  he  was  once  more  elected  to  the 
Legislature,  and  continued  in  office  as  Premier 
and  Attorney  General  until  1896,  when  he  ac- 
cepted his  present  office  under  Mr.  (now  .Sir) 
Wilfrid  Laurier,  who  had  been  selected  to 
form  a  government,  and  was  returned  as  the 
member    for   (Jueens  and    .Sunbury  Counties, 


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New  Uriinswick,  to  the  Cnnadian  Parliament. 
'I'lic  linn.  Mr.  Ulair  is  a  I.ilierai  in  pDljtics, 
anil  in  rclii;iiin  an  atlhcri-nt  i>l  liu'  i'rcshyttTJrin 
church. 

lie  was  niarric<I  ( )c'tiil)er  ,?i,  1867,  to  Anriu 
1;.,  oiliest  (lau;;liter  <il  (iCDrfje  'liionipson,  late 
of  tlie  educ.-itional  departinent  at  {'"rederictDH. 
Hy  this  inaniaLCc  tlu're  iiivo  hcen  ten  children 
—  seven  daii;;hters  and  three  sons  -ei};ht  dl 
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iiokcr;  .s\i,\i;st1':k  hi.  houi'Sr. 

\f^J_  —  Anion;;  the  inaii\  eneryelie  and 
successful  merchants  wlio  hy  their  ahility  and 
intej^rity  were  instnnnental  in  developing;  the 
mercant  ije  and  siiippin^  intt'iests  of  St.  John 
the  suhjeil  of  tills  slxelcli  is  deservedly  en- 
titled to  a  [losilion  in  llie  foremost  rank.  The 
liitc  Cjeorye  .Sylvester  de  P'orest  was  horn  in 
Kings  County,  New  Hrnnswick,  Octoher  S, 
iSjf).  lie  was  a  son  (jf  .Samuel  Judsnn  de 
I'"oiest,  one  of  the  pioneer  breweis  of  this 
jirovince.  'I'lie  liist  paternal  ancestor  of  wlioiii 
there  is  any  authentic  record  was  Jesse  de 
l''orest,  whose  birth  took  ]il.ue  in  1575  at 
Avesiieis.  Province  of  llainaiil,  whieh  was 
tlirii  a  pail  of  tile  .Spanisli  Netlieilaiids,  hut 
was  later  ceded  to  h' ranee,  to  which  it  liad 
previously  belonged.  In  !5(iS  Jesse  de  h'orest 
went  to  Sedan,  and  in  lOoi  lie  married  Marie 
du  Cloux,  a  Protestant.  lie  was  prohalil) 
one  of  the  fonndeis  of  New  .\iiisteiilani.  as 
New  \'ork  Citv  was  orit^iiially  named  l)\  the 
Dutch.  Samuel  de  h'oiest,  Mr.  (Ieor:;e  S.  de 
Forest's  grandfather,  was  a  Loyalist,  and  came 


to  New  Hrunswick  in  17HV  .Samuel  Jiulson 
lie  I'oiest,  son  of  .Samuel,  was  one  of  the  early 
hotel  keepers  ol  .St.  Julili.  lie  eslaldislied 
upiiii  a  Mii.dl  SI. lie  a  distillery,  and  I. itrr  he- 
came  a  mcmhcr  of  the  firm  of  Kile)  iS:  De  i'oi 
est,  who  were  extensive  hrewers  in  their  day. 

fommencing  his  business  life  as  a  clerk  in 
his  tatlu'i's  hiewery,  (ieoi;;e  .SyKester  de 
P'oiest  latei  entered  the  employ  of  Mes.srs. 
J.  &  (i.  .Salter,  wholesale  yroceis  on  South 
Wharf,  with  whom  he  remained  until  their 
retiieiiieiil  in  i.S.j.S.  In  iiaitncisliip  witli  his 
hrother-inlaw,  D.  C.  Perkins,  he  emliaikeil  in 
the  same  line  of  trade,  and  after  the  retirement 
of  his  associate  he  continued  'In'  business  alone 
for  the  rest  of  his  life.  Like  a  '-t  I'f  the  suc- 
cessful merchaiits  of  ills  (la\-.  was  ipiite 
lar;;ely  interested  in  sliijipin;;  lor  many 
ye;irs  was  one  of  the  principal  I.ilIois  in  the 
foreign  traile  of  .St.  John.  Although  a  heavy 
loser  in  the  fire  of  1S77,  he  was  enabled  to 
continue  business  without  seeking  a  compro- 
mise with  his  creditors,  lie  prefeiiing  instead 
to  meet  his  obligations  in  full.  Speaking  of 
his  earnest  desire  to  preserve  his  good  name,  it 
is  related  by  a  close  personal  friend  that,  fear- 
ing Ids  inabilit)'  to  meet  llie  payments  of  a 
large  order  pl.iced  in  London  just  jirevious  to 
the  above  mentioned  lonflagration,  he  cmniter- 
manded  it,  but  the  London  firm,  instead  of  eom- 
plving  with  his  rec|iiest,  doubled  the  ordci-  and 
shipped  it  on  tlieii'  own  responsibility.  He 
was  for  some  veais  an  otluer  of  Pingiiie  No.  5 
of  the  fire  department.  He  was  fond  of  atli- 
'etic  sports  and  out-of-door  amusements,  espe- 
ciall)   lishing;  and  one  of   his   many  conimend- 


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able  diaracloristics  was  his  closi.'  intimacy 
witli  his  sdiis,  whom,  when  they  hecanie  yming 
men,  he  regarded  and  treated  as  h)\  ing  com- 
panions instead  of  exercising  tliat  parental 
authority  so  common  to  most  fathers.  A  lib- 
eral-minded, conscientious  Christian  gentle- 
man, he  contributed  generously  to  all  worthy 
objects  of  charity,  and  he  was  held  in  the 
highest  esteem  by  all  who  knew  him.  lie  was 
an  active  member  of  St.  John's  Ciuirch. 
(ieorge  Sylvester  de  l'"orest  died  April  iS, 
1893.  He  married  Septendier  10,  i-Sjo, 
Anna  M.  Hall,  daughter  of  James  Hall,  of 
Wilmot,  N.  S. ,  and  a  sister  <if  S.  S.  aiul  the 
late  1).  H.  Hall,  of  St.  John.  She  died  on 
I'ebruary  16,  1S97.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  iJe  b'orest 
are  survived  bv  theii' eight  children,  namelv: 
Stephen  S.,  of  St.  John;  Louis  I'].,  who  is  in 
the  grocery  business  at  McAdam  Junction; 
Clarence  W.  and  Harrv  W  . ,  w  lio  succeeded  to 
their  father';;  ousiness;  Arthur  1'".,  a  travelling 
salesman;  l-'iank  H.,  formerlv  .  ith  W.  H. 
Thorne  &  Co.,  St.  John,  who  died  July  J7, 
1S91);  ,\nnie  ,M.,  wife  of  CIkuIcs  I'atteison, 
of   St.  John;  ■  nd   j-ldilb   1..  de   iMirest. 

.Stephen  .Sneden  de  b'oiest.  born  July  27, 
1855,  was  educate<l  in  tlie  |iublic  schools  of 
St.  John.  At  the  age  of  foiuteen  he  entered 
the  eriiploy  <ii  J.  am'  W.  !•".  Hairisoii,  with 
whom  he  remained  five  _\ears,  at  the  (.•nd  of 
which  tinu'  he  took  a  position  in  bis  father's 
store,  where  he  continued  until  |S,S'5.  After 
that  the  fiini  of  De  b'orest  i^  Harrison,  he 
having  formed  a  copartnership  with  W.  !•'. 
Harrison,  canied  on  the  wholesale  grocer)' 
trade    for    three    vears,    when    it    \wu{   out   of 


business,  and  Mr.  De  l-'orcst  took  the  local 
agencv  for  a  I  ondon  l-'ire  Insurance  (!om- 
pany,  which  he  managed  a  short  time.  He 
then  entered  the  employ  of  the  wholesale 
gidcery  firm  of  Hall  &  I''airweather,  and  is 
now  manager  of  the  Hall  &  l'"airvveather  Com- 
pany, Limited,  which  was  organized  Jinuary 
20,   1897. 

On  June  5,  1878,  IMr.  Slejihen  S.  de  I'orest 
was  united  in  niairiage  with  Miss  Mary  I'lnuua 
Small,  a  native  of  St.  John,  daughter  of  the 
late  Otis  Small,  who  was  at  one  time  exten- 
sively engaged  in  the  steamboat  business  both 
on  the  St.  John  River  and  the  Hay  of  I'undy. 
Thev  have  had  fiur  children  ;  namely,  l'"rancis 
Small,  Mary  luiima,  George  Sylvestei',  and 
William  Harrison,  who  dii-d  in  infancy. 

Mr.  Stephen  S.  de  b'orest  belongs  to  the  St. 
Andievvs  Curling  Club,  and  at  present  holds 
the  chaniiiionshii),  having  made  the  highest 
score  ever  recorded  mi  .St.  John.  He  also  be- 
longs to  the  St.  (ieorge  .Societv.  He  is  active 
in  religions  affairs  and  a  nu'mber  of  St.  James 
Churih,  which  he  has  re|)H.'senti.d  in  the  I'ro- 
V  incial  Sv  nod. 

"P)TAI<1-:V  Wl'NMAX  hi;  FORKS!', 
sixth  s<in  <if  the  latt'  (ieorge  S.  de 
I'orest,  was  born  in  St.  John,  N.H., 
May  29,  186;,.  He  was  reared  in  his  native 
city,  where  also  he  was  educated,  iiis  later 
studies  heuig  pursued  at  the  scboid  of  Dr. 
I'^.  Stone  Wiggins.  Histiist  business  exin'ri- 
ence  was  obtained  as  clerk  with  llall  &  i''air- 
weather,  with  whom  he  remained  foi-  ten 
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ill  business  with  his  iMthtT,  succceilin;;'  liini  at 
iiis  deatii,  and  stihsc'|ucntl\-,  until  the  present 
time,  eariyinj;'  it  on  in  company  witli  his 
hriitlier,  (."hirencc  W. 

He  was  maiiiei!  in  April,  iScjj,  to  Miss 
Annie  I'..  \\'rij;ht,  tlauj;liter  of  Captain  (ieorj;e 
Wri,i;ht,  of  Albert  Covuity.  They  have  two 
ehiUhen  —  (ieorge  \\'rij;ht  and  John  Wright. 
Mr.  de  l'"orest  is  a  memiier  of  St.  John's 
Church,   of  whiih  he   is  also  a   wank'n. 


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rOllX  I'd. ( )()!),  an  efficient  and  enter- 
piisiiii.;'  contractor  and  builder,  of  .St. 
John,  was  horn  in  that  city  in  11X55, 
son  of  Michael  and  Winifred  (Ryan)  l""]ood. 
His  father,  who  was  a  native  of  Kildare,  lie- 
land,  came  to  New  l?ninswick  at  the  aj;e  of 
nineteen  years. 

A  mason  by  trade,  Michael  Mood  was  em- 
ployed in  the  construction  of  the  K.  ik  N.  .A. 
Kailr<Kul  (now  tlie  I.  C.  R.).  .Subse(|ueiitly, 
he  engaged  in  business  for  himself  in  .St.  John 
as  a  contractor  and  biiild'/r,  and  erected  many 
tine  residences  and  public  buildings,  an'ong 
them  being  the  Victoria  .School  (in  i.S/C)),  the 
residence  of  the  late  Governor  Hoyd,  the  resi- 
dence of  .S.  JoiU's,  the  lesideiici'  of  W.  11. 
Tiiiirne,  the  .Sands  IShick  on  riince  Williaivi 
.Street,  and  the  London  House  on  Market 
.Square.  He  retired  in  icSSS,  having  been  en- 
gaged in  business  f(M'  a  period  of  forty  years. 
His  wife,  Winifred,  whom  he  married  in 
1.S40,  was  a  iiali\e  of  Kings  Cminty,  New 
Mrunswick,  and  a  daughter  of  Charles  R\an, 
who  came  to  this  country  from    Ireland.      'I'liev 


were  the  parents  of  .seven  children,  namely: 
Mary,  the  wife  of  Cornelius  (i.dlag'ier,  of  St. 
John;  Margaret,  the  widow  of  the  late  John 
Nugent;  .Sarah,  the  wife  ni  James  Hiike,  a 
grocer  of  .St.  John;  C'atherine,  the  wife  of  An- 
drew I'auley,  of  .St.  John;  Patrick,  a  mason 
and  builder,  of  liangor,  Me.  ;  John,  the  direct 
subject  of  this  sketch;  and  .\nnie,  the  wife  of 
Robert  J.  Richie,  a  grocer  nn  Charlotte  .Slreet, 
St.  John. 

John  Flood  grew  to  manhood  and  was  edu- 
cated in  '.lis  native  city.  .\t  the  age  of  eigh- 
teen )e.irs  he  began  to  learn  llie  trade  of  mason 
and  builder  under  his  father,  b\-  whoin,  in 
I,S73,  he  was  taken  into  parlnersiiip,  tlu'  firm 
name  then  becoming  M.  I'  lood  C<:  .Sons.  l-'cn  a 
period  of  twelve  years,  or  until  1SS7,  they  did 
the  leading  business  in  ilie  city.  In  that  vear 
Mr.'  b'lood  went  tn  h'ri'dei  ictmi,  where  he 
creeled  the  government  departmental  building, 
tills  being  one  of  the  largest  contracts  of  the 
kind  ever  completed  in  the  Province.  Return- 
ing, afti'r  its  t'dinplet  inn,  to  .St.  John,  he  coii- 
tiinicd  in  business  there,  and  has  been  thus 
successfiill)'  engaged  up  to  the  ])iest'nt  time. 
Among  the  many  |)roniinent  public  buildings 
and  |)ii\ate  residences  erected  b\  him  mav  be 
mentioned  the  tnlhiwing:  the  I'liion  Chili 
House,  No.  3  hjigine  hiiMse,  l'',itlK'r  Con- 
iiidly's  |iaisoiiage  at  i.ouei  Co\i',  MacCaulay 
Hros.  6t  Co.  drv-goods  stiue  on  King  Street, 
the  industrial  school  at  .Silver  b'alls,  the  resi- 
dence of  Robert  I.ee,  the  n'sidence  of  Charles 
!•!.  liiackett  at  Hiike,  the  residence  uf  Rolieit 
Worden  of  .St.  Juiin,  and  his  own  handsome 
residence.      .Mr.   hlimd's  skill   as  a   craftsman, 


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and  his  iclialiility  as  a  nuiii  of  Inisincss,  may 
hv  inferred  from  the  luimber  and  importance  of 
his  contraits,  of  whieh  the  above  list  iiidieates 
i)ul  a  small  portion. 

Mr.  l''l<j(id's  lirst  w\ic,  Mrrtina  Tcjoniry, 
whom  he  man  icd  in  iSSo,  was  a  daii;;iiter  of 
the  late  Ilumiihiey  'I'oomey,  of  C'arleton,  St. 
John.  .She  (lied  in  iSMj.  ]\Ir.  I'Mood  married 
for  his  second  wife,  I'ehrnary  lo,  iScji,  Miss 
I'lli/.aheth  Xash,  a  danKlitei'  of  John  Nash,  of 
Moneton.  H\'  this  nnion  there  aie  fwc  chil- 
dren -  (leorL^e,  John,  Charles,  Marry,  and 
I'lli/aheth. 


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^i('ii.\i;i.    (;.\i,i..\(".iih:R,   of   the 

firm  of  M.  and  II.  (ial lather  i<: 
Co.,  .St.  John,  was  born  in  the 
])arish  of  Hampton,  Kings  Conntv,  X.Ii.. 
j\\)r\\  2,  iS^4,  son  of  liemy  and  .Mice  (Riley) 
( !alla";her. 

Henry  (iallaghcr  cmiijrated  from  County 
Tyrone,  Ireland,  ahont  the  year  iSjS,  and  set- 
tK'd  upon  a  farm  in  Kin.ns  Conntv,  where  he 
tilled  the  soil  industiionsl V  foi-  many  years. 
I''i\e  )ears  prior  to  his  deatli  he  retired  from 
active  labor,  and,  coining  to  .St.  John,  spent 
the  last  da\s  of  Ids  life  with  his  chiltlren. 
Ills  family  consisted  of  three  sons  and  si.\ 
daughters;  nameh',  Catheiine,  Hrid.get,  Henry, 
I'honias,  Maigaiet,  Mllcn,  .Michael,  IMary  Aim, 
and  Alice.  Catherine  is  the  widow  of  John 
McCaffrey,  late  of  St.  John.  Her  oidy  daugh- 
ter, Marv  Aim,  m.uiied  James  Kelley. 
Ibid.^et  i>  the  w  idow  of  bldward  I'iime.gan,  late 
of  .St.  John,  .ind  has  three  sons  I'idward, 
Ileiiis.    and      I'lioinas    J.        Margaret    married 


Thomas  Mullalv,  and  died  leaving  one  s(jn, 
Joseph  MuUaly.  Idlen  married  John  Warren 
(both  deceased).  Henry  is  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  M.  iS:  II.  (iallagher  &  Co.  Alice  is 
the  wife  of  MiclKud  R\aii,  of  the  aho\e  I'on- 
cern,  and  has  one  son,  lulward  J.  Ryan. 

]\IichaeI  (iailagher  was  brought  up  on  the 
homestead  farm  in  Kings  C(nintv.  Locating 
in  .St.  J<ihn  about  thirty-two  yt'ars  ago,  he  en- 
tered the  grocery  business  in  compaiu'  with  his 
brother  Henry,  establishing  the  firm  of  M.  & 
If.  (iailagher  &  Co.,  which  occupies  cpiarters 
at  ^4  Charlotte  Street,  and  has  long  received  a 
liberal  share  of  patronage.  .Although  jiie- 
vented  by  business  cares  from  giving  much 
time  to  public  affairs,  he  is  serving  with  abil- 
it\'  upon  the  Slaughter  House  Commission. 
He  takes  a  lixfly  interest  in  the  general  wel- 
fare of  the  community,  and  belongs  to  the  Irish 
Literary  and  Henexolent  Society. 

In  1.S76  Mr.  (iailagher  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  .Mary  Ann  Carlet<in,  who  was  b  )rn 
in  .St.  John,  daughter  of  James  Carlcton,  a  na- 
tive of  Iixdand.  riim  to  her  marriage  Mrs. 
("iailagher  was  a  successful  teacher  in  the  piib- 
1  ie  schools. 


Il.\Rl.i:S  l.i;\\IS  S.Miril,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  I'lcivincial  rarliament  of 
Xeu  liiunswick,  is  one  of  the  lead 
ing  agriculturists  of  Woodstock.  He  was  born 
Janii.irv  27,,  iS.i.i,  on  the  farm  which  be  now 
owns  and  occupies,  and  on  which  his  father, 
William  I).  .Smith,  was  born.  His  grand- 
f-itlur,  Miihael  .Smith,  came  with  the  I. oval 
ist    jiaity    to    Woodstock,    from    Long     Island, 


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N. Y. ,  in  1783.  Taking  np  a  large  tract  of 
land,  he  improved  tlie  present  iinmestead  iirnj)- 
crty,  and  carried  on  a  v'crv  iirofitaljle  i)iisine.ss 
as  lunil)erniaii  and  fanner,  lleacciiiired  a  ^nod 
estate,  consisting-  of  several  hundred  acres,  and 
and  at  his  death  gave  to  each  of  his  ciiildren  a 
farm.  He  was  for  a  nnndier  of  years  Justice 
of  the  I'eace.  The  maiden  name  of  iiis  wife 
was  i'hoehe  Kctchum. 

William  D.  Smitii  spent  his  entire  life  on 
the  old  home  farm,  and  was  l<nown  throughout 
this  section  as  one  of  tlie  most  thorough-going, 
cai)al)Ie,  and  enterprising  farmers  of  tiic  jihue. 
1  le  was  a  memhcr  of  the  Church  of  l-jigland. 
His  wife,  Jane  .Sharp,  was  a  daughter  of  Adam 
H.  Sliar]),  a  prominent  farmer  of  W'oodstocJs. 
(If  llicir  nine  ciiildren  eight  grew  to  matuiitv, 
namely:  Marian,  wife  of  I.  Ilazen  I'leeman, 
of  Brooklyn,  N.  \'.  ;  ]';iizahcth,  who  married 
Henry  Allnutt,  a  nejihew  of  the  Rev.  Newman 
Hall,  and  died,  leaving  one  chilil,  Alice,  wife 
(if  h'redcrick  Cookson,  of  Woodstock;  Henry 
li.,  also  of  Woodstock;  Caroline,  who  hecame 
the  wife  of  Alendo  Mekeney,  of  I'ortland,  Me., 
and  died,  leaving  one  daughter,  Carrie,  wife 
of  I'"rank  Upham,  of  Woodstock;  Isabelle,  wife 
(if  Amhriise  Hale\,  of  lloulton.  Mc.  ;  Cliailes 
Lewis,  the  sjiecial  subject  of  this  sketch; 
]'!mily,  wife  of  Jercmiaii  J.  Hale,  of  drafton, 
N.B.  ;  and  Helen,  wife  of  Wellington  A. 
Haley,  of  Waketield,  \.  H. 

Charles  1..  Smith  recc'vcd  a  practical  edu- 
cation in  the  granniiai'  school,  and  grew  to 
manhood  (in  his  father's  farm.  At  the  age  of 
twenty  tu;i  ycais  he  assumed  tlu'  entire  man- 
agenien!   of   the   homestead,    and    for   twoscore 


years  thereafter  carried  on  general  farming  and 
dairying.  He  was  a  jiioneer  in  the  milk  busi- 
ness in  this  part  of  tlu'  countw  having  started 
the  first  route  going  into  Woodstock,  and  for 
several  years  did  an  extensive  business  in  this 
line,  keeping  at  times  as  many  as  forty-nine 
cows.  He  now  confines  his  attention  to  the 
care  of  his  land  and  stock  ;  and,  altlioiigli  he 
has  but  a  small  dairy,  it  is  of  unusual  excel- 
lence, consisting  of  a  herd  of  se\en  registere^l 
Jersey  cows,  headed  by  a  superb  hull  of  the 
same  grade.  He  also  has  choice  swine,  some 
being  pure-blooded  Chesters  and  others  ^'(llk■ 
shires.  He  is  a  good  judge  of  stock,  and  ..'is 
appointed  l)\'  the  goveinment  of  New  Ihiins- 
wick  as  one  ol  the  commissioners  to  ]iroceed 
t.i  the  Provinces  of  Ontario  and  (juebec,  to 
jnu'cliase  pure-bred  stock  for  the  impKivcment 
of  stock  in  New  Brunswick.  That  was  one  of 
the  most  successful  importations  of  stock  ever 
made.  Mr.  Smith's  farm  contains  between 
four  hundred  and  five  hundrcl  acres  of  land,  of 
which  about  one  hundred  and  sixty  are  under 
cultivation.  He  rai.ses  large  cpiantities  of  ha\' 
each  year,  and  often  sells  as  main' as  si.xtv  tons 
in  addition  to  what  he  uses  himself. 

In  politics  Mr.  Smith  is  a  Liberal,  and  oc- 
cupies a  place  of  proniineiice  in  the  ranks  of 
his  jiaity.  In  iS.ST)  lie  was  elected  County 
Couiicilldr,  a  position  which  he  tilled  satisfac- 
to-ily  six  vears,  the  last  \ear  being  warden 
of  tlic  county.  In  l.S()j  1r'  declined  the 
nomiiiatiim  of  his  p.irty  Un  nienibeislii|i  in  the 
Provincial  Parliament,  but  in  iS()5  he  was 
elcctt'd  for  a  term  of  four  yc;iis.  At  tlu'  expi- 
ration of  thiee  jeais  and   six   nidUths,  however, 


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llic  lldLiSL'  (lissdK'cd;  and  un  ]'"cl)ni:iry  iS, 
1.S99,  he  \v:is  :i;,Min  cli-ftcd,  and  by  a  lari;ely 
increased  vnte.  He  lias  seived  un  tlie  Cim- 
tinj(ciit  Committee,  the  Aj;iiciiltuial  ((immit- 
tee,  and  the  ISInnicipality  C'<immittee. 

Mr.  Sinitii  married  Liiella  A.,  dauf^iiter  nf 
Jolm  I\IcC!ar\',  of  Iloiilton,  .Me.,  and  the\ 
have  live  cliildien,  namely:  ]'".va  ;  ]'.  ko\-  ('.  ; 
Arthur  Wilmot  and  .Albert  Dwi^ht,  twins; 
and  Harold  S.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Smitli  are  hotli 
members  of  the  Methodist  chureh,  of  which  lie 
is  a  trustee. 


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fs^oHX  WILSON'  vouxr.  sMrni,  of 

the  nrm  of  !•".  ]'.  Ried  &  Co.,  of  Monc- 
ton,  N.l). ,  was  horn  March  iS,  iSCxj), 
in  Halifax,  X.S.,  a  son  of  .'-lir  .Albert  j. 
Smith,  late  of  W'estmorlanil  C(iunly. 

He  is  of  Xew  luigland  ancestry,  his  great- 
grandfather, Bowen  .Smith,  having  been  liorn 
and  leared  in  that  part  of  the  I'nited  States, 
l.oyal  to  the  crown,  he  left  the  place  of  his 
birth  on  the  breakin;;-  out  <if  the  war  of 
indi'pendencc  of  America,  and  with  other 
pniminent  l.osali.sts  of  his  time  came  to  Xew 
liiimswick.  He  located  first  in  .Si.  John,  and 
then  removed  to  .Shediac,  where  he  successfully 
engagetl  in  ship-building  until  his  death,  when 
])ast  seventy  years  of  n,i;e.  His  wife,  I.iz/.ic 
l.\ons  Smith,  whom  he  married  in  St.  John, 
hole  him  nine  children,  of  whom  I.i/zie,  widow 
of  the  late  Arthur  (iilman,  is  the  sole  survivor, 

Thomas  K.  Smitli,  grandfather  of  John  W.  \'. 
Smith,  was  born  in  St.  John,  X.H.,  but  was 
educated  in  .Shediac,  where  his  part'Uts  settled 
when  he  was  (piite  \oung.       b'or  man)'  )ears  he 


carrieil  on  a  thriving  business  as  a  general 
merchant,  and  as  a  farmer  he  was  numbered 
among  the  most  induential  citizens  of  the 
town,  and  for  several  years  he  was  a  magis- 
trate, i'olitically,  he  was  a  Liberal,  and  he 
was  an  active  niendier  of  the  Cihurch  of  l'"ng- 
land,  to  which  all  of  his  famil\-  belonged.  lie 
died  at  the  advanced  age  of  seventy-four  ye;  's ; 
ami  his  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Rebecca 
Heckwoith,  lived  to  the  age  of  seventy-two 
years.  Of  their  seven  children,  three  are  now 
living — luluaid  J,  Cordelia,  and  Adelaide. 
Albert  J.,  son  of  Thomas  l',.  .Smith,  was 
born  and  reared  in  .Shediac,  N.H. ,  and  obtained 
his  general  education  in  New  lirunswick.  He 
subse(|ently  read  law,  and  aftei'  his  admission 
to  |iractiie  in  the  courts  hetame  one  of  the 
foremost  barristers  of  his  time.  He  also  ob- 
tained a  )irominent  place  in  the  [lolitical  arena, 
and  for  a  lumibci'  of  years  was  a  member  of  the 
]'ro\incial  House  of  Assembly  and  afterwaid 
of  the  I'arlianK'nt  of  Canada.  He  was  also 
Tremier  and  Attorney-Cieneral  <if  New  Ihuns- 
wick,  and  during  the  McKen/ie  administra- 
tion Minister  of  .Maiine  for  Canada.  He  was 
knii;htcd  by  the  crown,  and  was  offered  b_\-  the 
government,  hut  declined,  the  positions  of 
Lieutenant  (iovernor  of  No\a  Scotia  and  ol 
New  lirunswick,  and  likewise  that  of  Chii'f 
Justice  of  the  latter  Province.  He  died  in 
iS'S^,  leaving  an  honorable  record  as  a  man, 
as  a  citizen,  and  as  a  iniblic  officer.  t)n  June 
M,  1S6S,  he  married  Sarah  M.,  daughtei of 
John  Wilson  \'oung,  of  Halifa.x,  N.S.  ;  and 
their  son.  John  W.  \'.  Smith,  the  special  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch,  was  their  only  child. 


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Jciliii  W.  ^'.  Sniitli  attended  school  in  Oiic- 
bcc  for  several  years,  and  in  1891  ^'radiiated 
from  Hisliop's  College  in  the  Province  of  (Jiie- 
liee,  \'ery  soon  after  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  ]"rederK-i<  1'.  Ried,  and,  l)eeominj^  junior 
member  of  tiie  tlrm  witli  wiiieli  he  is  still  con- 
nected, estahlished  himself  in  business  as  an 
im])orter  and  wlndesale  dealer  of  j^roceries. 
His  Iradi'  is  ver\'  extensive  and  profitable. 
Mr.  Smith  has  been  successfid  in  the  sale  of 
real  estate,  and  has  the  care  of  the  line  prop- 
erty left  by  his  father.  Amon^  the  stock  coni- 
l)anies  in  which  he  has  more  or  less  interest  are 
the  following;-:  tlie  llavelock  Mineral  Sprinj;' 
Water  t'ompany,  in  which  he  is  a  lai';;e  stock- 
holder; the  ;\Ioneton  ^Manufacturing  anil 
l-'oundry  Company,  of  which  he  is  the  vice- 
|iresitlent  and  a  director;  the  Moncton  .Street 
Railway  Com|)L,n\-,  of  which  he  is  one  of  the 
directors;  and  various  larj;e  coal  mines  in  I'eini- 
.sylvania.  He  has  been  active  in  local  affairs, 
and  for  four  years  was  a  member  of  the  I'lovin- 
cial  Assembly  as  a  representative  of  Westmor- 
land County. 

On  September  7,  iSgj,  Mr.  Smith  niarricd 
Cornelia  1).  Roliinson,  daughter  of  the  late 
Major  William  I?.  Robinson,  of  .St.  John, 
N.  H.  They  have  one  child,  '.larjoi-ie,  who 
was  boin  in  March,  1894.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
.Smith  are  membeis  of  the  Church  of  Mngland, 
and   attend  at   St.    Ceorge's  Church,  M  pncton. 


lOMAS   C.\RL1;TC)\    Al.l.l.M,  Clerk 
of  the  Su|)reme  Court,  Clerk  in  lOquity, 
Clerk    of     the     Crown,    and    an    e.\-Mayor   of 


I''rederieton,  was  born  in  that  city  in  Novem- 
ber, 1S52.  He  is  a  son  of  the  late  Sir  John 
Campbell  and  Margaret  A.  (Drury)  Allen,  the 
former  of  whom  was  for  many  years  Chief 
Justice  of  New  lirunswiek.  An  extended 
account  of  this  distinguished  jurist  will  be 
found  on   another   page  of   the  Ri.\ii.\\. 

Thomas  Carleton  .\llen  atcended  the  I'red- 
ericton  Collegiate  .School  initil  i,Sf>8,  and, 
after  completing  his  general  studies  at  the 
Charlotte  County  Giammar  .School,  he  stud- 
ied law  with  Messrs.  Hotsford  and  Wetn.ore, 
of  I'redericton,  and  with  Messrs.  Charles 
Duff  and  Jeremiah  llarmon  Travis,  of  .St. 
John.  He  graduated  from  Harvard  Hniver- 
sity  Law  .School  with  the  degree  of  Haehelor  of 
Laws,  and  later  pursued  a  special  course  at  the 
same  institution.  In  October,  1S74,  he  be- 
came an  attorney,  being  admitted  as  a  barrister 
the  following  year,  and  practised  his  profes- 
sion alone  in  I'"redericton  until  1878,  when  he 
removed  to  St.  John  and  associated  himself 
with  W.  H.  Chandler  under  the  firm  name 
of  Allen  &  Chandler,  which  lirni  continued 
in  business  initil  1883.  In  April  of  that  year 
he  was  apiiointed  Clerk  <if  the  I'leas  and  Clerk 
in  Lqiiity,  and  has  since  occuiiied  this  respon- 
sible position.  While  in  practice  he  was 
retained  as  counsel  in  many  im|)ortant  cases. 
Mrs.  Merritt,  of  New  Yoik,  who  contested  the 
will  of  Charles  .Merritt,  a  case  which  involved 
a  very  large  estate,  retained  him  as  associate 
coinisel  with  the  late  C.  A.  I'abner,  (  i.C.  The 
case  was  finally  settled  by  the  attorneys  after 
remaining  in  court  for  three  years.  1  le  acted  as 
re|)orter  for  the  second  division  of  the  .Su|>reme 


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Court  lioni  1879  to  iSSi.  lie  was  elected 
Mayor  of  l^'rederictoii  in  iS(/),  i.S()i,:in(l  1  Sqj, 
;tiul  filled  the  office  to  the  j^eiieral  Scitislactioii 
of  the  citizens.  He  was  appointi'd  a  (Jiieen's 
Counsel  by  the  government  of  New  Mninswick 
in  1899. 

In  December,  iiS/S,  Mr.  Allen  married  a 
daughter  of  Judge  Wetmore,  of  this  city.  Ik- 
has  three  children :  Charles  11.,  who  is  about 
to  enter  the  I'niversity  of  New  Hrunswick; 
Kenneth  C,  a  iiupil  r.f  the  high  school;  and 
Lenore  Allen. 

Mr.  Allen  is  a  member  of  the  Church  of 
I'-iigland,  and  has  been  a  n:ember  of  the 
Cathedral   Chapter  for  two  years. 


'MKl'.Ml.MI  II.\RRIS(1N,  who  for  many 
)ears  has  been  one  of  the  k'ading  busi- 
ness men  of  St.  John,  was  bom  in  Ciim- 
l)ridge,  (Jueens  Count),  on  April  17,  i.SjT), 
son  of  the  late  lion.  Charles  and  .Mary  (liui- 
pee)  Harrison.  1 1  is  lather  was  foi- many  years 
a  member  of  the  Legislature  fidm  (Jueens 
County,  and  later,  upon  his  removal  to  Man- 
ger\'ille,  was  a  iiiember  of  the  I.egislati\e 
Council. 

Ml'.  Ilairison  was  educated  in  the  schools 
of  his  native  place  antl  at  a  giauuuar  school  in 
Suid)urv.  lie  went  to  .Newark,  N.J.,  but  after- 
waril,  after  sonn'  time  spent  theie,  he  returned 
to  .St.  John,  and  in  185(1  and  1851  In.'  built  the 
lirst  carriage  factory  erected  in  Portland,  it 
was  also  the  lirst  sti'am  carriage  fact(uy  in  the 
]irovince.  This  he  opi'ratcd  until  i.S'5C),  when 
it  was  (lestid\ed    b\'   lire.      During    that    time 


he  bought  the  lirst  Singer  sewing-machine 
ever  brought  into  the  province  After  the  tire 
he  sold  the  business  to  Messrs.  Price,  Crothcr.s, 
Shaw  &  .Sayer,  and  in  the  following  autumn 
he  began  the  construction  of  the  wharf  known 
at  that  time  as  Portland  Hridge.  lie  deals  not 
only  in  llour  and  feed,  but  in  general  groceries 
and  provisions  and  West  India  goods.  'I'he 
lirm,  which  consisted  of  Messrs.  J.  and  W.  l-'. 
Harrison  until  1.S.S4,  was  one  of  the  oldest 
established  here,  and  carried  on  one  of  the 
largest  trades  in  the  city.  Since  that  time 
Mr.  Jeremiah  Harri.son  has  cariied  on  tiie  busi- 
ness on  his  own  account.  Aside  from  his 
mercantile  business  Mr.  Harrison  has  been 
interested  in  various  other  affairs.  He  was 
one  of  the  original  stockholders  in  the  New 
{Brunswick  Railroad,  was  a  stockholder  in  the 
Spring  Hill  Mines,  owner  of  a  numbei- (jf  ves- 
sels, and  part  owner  of  many  others.  He  was 
also  one  if  the  original  siockhcdders  of  the 
Maiitime  Hank,  of  which  he  has  been  vice- 
president  and  one  of  the  directors.  During 
the  great  tire  of  1M77  lie  and  his  brother  met 
with  severe  loss,  and,  although  the\-  ha\'e  had 
reverses  since,  tliev  have  continued  to  do  a 
pnis])e!ons  business. 

Mr.  Harrison  was  married  in  1.859  to  Julia, 
daughter  of  the  Re\'.  Canon  Harrison.  Two 
children  have  blessed  this  union,  naiindx  : 
Annie  P.,  who  is  the  widow  of  Daniel  H. 
l.awson,  of  l.iver|ioid,  l-Jigland;  and  .Mar\  J. 
Mr.  Harrison  was  fcunierly  one  of  the  school 
trustees  and  a  \estr\nian  of  .St.  Luke's 
Church.  He  was  also  for  many  ) ears  a  coun- 
sel in  the  Poaitl  uf  'I'rade, 


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Ll'kl':i)     AUllUSTUS    STOCKTON, 


I'li.D.,  D.C.L.,  l.f-.I).,  n.C,  mem- 
ber of  the  I'lovincial  Parliament  for 
the  city  and  county  of  St.  John,  N.  li.,  and  a 
prominent  resident  of  St.  John,  was  horn  on 
November  2,  184-',  at  Stiidhcdin,  Kings 
Comity,  N.  H.  His  father  was  William  A. 
Stockton,  of  Sussex,  Kiuf^s  County,  and  his 
mother  was  Sarah,  daughter  of  the  late  Robert 
Oldfield,  who  came  to  this  country  from 
StockjKirt,  ICngland. 

Dr.  Stockton  is  descended  on  his  paternal 
side  from  Richard  .Stockton,  who  emigrated 
from  Cheshire,  luigland,  jirior  to  November 
8,  ifJSf),  settled  on  Long  Island,  N.Y.,  where 
he  reiiKiiued  for  some  lime,  and  suhseciucntly 
removed  to  lUirlington,  .\.J.,  where  he  be- 
came the  grantee  of  extensive  tracts  of  land, 
much  of  which  is  still  owned  by  his  descend- 
ants. His  son  Richard  removed  from  Long 
Lsland  to  I'rincelon,  N.J.,  ami  became  the 
purchaser  from  William  I'enn  of  six  thousand 
acres  of  land,  of  which  Princeton  is  now 
nearly  the  centre.  He  died  at  Princeton  in 
July,  i/ciy,  at  an  advanced  age,  leaving  six 
sons  —  Richard,  .Samuel,  Josepli,  Robert, 
John,  and  Thomas. 

Richard  Witham  .Stockton,  son  of  Samuel, 
was  born  at  Princeton,  N.J.,  in  173.1.  He 
married  December  s,  I75>  Mary  Hatfield,  of 
Klizabeth,  N.J.,  died  May  8,  1801,  and  was 
buried  at  Sussex,  Kings  County,  N.  H.  He 
served  under  the  crown  with  the  rank  of 
Major  during  the  American  Revolution,  and 
at  tiie  close  of  the  war  went  witii  the  Loyal- 
ists  to   New    Hruuswick.      Richard    Stockton, 


the  signer  of  the  Dt'claration  of  Indt'pendence, 
was  a  son  of  John,  above  named,  ;md  was 
therefore  a  first  cousin  of  Richard  Witham, 
the  Loyalist.  The  latter  left  ten  children, 
one  of  them  a  smi,  Andrew  Hunter,  great- 
grandtather  of  .\lfred  A.  Stockton. 

Andrew  Hunter  .Stockton  served  the  crown 
in  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  with  the  rank  of 
Lieutenant,  and  with  other  members  of  the 
family  emigrated  with  the  United  Lmpirc 
Loyalists  in  1783  to  St.  John,  then  known 
as  Parrtown.  Here  be  married  on  April  4, 
1784,  Hannah  Lester.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  by  the  Hon.  (ieorge  Leonard,  and 
was  the  first  marriage  to  take  place  in  Parr- 
town. .Subsequently  he  removed  to  .Sussex, 
Kings  County,  where  extensive  grants  of  land 
were  made  to  him.  He  served  as  a  member 
of  the  quorum.  He  w;is  born  on  January  3, 
1760,  died  in  May,  i8ji,  and  is  buried  at 
Sussex,  Kings  County,  N.  H.  He  left  three 
sons  and  one  daughter. 

His  second  son,  Charles  Witham  Stockton, 
grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was 
born  on  April  4,  1787,  and  died  on  July  i.:, 
iSfjQ.  William  A.  .Stockton,  above  named, 
second  son  of  Charles  Witham,  died  at  Sussex 
on  July  3,  1890,  at  the  age  of  seventy-six. 
He  was  married  to  .Sarah  Oldfield  on  April  2, 
1 840. 

Allred  A.  .Stockton  was  educated  at  the 
Acadeni)'  and  University  of  Mount  Allison, 
-Sackville,  N.H.,  graduating  from  the  Uni- 
versity in  1864  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  .Arts  and  as  valedictorian  of  bis  class,  and 
three  years  later  received  the   ^Llster's  degree 


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from  the  same   institution.      In    iH(hj  lie   was 

graduated    at    V'iitoria    I'liivcisity,    Cohmirj;, 

Out.,   wilii   tiic   (li.';;ii.x'   of    MailKlor  of    I.aw.s. 

In  |8S^  lu'  iiicivuil  tile  ilojjrcc  of   Doctor  of 

l'liiloso|)liy     on     e.NamiiKition     from      Illinois 

Wc'sleyan  University.     Tlic  following  vi'ar  he 

received  tlie   dej^rec  ol    Ooctur  of   Civil    Law 

from    tiie   University   of    Mount    .\llison   and  j 

in  18.S7  that  of  Doctor  of  Laws  in  c(uirse  from 

Victoria   University.      Kind's  Colle;.ce,  W'inil- 

sor,    N.S.,    ill    Jime,    1895,    conferred   on   him 

the   decree   of    Doctor  of    (.  iiil    Law.     After 

studying;  l.iw  willi   iiis   uncle,  the   late   ('.  \V. 

Stockton,  he  w.is  .ulinitted  to  the   bar  of    N'lW 

Hrunswick   in  Trinity  term,   1S6.S,  and  suhse- 

(|iieiitly  was  for  some  years  senior  nuMiiher  of  i 

the   I'lrni   of   A.    A.    S:    R.  O.  .Storkt( )f   .St. 

John.      That  firm  was  dissolved  in  1887,  since 

which    time    Dr.    Stockton    has   practised    l.iw 

under  his  own  name. 

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As  an  advocate  and  a  si)eaker   Dr.   .Stockton 

takes  hij,di  rank.  Altlioiij;!)  actively  eii,i,oaj;ed 
in  the  work  of  his  profession  and  of  public 
life,  yet  he  has  reiulen-d  valuable  services  to 
his  jirofession  by  cditini;,  in  18S3,  with  very 
extensive  notes,  "Hcrton's  Reports  of  the  .Sti- 
preme  Court  of  New  Hninswick."  He  pub- 
lisheil  a  work  on  Ailmiralty  Law  in  l.Sy4, 
containing;  the  new  rules  of  the  court  and  a 
ilii;cst  of  all  reported  Canadian  admiralty 
cases,  with  an  introduction  on  ^'cneral  admi- 
ralty jurisdiction,  and  in  1.S98  a  work  on  the 
"iMon.i.'.'  Doctrine"  and  other  topics.  Dr. 
.Stockton  was  for  some  years  an  examiner  for 
decrees  at  the  University  of  Mount  Allison 
in    political    economy  and    constitutional   his- 


tory and  in  l.iw  at  Victoria  University.  lie 
is  also  lecturer  in  admir.ilty  and  shipping;  and 
in  ccnstitution.il  history  and  law  in  the  Law 
.School  at  .St.  John,  \,  M.,  connected  with  the 
University  ol    King's  (  ,  Windsor,  N..S. 

He  was  for  sonn-  years  ,  .nher  of  the  Moard 
of  Rej;ents  of  the  University  of  Mount  Allison 
and  secretary  of  the  board:  president  of  the 
New  Hrunswick  Historical  .Society;  president 
of  the  .St.  John  Law  .Society  and  of  the  Harris- 
ters'  Society  of  New  Hrunswick;  and  he  is  a 
men'.bcr  of  the  Council  of  both  of  these  socie- 
ties, lie  has  been  a  member  of  the  Council 
of  the  .Society  for  the  Prevention  of  C'ruclty 
to  Animals  from  its  organization,  and  k'f;al 
adviser  and  prosecuting;  counsel  and  for  a 
number  of  years  Rei^istrar  of  the  Vice- 
admiralty  tiourt  of  New  Hrun.swick,  also  a 
director  and  correspond'  'cretary  of  the  .St. 

John  Mechanics'  Instit 

In  June,  1887,  he  was  .ip]iointed  by  the 
j;overnmcnt  of  New  Hrunswick  an  advisory 
and  honorary  me'",!)er  of  tiie  commission  to 
report  upon  the  amendment  of  the  "Law  and 
Practice  and  (,'onstitution  of  the  Courts  of  the 
Province."  Dr.  .Stockton  was  opposed  to  the 
confederation  of  the  Provinces  under  the  terms 
of  the  Act  of  Union,  but  favored  a  union  of 
the  Maritime  Provinces.  He  was  brouj;ht  up 
in  the  (dd  school  of  New  Hrunswick  Liberals, 
and  after  confederation  supported  the  Liberal 
])arty  in  Doniiuion  politics  till  1891,  when  he 
broke  with  his  party  on  the  question  of  com- 
mercial union  with  the  United  States,  hoKlinj; 
that  such  a  policy  was  hostile  to  the  empire. 
Since  then  he  has  in  h'ederal  [lolitics  favored 


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337 


tlio  l.iliL'ral  CoiisiTvativc  |);iity.  lie  sup- 
ported niaiiliiioil  suffrage,  and  thoujjlit  it  ini^lit 
lie  e.\pedient  ii)  the  popular  interest  to  elect 
the  Lieutenant  (iovernor  ol  the  diCferent 
Provinces  by  the  people  ol  the  i'rovince.  lie 
docs  not  lavor  tile  aholition  ol  ihe  Senate  of 
Canaila.  Me  thinks  tliat  body  is  necessary  as 
a  cheek  on  hasty  action  in  Icf^islation  in  the 
House  of  Commons,  but  if  any  chan^je  is  made 
in  selection  it  mij^ht  be  by  election  for  a 
specific  term,  either  by  a  direct  vf)te  of  the 
constituencies  or  by  the  I'rovincial  Legislat- 
ures. He  has  always  taken  an  active  interest 
in  public  education,  and  has  also  frequently 
written  for  the  press  on  different  subjects. 
At  one  time  he  was  one  ol  tlu'  editors  of  the 
Mtvitinic  Monthly  and  a<;aiii  a  corresjiondinR 
editor  of  /.<;  Kii'iii-  L'rili</iii,  a  le^al  publica- 
tion 111  Montreal,  both  of  which  have  now 
ceased  '  >  exist. 

For  lumber  of  years  Dr.  .Stockton  took  an 
active  i  rest  in  military  affairs,  and  at  the 
time  of  I.  union  in  i  .S67  he  held  a  commis- 
si(m  as  (  aptain  in  the  I'rovincial  militia. 
lie  is  a  I'ast  Master  of  the  Masonic  order  and 
a  member  of  tlu(irand  Lodj;e  of  New  Bruns- 
wick, lie  is  prominently  identifkd  with  the 
temperance  reform  movement,  and  is  one  of 
the  trustees  of  Centenary  Methodist  Church  in 
St.  John,  of  which  also  he  is  a  valued  anil 
efficient  member. 

Dr.  .Stockton  was  married  on  September  5, 
1871,  to  Amelia  l{.,  second  dauj;hter  of  the 
Rev.  Iluni])hrey  I'ickard,  D.I).,  of  Sackville, 
N.H.  Dr.  I'ickard  was  for  over  a  cpiarter  of 
a  century  president  ol  the  educational  institu- 


tions at  .Sackville  and  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent educators  of  the  .M.iritime  I'rovinccs  of 
('anada. 


D(ir(;i..\S  .\rsriN,  a  promi- 
nent meiihant  and  shipowner  of 
.St.  John,  was  born  in  Canninj;, 
<Jueens  Comity,  N.H.,  in  iS^',  sou  of  .Samuel 
ami  Ann  (Marshall)  Austin.  His  father  was 
born  in  .St.  John  in  171)-;  :i'id  his  j;randfather, 
.Samuel  .\ustin,  .Sr.,  who  was  a  nati\e  of  \'ir- 
ginia,  came  to  St.  John  with  the  l.osalists  in 
178^,  beinj;  the  only  one  of  si.\  brothers  who 
adhered  to  the  ciown.  I'pon  settling'  here  he 
engaj^ed  in  buildinj;,  which  occupation  he  fol- 
lowed (luiiiij;  his  active  years.  lie  was  a 
member  of  the  Chinch  of  Lngland.  lie  mar- 
rieil  I'iva  (label,  dauf;hter  of  David  (iabel,  who 
was  a  native  of  l'"rankfiut -on-the-Main,  Cer- 
many.  .She  was  the  molheidf  eleven  children, 
of  whom  Samuel.  Jr.,  was  the  eldest.  .Samuel 
Austin,  .Sr.,  was  accidentally  drowned  in  iSjq, 
His  wife  survived  him  more  than  twenty  years, 
and  died  in  1^5^,  at  the  a;;e  of  ninety-six. 
S.imuel  .\ustiii,  Jr.,  M.  Dou};l,is  Austin's 
fathei',  was  brou-ht  u|i  on  a  faini  in  Scotch- 
town,  <jueens  County.  He  became  a  sueeess- 
lul  farmer,  and  also  en^^aged  in  the  bunber 
business.  He  attended  the  Cluurh  nf  I'jig- 
land.  His  wife,  .\nn,  was  a  (lau,i;hter  of  John 
Marshall,  a  l,o\alist,  who  came  to  St.  John 
from  Hdston.  They  had  three  children, 
nanii'ly  :  M.  Dou-las,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  Henry  .\.,  who  was  biuii  lul\-  11, 
i.S.^.^;  ami  Charlotte  .Maria,  who  married  Will- 
iam   Ross,    of    Woodstock,    N.  Ii.      The    father 


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ilird    in    1S42,   aiul    llic   innlhcr    died    in    1S75, 
;ij;rd  scwiity  ninu. 

M.  I  )iiii;;l;is  Anslin  le'.sidi'd  iin  .1  l;irin  until 
lu'  was  twiMity  yi'iirs  did,  when  lu-  lanu'  In  St. 
jniih  and  cnlcicd  the  oniphiy  ol  Ruhi'it  K(il)crt- 
siin  in  tlic  j^cncral  niorcantilo  business.  He 
remained  there  until  1S53,  wJH'n  he  eslahlislied 
his  piesent  liusiness  ini  R(ii)ei  tsun's  W'hart, 
Iniliantnuii.  1 1  is  iinitiier,  llenrv  .\.,  was  as- 
sneiated  with  him  lor  tliirteeii  years.  .\l'ter 
till'  w  illuh.iual  (i|  his  hioiju'r  hum  ihi'  lirm, 
Mr.  .M.  1  )iiuj;his  .\usl  in  eanied  (in  the  enter- 
prise aiiiue  tiir  sume  years,  hut  his  sun  is  nnw 
associated  witli  him.  !!e  is  hirj^ely  interested 
in  shippiiT;  and  liu'  West  India  tiade,  and  is 
.me   lit    the    most    sueeesslul    menhants  nl    St. 

In  iSfij  Ml',  .\uslin  was  united  in  man  ia^o 
with  Miss  i'helie  ('.  Kohertson,  dauj^hter  ol 
kiiliLit  Rohertsiiii,  ulm  emigrated  trom  I'eitl,- 
shire,  Sentl.  .1,  in  i*-'iS,  and  was  ,1  pnimini'nt 
meiehant  in  .St.  Jnhu  until  iSi)4.  when  he  re- 
tired trcim  aeti\e  business  pursuits.  'J  hey 
have  line   sun,   .Mai  shall    1).,  who   was   burn    in 

I  sri.s. 

Mr.  .\u-'tin  was  a  niemlier  ,1!  tiie  I'nrtlaud 
Cits  ("iiuneil,  .iml  bed  iii;;s  tn  rninii  l.iidj;e, 
]•■.  I'v:  .\.  M.  lie  attei-.ds  the  .Melhudisl 
ehuirh. 


i,^ 


|)\\.\RI)  \VI\S1.()\V  .MIl.l.I.R,  lor 
m.uiy  lears  a  well-known  b.nri.ster- 
at-lawiu  l'"red"riLti)n,  his  uativccity,  wa.s  born 
on  ( *eti>ber  y,  i.Sji,  son  nt  lulward  Winslow 
and  Mary  ( Winslow )  Miller.  Ills  paternal 
gr.indlather,  .Stephen  Miller,  who  was  born    in 


Ma.ssaehuselts  in  i/-/,  was  the  lirst  ol  the 
lamilv  to  settle  in  New  lirnnswick.  Stephen 
M  iller  married  .\pril  Jo,  \/<'^,  llannah  Dyei', 
(laii;;hter  ol  William  and  llannah  ( llowland ) 
I  >yer  and  step-ilau,:;hter  of  bldward  Winslow, 
whomariied  Mrs.  Dyer  alter  the  >leath  of  her 
lirst  husband.  Their  ehildren  were:  I'enel-t 
op'',  horn  in  I7''>.f;  (ieorue,  born  in  I'C^S- 
.Stephen,  born  in  1 7''>7 ;  .San.h,  born  in  1770; 
i;ii/abeth  Kent,  born  in  '.7/2;  I'.dward  Wins- 
low, born  at  Milton,  March  S,  I77,>;  .Sanniel, 
hoin  in  1775;  Hannah  Winslow,  born  in 
1777;  and  l,uc\'  Ann,  horn  in   r77(). 

I^lward  Winslow  .Miller,  first,  was  the  si.vth 
child  of  .Stephen  and  Hannah  (Dyer)  Miller. 
He  accompanied  his  parents  to  New  Bruns- 
wick, where  he  ,L;rew  to  manhood,  and  spent 
his  active  lite,  I'or  more  than  thirty  years 
he  was  iIi,L;h  .Sheriff  of  \'ork  County.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Church  of  l!ni;laiul.  ile 
died  in  l'"red<.  ricton,  Julv  J.?,  1S47.  His 
wile,  Marv,  whom  he  married  Di'Ci'iuber  i.j, 
l.Soi,  died  |, 11)11, irv  15,  i>>4.i,  ai;ed  si.\ty-foiir 
'  years.  She  was  the  eldest  (l.ui,i;hter  of  tlie 
Hon.  lOlward  Winslow.  Her  father  w.is  a 
liiK'al  deseeiulant  ol  the  dist iiiL;uished  "  May- 
flower" rili;rim  and  sometime  (iovi'rnor  of 
the  i'lymoiith  Colonv  wlmsi'  name  he  bine. 
Mrs.  Mary  Winslow  .Miller  was  the  mother 
of  ten  children  —Ann,  Marv  l'"Ii/abeth,  Cath- 
erine l.iitwveh.  Haul), ill,  Harris  William, 
Chailes  William,  (ieor,L;e  Went  worth,  Sie|)hen, 
Mary  .Ann  I'.li/abeth,  and  lvlw,ird  Winslow 
(second),  t  hily  three  of  these  .i;rew  to  matu- 
rity, namelv:  .Stephen,  who  w.is  a  p/rominont 
barrister    at    I-'redericton ;    M.iry    Ann    l^li/ia- 


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beth,  who  niarriL-d  Sir  Jaiiu's  Cart  it;  and  lul- 
w..:(l  Winslnw,  second. 

SainiR'l  Miller,  a  l>rothcr  of  Ivlw.ird  Winsl.iw 
Miller  (lirsl),  was  a  well-known  and  <lislin- 
giiisluil  officer  in  the  American  arniv.  In 
eomniand  ol  the  Marines,  he  played  an  im- 
portant part  in  the  War  of  1 8 1  j  and  was 
severely  wonnded.  Sanniel  died  at  ThikKkd- 
piiia  at  the  a^'e  of  eitrhty-one  from  a  disease 
I'ontracted  in  the  l'"lorida  war.  i 

lldward  Winslow  Miller,  second,  the  siih-  i 
ject  of  this  sketch,  coni|iIeted  his  education  at  , 
Kin.:,'"s  Collej;e,  now  the  University  of  New 
Hrnnswick,  and  was  a  studi'nt  under  David 
Shaid<s  Kerr.  Afcer  finishing;  his  hiw  studies 
and  hecominjj;  a  barrister,  lie  i)ractise(l  liis 
profession  in  I'Vederictnn  for  the  rest  of  his 
life.  As  a  lawyei'  lie  displayed  a  solicitude 
for  protecting;  the  irjterest:;  of  his  clients 
which  <;ained  theii'  esteem  and  eonlulence.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Conservative. 

Mr.  Miller  married  on  Au^^ist  C,  1851, 
i'lli/aheth,  dau<;hter  of  Justin  Sp.ihnn.  Iler 
father  was  a  native  of  ('hau\-de-l'"onds,  Can- 
ton Xeuchatel,  .Switzerland,  and  a  jeweller  by 
trade.  When  he  was  si.\teen  years  old  lie 
came  to  America,  and,  after  livint;  two  years 
in  I'liiladidphia.  settled  in  {'"redericton,  where 
he  succe-  fully  conducted  busini'ss  for  many 
years,  or  imtil  his  death,  which  oceuired  in 
iSsT).  1 1  is  wife's  nanu' was  Mli/ahetli  Mcl'her- 
son,  and  she  was  a  uati\eof  .Scotland.  Mr.  and 
Mrs,  Miller  became  the  p.nents  of  three  chil- 
dri-n,  two  of  whom  died  in  infancv,  namely: 
Marv  Winslow  Miller,  who  was  born  M.iy  hi, 
185J,    and    died    August     15,    1S52;    lidward 


Winslow    Miller,    born    April    19,    1853,  died 
April  22,   I.S5V 

Ivlwani  Winslow  Miller  was  a  member  of 
lliram  I.od^e,  I'".  iS:  .\.  M.,  and  h.id  advanced 
in  the  order  to  the  Roy.il  Arch  dej;ree.  Ik- 
was  a  member  of  the  C'hurch  of  I'.nj^land. 
lie  died  ( )ctoher  2  2,  iSh(),  leaving;  Mrs. 
Miller  and  one  son,  ( ieorj;e  .Spahnn,  who  was 
born  (  )ctobc-r  _'ii,  1M55,  and  died  (  )ctober  1, 
I  886.  (leorge  Spahnn  Miller  was  educated  at 
the  Collcf^iate  .School,  P'rederietor.,  and  was  a 
well-known  accountant.  Al  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  accountant  and  paymaster  on  the 
Canada  Mastcrn. 


K.WK  l.i\(()I.\  Ki;\.\i;\',  ,M.I)., 
.St.  |ohn  West,  was  bom  in  .St,  b  'in, 
July.),  I  SCi.j,  sun  (il  .\iidiew  and  Margaret  I  a 
(.Smith)  Keniiey.  lie  is  a  ijrandsim  of  Isaac 
ivenney,  a  native  of  Nova  .Scotia,  and  the  sou 
of  a  Loyalist,  who  settled  in  Harriiif^ton,  \..S. 
Isaac  Keniiev   maiiied  Lvdia  Covell. 

.Xndn'w  Keniic\,  s<inof  Isaac  and  l,\ili,i,  was 
born  ill  l!ai  iiny;ton,  \..S.  I  le  was  a  sea  cajitain, 
and  ill  the  pursuit  (jf  his  calling;  \isiled  nearlv 
all  the  niai  it  inie  countries  of  till-  \\(ii  Id.  In  1  S.) 3 
he  settled  in  .Si.  jiijin,  where  he  resided  until 
his  de.itli,  ill  iS^S',  at  the  .rj.e  of  si\t\two 
years.  1 1  is  wife,  Marj;ari.'.t.i,  died  (Jii  .Se|)tein- 
bei  17,  l8().i,  at  the  a};e  of  seveiit\ -three 
years.  'Ihes'  were  the  pan'iits  of  the  fnlNiw- 
iiij;  ihildii-ii:  .Mai\  Llinoi,  wile  nl  TlKinias 
\'icker\  ;  .\ndrew  I'"ieeni,iii,  a  lesiik'iil  of  .St. 
lolin;  l''rantes  jane,  widow  of  Charles  Ilu);li 
llanaford;  Lli/.a  Alice,  who  married  William 


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Smitli,  III  '^i  Jdlin,  and  is  ikiw  deceased; 
l.N'dia  Ann,  wile  nl  (',.  N.  Karnahy.  (if  ]{ridj,'e- 
tdwn,  N.S.  ;  Maryaretta  Alheita,  wile  of 
!•].  ]|.  Israel,  of  Hoston,  Mass.;  lulnuind 
JJiiane,  now  deceased;  Junest  iXifred,  also  de- 
ceased; r:dilh  Kate,  wife  of  1-".  \.  Heattie,  of 
lioslon,  Mass.;  and  l'"rank  I..,  whose  iianie 
begins  this  sketch.  Captain  Kenne\-  was  a 
l'"iee  Mason,  anti  he  and  iiis  wife  were  holli  j 
iiicniheis    of     the    IMethodist   church 

l''ianl<  Lincoln  Kcnncy  received  his  general 
education  in  the  .St.  John  (iraniinar  School  anil 
at  the  University  of  New  I?runs\vick,  where  he 
i;raduated  liachelor  of  .\iis  in  iS.S^.  llesuh- 
sec|uently  studied  medicine  at  Mc(!ill  I'ni- 
versity,  from  which  lie  received  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine  in  i.SSS.  J''or  some  time 
he  was  su|)erintenilent  of  the  (ieneial  I'uhlic 
Hospital.  In  i.SSij  he  located  in  C'arletoii, 
wlierc  he  has  since  built  uji  a  successful  practice. 

He  was  married  I'ebruary  i  i,  iiS()5,  to  Miss 
J'.dith  R.  I'eters,  a  dauLjhter  of  Dr.  Maitin 
II.  IVters.  (Sec  sketch  of  Kurd  Tclcrs  on 
another  ]'ai;e  of  this  volume.)  Dr.  Kenney 
is  a  member  of  the  Dominion,  Maritime,  and 
New  Hrunswick  .Mt'dical  Societies,  the  Inde- 
pendent ()icler  of  Odd  I'"ellows,  and  also  of  the 
l''oreslers,  and  is  on  the  staff  of  the  (ieneral 
Public  Ilos]iital.  He  belongs  to  the  Church 
of  ICngland. 

|IIARl.i:S  \VII.I,I.\M  Si'Cii:i:,  a  well- 
known  contractor  and  builder  of  St. 
John,  was  born  in  that  city  in  1S47. 
His  parents  were  Jaines  William  and  Henrietta 
W.dlop  (Laskey)  Seyee,  the   former  of   whom 


was  born  in  I'redcrictoii  in  1S18.  liisj^reat- 
y;randfathcr,  William  Sei^ee,  came  from  l'-n,i,'- 
laiid  with  a  rej;inient,  and  served  as  an  oiricer 
in  the  Royal  army  durin;^  the  Revolutionary 
War.  Settling  in  I-'redericton  after  the  close 
of  hostilities,  he  eni^ai^ed  in  navifjatinj;;  the 
St.  John  River,  owninj^  and  commanding;  the 
first  sloop  to  carry  passengeis  on  this  water- 
way, and  also  the  first  steamboat,  the  old 
"John  Ward."  lie  enj^aged  in  ship-building 
to  some  extent,  anel  a  bark  launched  by  him  at 
I'redericton  was  des|)atched  to  Ireland  for  the 
purjiose  of  transporting  a  party  of  e;  I'll  grants 
to  New  Hrunswick.  He  continued  in  busi- 
ness on  the  river  until  1S54,  when  he  retired 
and  was  succeeded  by  his  son  Charles.  The 
lla/.en  Iiouse,  located  about  three  miles  below 
the  city,  was  erected  by  him.  He  died  in 
I'Vedericton  at  an  advanced  age.  His  family 
consisted  of  five  sons — Thomas,  James,  Will- 
iam, Joseiib,  and  Charles.  James  .Segee,  Mr. 
.Segee's  grandf.itber,  who  was  a  farmei-,  mar- 
ried a  Miss  McCarty,  who  came  to  Nc'.v 
Hrunswick  i;i  1783,  when  she  was  twelve  years 
old.  Their  children  were:  James  William, 
Mar\'  Ann.  and  .Sarah.  Mary  Ann  married 
Ciptain  Hclyei,  and  resided  in  Lnglaml, 
where  she  died  1,1  1890.  .Sarah  married,  and 
is  no  longer  living.  James  Segee  died  at 
about  forty-live  years  of  age,  and  his  wife  died 
in  1.S46. 

James  William  .Segee,  Charles  W.  Segee's 
father,  rcsicled  in  I'Vedericton  imtil  he  w.is 
si.xteen  years  old,  when  the  family  removed  to 
St.  Joiin,  whc-e  alter  his  lather's  de.tth  his 
mother  taught  scluud.      At  the  age  of  eighteen 


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he  engaiijed  in  boating  on  the  river,  in  the 
employ  of  liankin  &  Pollock,  and  advanced 
until  he  hccanie  master  of  the  "Maiden  Trans- 
it" and  the  "Dott."'  He  was  mate  of  the 
"Conc|ueror"  when  she  was  sunk.  During 
his  later  years  he  manufactured  jiatent  medi- 
cine, and  became  well  known  throughout  the 
[irDvince.  His  wife,  Henrietta,  whom  he 
married  in  1843,  was  a  native  of  Long  Reach, 
Kings  County,  and  daughter  of  Jacob  Laskey, 
who  came  from  the  States  after  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  James  William  .Segee  was  the 
father  of  nine  children,  namely:  Murray 
James,  who  died  at  the  age  of  five  years; 
Charles  William,  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
John  Alfred,  of  St.  John:  James  luisley,  of 
New  Hampstead;  (jeorge  Allen,  who  died  in 
Hoston  at  the  age  of  thirty-six  years;  Mur- 
ray Hartley,  who  died  in  1885  at  twenty 
years  of  age;  Henrietta,  who  died  in  1888 
at  thirty-five;  Matilda,  whose  death  occurred 
in  iSC>[;  and  I'Jnma,  who  married  William 
Marshall,  of  St.  John.  The  father  died  at 
the  age  of  seventy-three  in  1891.  The  mother 
is  still  living,  and  retains  much  of  her  former 
mental  and  physical  vigor. 

Charles  William  .Segee  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  St.  John.  At  the  age  of  sixteen 
he  began  to  serve  an  apprenticeshi])  of  four 
years  at  the  carriage  manufacturing  trade  with 
Jacob  l?acon,  of  Carleton.  At  the  age  of  eigh- 
teen he  enlisted  in  l-'eters  liattery,  organized 
to  serve  in  the  expected  P'enian  outbreak.  In 
1869  he  started  in  business  for  himself  in  St. 
John  as  a  contractor  and  builder,  and  this  oc- 
cu|)ation  he  has   since   followed   with   the  ex- 


ception of  the  years  1880  and  i88r,  which  he 
spent  in  New  \'ork  City. 

In  1S70  Mr.  Segee  married  Miss  Charlotte 
Isabelle  Warden,  .1  native  of  (Jueens  County 
and  daughter  of  Ca])tain  Isaac  Warden,  who 
came  from  Nova  Scotia  and  was  of  Loyalist 
descent.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  .Segee  have  had  five 
children,  nani'.ly:  Lillian  ICthel,  wife  of 
G.  K.  Titus,  of  St.  John;  William  Allen 
.Segee,  who  married  Miss  Julia  Ramsay,  and 
is  residing  in  St.  John;  Charles  Walter,  who 
died  in  1881,  aged  ten  months;  Laura  I.,  who 
died  on  Christmas  Lve,  1898;  and  Charles 
Stanley  Segee. 

Mr.  .Segee  is  a  member  of  Peerless  Lodge, 
I.  O.  O.  v.;  the  Lncampment  and  the  Can- 
ton: also  of  the  Temple  of  Honor,  the  Good 
Templars,  Sons  of  Temperance,  and  the  In- 
dependent Order  of  I'oresters.  Mrs.  Segee 
belongs  to  the  Good  Templars  and  the  Lodge 
of  Rebeccas.  The  family  atten.l  the  Water- 
loo .Street   Haplist   Church. 


r^Tc^x.   Roiii-RT   J.  Rriciiii:.  n.c, 

f— ■I       I'idice  Magistrate,   and  Judge  of    the 

^— '  (  ity  Court,  -St.    John,    was   horn    in 

that  city  October  12,   1843,  son  of  MaiuKiduke 

and  Catherine  (Hunter)  Ritchie. 

Marmaduke    Ritchie 
Ireland,  in  iS 


hie  was  born  in  Jielfast, 
Si  I.  Coming  to  New  Hrunswick 
in  183:;,  he  resided  in  .St.  John  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  1887.  His  wife,  Ca'h- 
erine,  whom  he  married  in  1837,  died  in  1807. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  I-'rancis  lluntcr,  \,ho 
came  from   Kings  Ctiunty,    Ireland,    in    1819, 


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the  year  in  whieh  slie  was  lioni,  and  settled 
uixjii  a  farm  in  St.  John  County. 

Kohert  J.  Ritehie  obtained  his  early  ecUica- 
tiou  at  the  St.  John  Grammar  .Scl)ool  and 
Catholic  Seminary.  In  1861  he  bej^an  the 
study  of  law  witli  the  late  John  G.  Camiibell, 
Q. C. ;  vas  admitted  an  attorney  in  1865,  and 
as  a  barrister  in  1866.  Immediately  entering 
into  the  practiee  of  his  profession,  he  conducted 
a  profitable  j;eneral  law  business.  In  1878  lie 
was  elected  as  an  indejiendent  to  represent  St. 
John  in  the  Provincial  Assemi)ly,  and  was  the 
successful  candidate  of  the  Liberal  party  for 
the  same  position  in  1882.  In  the  following- 
year  as  Solicitor  (ieneilil  lie  was  reelected  by 
acclamation,  and  at  the  general  election  in 
1886  he  was  again  elected  on  the  same  ticket. 
He  was  a  niember  of  the  Hlaii'  administration, 
in  which  he  adniirablv  filled  the  office  of 
Solicitor  (ieneral  fron)  18S3  to  1889,  and  in 
the  latter  year  he  accepted  the  appointment  of 
Police  Magistrate  and  Judge  of  the  City  Court 
of  .St.  John.  He  received  his  appointment  as 
(Jueen's  Counsel  from  the  Conservative 
(iovennnent. 

In  September,  1877,  Judge  Ritchie  married 
Mary  .Short,  daughter  of  John  -Short,  of  .St. 
.Stephens,  N.  H.,  and  a  descendant  of  nortii  of 
Ireland  ancestrv.  The)'  have  one  son,  l'.(\- 
nnind  Short  Ritchie.  Judge  Ritchie  has 
served  as  president  of  the  Irish  I-'riendly  .So- 
ciety, the  e.xecutive  chair  of  which  his  father 
once  occupied,  and  was  also  president  of  the 
L'nion  Clul).  He  is  a  meniiier  of  liie  .St.  John 
.School  Board,  the  Lunatic  .\sylum  Counu't- 
tee,  and  the  governing  boanl  of   the    Industrial 


School  for  Hoys ;  is  tli rector  of  the  Horticult- 
ural Society,  and  vice-president  of  the  Catholic 
Temperance  .Society  of  America. 


manager   of  the 


7^1  i:\RY    A.    AU.STIN 

New  York  Life  Insurance  Company 
for  the  Province  of  New  Brunswick, 
was  born  in  Canning,  Oueens  County,  July  11, 
1833.  His  parents  were  .Samuel  and  Aim 
(Marshall)  Austin,  the  fornu'r  of  whom  was 
born  in  St.  John  in  1792. 

His  grandfather,  Samuel  Austin,  .Sr. ,  who 
was  a  native  of  Virginia,  and  was  of  PJiglish 
ancestry,  came  from  New  \'ork  with  the  Loyal- 
ists in  1783,  followed  the  occupation  of  a 
builder  here  for  many  years,  and  was  accident- 
ally drowned  in  1829.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Church  of  Lngland.  He  marrietl  V.vii 
Ciabel,  daughter  of  David  (label,  who  was  a 
native  of  l"rankfort-on-the-Main,  (icrmany. 
I^leven  children  were  born  of  this  union,  .Sam- 
uel, Henry  A.  Austin's  father,  being  among 
the  oilier  ones.  Mrs.  h'.va  tiabel  Austin  lived 
to  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-si.\  years. 

Samuel  iXustin,  Jr.,  was  brought  up  to  farm 
life  in  Scotchtown,  (Jiieens  Count v,  and  was 
a  prosperous  farmer  and  lumberman.  He  died 
in  1842,  and  was  survived  by  his  wife,  Ann, 
whom  he  married  in  182S,  and  their  three 
children  -  M.  Douglas,  Henry  A.,  and  Char- 
lotte Maria.  M.  Douglas  .Austin  is  a  prosper- 
ous merchant  of  .St.  John.  Charlotte  Maiia 
was  the  wife  of  William  Ross,  of  Woodstock, 
'S.W.  .She  died  in  1853.  'I'he  mother  died 
in  1875,  ageil  se\enl)-nine.      She  was  a  ilaugh- 


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UT  of  Joliii  Marsliall,  who  came  from  Unston 
with  the  Loyalists.  His  parents  came  to 
America  from  Glasgow,  Scotland. 

Henry  A.  Austin  obtained  iiis  education  in 
the  common  .schools  of  liis  native  town  and  at 
the  Sackville  Academy.  Coming  to  .St.  John 
in  1854,  he  entered  the  employ  of  Hastings 
]?rothers  as  a  clerk  in  the  dry-goods  business. 
He  remained  there  eight  )ears,  and  at  the  ex- 
piration of  that  time  he  went  to  Iiuliantown, 
where  he  was  associated  with  his  brother, 
M.  I).  Austin,  in  the  general  merchandise  and 
shi[>i)ing  business.  In  1S77  he  was  obliged  to 
withdraw  from  this  lirni  on  account  of  ill- 
health,  and  for  the  next  four  years  was  unable 
to  attend  to  business.  I-'rom  iSiSi  to  1884  he 
was  engaged  in  a  real  estate  and  mercantile 
enterprise  in  Manitoba,  but  a  rei)ellion  in  that 
country  caused  a  general  dejjression  in  i)usi- 
ness,  and  Mr.  Austin  returneil  to  St.  John. 
He  then  became  manager  of  the  New  York 
Life  Insurance  Company  for  the  Province  of 
New  IJiiinswick,  and  lias  built  up  a  \mj^c  busi- 
ness in  that  line. 

In  1876  Mr.  Austin  was  joined  in  marriage 
with  Miss  Amelia  R.  I'".aton,  daughter  of  the 
late  Aaron  l'"aton,  who  for  many  vears  was  one 
of  the  leading  business  men  of  .Si.  Joim. 
'I'bey  ha\e  had  two  children  imrn  to  them, 
lulna  Laura  and  Ralph  Waldo  .Xuslin.  The 
latter  is  in  the  employ  of  W  .  11.  Thome  li  Co., 
of  St.  John. 

Mr.  .Austin  is  prominent  in  tiie  .Masonic 
order,  and  has  advanced  to  the  Conmiandery. 
He  was  one  of  the  oigani/eis  of  tiie  lodge  of 
tlie  Indepeiulent  Oriler  of  Otld  l'"ellows  at  I'ort- 


laiul,  and  was  its  first  presiding  officer,  was  for 
many  years  a  mendjcr  of  the  Sons  of  Temper- 
ance, and  a  trustee  of  the  Centenary  Methodist 
Church.  I  le  was  a  member  of  the  I'rovinciu! 
Assend)ly  from  1S74  to  1878. 


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i:()R(H':  G()lH'Ri:V  (ill.HKRT, 
\|^J.  <,jC. ,  one  of  the  most  able  lawyers 
of  St.  John,  was  born  in  that  city,  October  9, 
1826,  son  of  Henry  and  l^liza  (Simonds)  (Gil- 
bert. His  first  ancestor  on  the  [jaternal  side 
of  whom  there  is  any  authentic  record  was 
John  (iilbert,  an  I'jiglishman,  who  settled  at 
Dorchester,  Mass.,  about  1630.  In  1637  he 
removed  to  Taunton,  Mass.,  where  he  died  be- 
tween May,  i(')54,  and  June,  iC>S7-  H'^  ^^ill 
mentions  other  childien,  one  a  son  (iiles. 
His  son  Thomas  returneil  to  Lngland  in  1653. 
He  was  married,  and  he  left  his  family  in 
Taunton.  Thomas  (iilbert,  second,  son  of 
Thomas,  and  grandson  of  John,  married  Anna 
lilake,  of  Milton,  Mass.,  v\ho  bore  him  eight 
children.  One  of  these,  Captain  Nathaniel 
Gilbert,  the  next  in  line,  married  Hannah 
Bradford,  daughter  of  Samuel  Ihailford,  of 
Duxbury,  Mass.  (a  grandson  of  Governor  W'ill- 
iam  liradlord),  and  had  a  familv  of  seven  chil- 
dren. 

Thomas  Gilbert,  third,  son  of  Cajjtain  Na- 
thaniel and  Hannah  (Uradforil)  Gilliert,  was 
born  in  lierkeley,  Mass.,  and  lived  for  some 
time  at  .Assonet.  He  served  as  a  Colonel  in 
the  Uritish  army,  and  in  1783  he  came  with 
other  Loyalists  to  New  lirunswick,  receiving  a 
grant  of  land  at  St.  Mary's  Hay.      He  later  re- 


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moved  to  (iagetown,  N.  H.,  and  lived  to  an  ad- 
vanced age.  Colonel  Thomas  (lilhert,  who 
was  the  great-grandfather  f)f  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  married  Mary  Godfrey.  lie  had  three 
sons  and  three  daughters.  One  of  the  latter, 
Deborah,  married  .Samuel  Scovil,  of  Connecti- 
cut, and  she  died  in  1S39.  The  sons  were 
Major  Thomas,  I'ert-z,  and  Bradford.  Maior 
Thomas  Gilbert,  who  lived  in  .Sunbur\' County, 
and  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-three,  married  a 
Miss  Tisdale.  llis  son,  Thomas  NaMianiel, 
had  several  children,  one  of  whom,  Humphrey, 
went  to  Dorchester,  N.  H.  I'erez  Gili)ert,  who 
resided  at  the  iinniestead  in  Gagetown,  had  one 
son,  Thomas,  fourth,  who  was  a  member  of  the 
Assembly  and  the  legislative  Council. 
Thomas,  fourth,  had  a  son,  Samuel  Henry 
Gilbert,  who  was  also  a  member  of  the  Assem- 
bly. Samuel  Henry  had  two  sons,  one  of 
whom  died  young,  ami  the  other  went  to  Mich- 
igan. 

Bradford  Gilbert,  George  G.  tiilbert's  grand- 
father, was  born  in  Massacluisetts,  A|iril  27, 
1746.  He  was  an  early  settler  in  St.  John, 
where  he  carried  on  mercantile  l)usiness  as  a 
member  of  the  lirm  of  Giliieit  &  llaiiford,  ami 
was  a  member  of  the  ,\ssembl\'  in  1796.  He 
died  January  16,  18(4.  Ills  first  wife,  whom 
he  married  jirevious  to  settling  in  New  Bruns- 
wick, was  Mary  Tisdale,  who  died  May  23, 
1792.  The  children  of  that  union  were  Henry 
and  Thomas.  Hradldrd  (iijljert  married  for 
his  second  wife  Ann  Waters,  who  bore  him 
two  sons:  William  James,  who  was  born  in 
1794,  and  died  November  15,  1S63;  and 
George  Godfrey,  first,  born  August  17,  1797. 


Henry  Gilbert,  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  at  the 
age  of  fifteen,  and,  becoming  a  prosperous  mer- 
chant, lie  continued  in  business  until  1847, 
when  he  retired.  He  died  July  ii,  1S69. 
Henry  Gilbert  married  \\\\/.:\  Simonds,  y<nmg- 
est  daughter  of  James  .Simonds.  .She  was  born 
ir.  1792,  and  died  on  Jul\-  iS,  1.S54,  having 
been  the  mother  of  seven  childien,  namely: 
Bradford  Simonds,  born  Ajiril  [2,  1S14,  who 
was  a  merchant  in  this  city,  and  died  in  1S72; 
Sophia,  born  January  16,  18 16,  who  married 
the  Rev.  Cannon  .Scovil;  Henry,  born  I'ebru- 
ary  22,  181S,  who  married  Lucy  A.  Caldwell, 
and  resides  in  Hampton,  Kings  County,  N.Ji  ; 
Thomas,  born  July  31,  1820;  James  S. ,  born 
in  April,  1822;  Geor;;e  G.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  and  IClizabeth,  widow  of  Henry  W. 
Wilson.  Bradford  S.  (iilbert  married  Ann 
Hanford,  and  had  one  daughter,  I'lliza 
.Simonds. 

[.Sketches  of  Thomas  and  James  S.  Gilbert 
will  be  fouiul  elsewhere  in  tjie  Rr:\ii:w.] 

George  Godfrey  Gilbert  received  his  Bach- 
elor's degree  at  Kirg's  College,  l'"redcricton, 
and  that  of  Bachelor  of  I, aw  at  Harvard  Uni- 
versity, from  whicii  he  gra(hiated  in  1848. 
Commencing  the  |)ractice  of  law  in  July  of 
that  year,  he  was  later  appointed  Queen's 
Counsel,  and  has  long  enjoyed  distinction  in 
the  legal  profession  of  this  Province. 

In  185S  he  was  joined  in  maniage  with 
.Sarah,  daughter  of  William  Hammond,  for- 
merly a  merchant  of  this  city.  IMr.  George 
G.  Gilbert's  children  are:  lulith  I-;.;  Mabel 
S.  ;    Hemy;    Gecnge,    an   attorney    residing   in 


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li;illuiist,     N.H.  ;    l-'lipii'iuc;    and    WalkT   Cil 
belt,      llcniy  ami  Walter  are  enyaj^cil  in  mer- 
cantile business  at  Rothsay,  Kinj,'s  County. 


:OIIN  A.  LIND.SAV,  of  tbe  lirni  of 
J.  A.  &  K.  J.  Lindsay,  dealers  in  haid- 
w.ire  at  Wood.stock,  N.H.,  was  born  in 
that  town,  January  26,  l<S5i,  a  .son  of  tbe  lion. 
William  Lindsay  and  the  descendant  of  a  fam- 
ily lonj;'  prominent  in  the  annals  of  Scotland. 

Durinj;  the  rei^n  of  Robert  II.  of  Scotland, 
.\.i).  I  371,  one  Sir  Alexander  Lindsay  attacked 
and  put  to  the  sword  an  I']nt;lisb  shi|)"s  crew 
that  had  made  a  landin;,^  in  Scotland  above 
Oueen's  l'"erry.  In  the  reii;n  of  Robert  111., 
1390,  Sir  David  Lindsay,  of  (ileiiesk,  was 
wounded  in  an  enf,'af;ement  ai^ainst  Duncan 
Stewart,  son  of  Wolf,  of  Hadenoch,  who  was 
brother  of  the  kini;-.  He  challentfed  Lord 
Wells,  of  England,  and  defeated  him,  but  gen- 
erously gave  him  his  life.  In  this  reign  Sir 
William  Lindsay,  of  Rossie,  also  appeared  on 
the  scene  of  action.  About  the  middle  of  the 
thirteenth  century  there  was  a  famous  Alex- 
ander Lindsay,  son  of  the  I'^arl  of  Crawford 
and  Chief  Justice  of  Scotland,  a  man  of  fero- 
cious habits  and  great  ambition.  l'"rom  tiie 
length  and  bushlness  of  his  beard  b.e  was 
called  the  "Tiger"  and  "]'",arl  iieardy. " 
Upon  the  death  of  his  father  he  succeeded  to 
the  earldom  of  C'rawford.  Having  joined  the 
Larl  of  Ross  in  rebellion  against  James  II., 
he  was  defeated  b)-  the  I'^ail  of  Huntley  near 
Drcchiii.  His  estate  was  confiscated  by  the 
crown,    and    his    title    withdrawn,    he    having 


been  atlainted;  but  bnlli  were  restored  him 
just  befcne  his  death.  John  Lindsay,  his 
brother,  fell  at  the  battle  of  Urerhin. 

Da\id  Lindsay,  ICarl  of  Crawford,  in  the 
reign  of  Janies  II!.,  .\.i).  14^)0,  was  sometimes 
st\U'd  by  historians  Larl  of  Lindsay,  Provost 
of  Linchden.  In  this  reign  old  Lord  Lindsay, 
of  the  Hyers,  commanded  a  regular  force  of 
three  thousand  foot  and  one  thousand  horse, 
and  piesented  a  magniruent  war  steed  to  tlu' 
king.  Another  Lord  Lindsa)',  of  the  IJyers, 
remonstrated  with  James  I\'.  at  I'Modden 
against  |)ermitting  Lord  Swesey  to  cii.ss  the 
Till.  In  the  reign  of  James  Y.,  Sir  David 
Lindsa)-,  of  the  Mount,  "the  bold  and  intrepid 
Lindsay,"  a  |)oet,  went  as  one  of  an  end)assy 
to  Urussels,  to  make  a  conimercial  treaty  for 
one  hundred  years  between  .Scotl;nid  and  the 
Netherlands.  In  the  same  reign  tin  j  ur- 
ished  an  Alexander  Lindsay,  a  skilful  pilot 
and  hydi'ograplu'i',  whose  observations  and 
charts  remain  until  this  day.  In  the  reign  of 
the  unfortunate  Mary,  David  Linilsay,  master 
of  Crawford,  eldest  son  of  the  Km]  of  Craw- 
ford, celebrated  the  festivities  of  his  marriage 
with  the  daughter  of  Cardinal  Heaton  with 
great  magnificence.  During  this  reign  the 
venerable  Lord  Lindsay  supported  the  Refor- 
mation; and  his  successor,  the  I'",arl  of  Lind- 
say, assisted  in  the  taking  off  of  Ri/./io.  He 
was  afterward  pardoned,  anil  made  quite  a 
figure  during  the  remainder  of  that  reign.  It 
wa.s  to  this  nobleman,  so  devoted  to  .Scotland, 
that  Mar\%  who  hated  him  for  bis  I'rotestaiit- 
isni  and  ]iatriot ism,  said,  when  contrasting 
him   with    Rulhven,    the  inugh   and   outs]!okeii 


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patriot  (lioth  were  in  the  rnyal  jircscnce), 
"Vou,  my  Lord  of  Lindsay,  tiie  smoother, 
tli(iiigi\  deeper,  villain!"  In  tiu'  rei^n  of 
(Jneen  l';]i/.al)eth,  Janu's  Lindsay,  yonn^jer  son 
of  the  I'.arl  of  Crawfoid,  wenl  In  inland  with 
liis  re;;iineMt,  and  tlu're  died.  lie  was  tlie 
founder  of  the  Irish  house  of  that  name,  lie 
had  several  sons,  one  of  whom,  Thomas,  was  a 
larj^e  tenant  farmer  in  County  l''ermanaj,di. 
Ireland,  and  whose  grandson,  Alexander  Lind- 
.say,  was  the  grandfather  of  John  A.  Lindsay, 
the  special  subject  of  this  sketch. 

AIe.\amler  Lindsay  was  horn  in  t'ounty 
l-"ermanayh.  Ireland,  June  5,  17N1,  and  in 
1820  emigrated  to  America.  l-'or  a  few  years 
he  lived  in  Hath,  Me.,  where  he  had  the 
charge  of  loailing  ships.  C'oniin),^  from  there 
to  New  Hrunswick,  he  settled  in  that  jiart  of 
the  parish  of  Wakelicld  that  is  called  Lindsay 
in  honor  of  his  family,  and  there  remained 
until  his  dealli  in  1.S7S,  at  the  \enerahle  aj;e 
of  ninety-seven  years.  His  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Llizaheth  1  letherinj;ton, 
died,  aged  sixty-five  "years,  in  I<S'5<J,  leaving  a 
large  family  of  children. 

The  Hon.  William  Lindsay  was  born  Au- 
gust 3,  1S13,  in  County  l-"ermanagh,  Ireland. 
He  served  an  apprenticeship  at  tlie  trade  of  a 
saddler  and  harness  inakei,  and  in  1)^35  began 
following  his  trade  in  Woodstock.  In  1.S37 
he  o|)ened  a  saddler's  shoii,  and  to  his  stock  of 
leather  goods  subsecpiently  added  a  line  of 
hardware.  In  the  course  of  a  few  3ears  he 
closed  (Hit  the  harness  de])artment  of  his  store, 
but  continued  the  hardware  trade  until  1.S9J, 
when  he  retired  from  active  j)ursuits.      A  man 


of  ability,  he  was  a  leader  in  the  Liberal  Con- 
servative |)arty.  He  .sat  in  the  first  County 
Council  of  Carleton  County,  1S5J,  and  was  for 
twenty-one  \ears  a  n)end)er  of  the  I'rovincial 
I'ailiament,  1.S61  iSSj,  serving  iluring  the 
time  in  both  branches  of  the  House.  He  was 
at  one  time  .Surveyor-general,  and  was  likewise 
a  mendier  of  the  Town  Council.  He  married 
Harriet  N.,  ilaughler  of  .Stephen  I'arsons,  of 
Woodstock,  N.  H.  Of  their  twelve  cliildren 
four  survive:  .\le\andcr  (I.,  of  Highlands, 
Carleton  C!oiuity ;  John  A.;  Robert  J.;  and 
Alice,  wife  of  Henry  Wilkinson,  of  Hloom- 
licld,  N.  H.  Hoth  parents  were  members  of 
the  Methodist  churcli,  and  the  father  was  a 
mend)er  of  the  (Jiiartcrly  Hoard. 

John  A.  Lindsay  was  reaied  and  etlucatcd  in 
Woodstock.  When  twenty-three  years  of  age 
he  went  to  the  North-west  Territories  via 
Winnipeg,  where  he  served  six  years  on  the 
North-west  .Mounted  INdice.  Returning  to 
Woodstock  in  1S79,  he  entered  bis  fatlier's 
store;  and  in  i.Sijj.  when  his  falhei  retired,  lie 
and  his  brother,  Robert  J.  Lindsay,  took  the 
entire  business,  which  has  since  been  most 
successfully  managed  under  the  piescnt  iirm 
name  of  J.  A.  &  R.  J.  Lind.say.  Mr.  Lind- 
sav  is  a  Conservative  in  politiis;  :ind  he  takes 
an  active  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the  tr^vn, 
county,  and  iirovince.      II  ,1   meiriliei    >.l 


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secretary  since  iSyo.  lie  is  also  connected 
with  the  ()ranj{e  Association,  heinjj  a  nienilier 
ol  the  Grand,  Connty,  Koyal  Scarlet  and  I'ri- 
maty  Lodj^es.  lie  is  a  nieniber  of  both  the 
Methodist  cinnch  and  of  tiie  (juarterly  Hoard. 

Mr.  Lind.say  married  Cedelia  A.,  daiij^hter 
of  Daniel  Jones,  of  llod^d.m,  Me.  ;  and  they 
have  one  som,  John  11.   Lindsay. 


'.\KIL  MROTlil'kS,  of  the  City 
^}  Market,  constitute  one  of  the  best 
known  and  most  re'iable  business 
firms  in  St.  John.  The  iiartners  are  John  and 
Daniel  J.  O'Neil,  sons  of  James  and  Johannali 
(( )'Sullivan)  O'Neil.  John  was  horn  in  Ire- 
land in  1846,  and  Daniel  in  .St.  Joiin  in  1K54. 
lames  O'Neil  and  his  wife  were  natives  of 
t'ounty  Cork,  Ireland,  and  came  to  this  coun- 
try in  I S49.  'I'hey  reared  six  chiklren, 
namely  :  Patrick,  'vho  dieil  at  the  a^e  of  thirty- 
five  years;  Matthew,  who  is  now  retireil  from 
business  and  resides  in  St.  Jolm  ;  Mary,  who 
is  the  wife  f)f  James  Casey,  i>(  London,  Ln^;- 
land ;  Catherine,  who  is  the  wife  of  I'eter 
Clark,  of  Hoston,  Mass.;  Jolm;  anil  Daniel  J. 
The  father  was  a  stone-mason,  and  worked  at 
his  trade  in  St.  John.  In  1.S54  he  was  at- 
tacked with  cholera,  which  terminated  fatally. 
'I'he  motiuM-  died  in  1M7?,  at  the  a^v  of  tifty- 
eight. 

JdMN  O'Nr.ii.  was  three  years  old  when  his 
parents  settled  in  St.  Jolin.  lie  was  educatetl 
in  the  i)ublic  schools,  and  after  leavinj;' .school 
he  entered   the  emidoy   of  James   Driscoll   as 


clerk  in  a  grocery,  and  remained  llieri'  until  he 
became  associated  with  his  brothers.  'I'liu 
business  of  O'Neil  Hrotbers  was  established  in 
1868  by  Patrick  O'Neil;  and  at  his  death,  in 
1877,  it  came  under  the  management  of  his 
three  brothers,  Matthew,  John,  and  Daniel. 
In  1890  Matthew  retired,  an<l  since  then  the 
present  partners  have  carried  it  on.  'I'he 
house  is  one  of  the  oldest  of  its  kind  in  the 
vicinity,  and  through  all  the  jears  since  its 
organization  it  has  boriie  an  unimpeachable 
record  for  fair  dealing  and  promptness.  Mr. 
John  ()'Neil  was  married  in  iS7r)  to  Mary 
Hayes,  daughter  of  James  Haves,  of  this  city. 
One  child  bom  of  this  union  died  in  infauey. 
.Mrs.  Mary  II.  ONeil  died  in  1877.  Mr. 
O'Neil  was  again  married  in  ( )ctober,  1879, 
his  bride  being  Catherine,  tlaughter  of  Law- 
rence .Metiill,  a  native  of  .St.  Jolm.  ( )f  this 
union  eight  children  lKi\e  liei'ii  born;  namely, 
Henry  J.,  Arthur  I'.,  John  h". ,  J.unes  II., 
(ierald,  l'".rnest,  blorenci',  and  Catherine. 
Mr.  John  (I'Xeil  is  a  nn'inber  of  the  I.  L.  and 
H.  Societ)'.  He  has  been  lor  some  timi'  a 
Justice  of  the  Peace. 

Dami  I  <  )'Ni.ii.  graduated  from  the  Catholic 
High  .School  in  .St.  John  under  Profes.sor 
Andiison  in  1870.  He  began  his  working 
life  in  Jiis  brother's  st(ne,  and  has  since  contin- 
ueil  in  the  business  as  above  stated.  He  was 
married  in  1S7S  to  Plllcn  Clarke,  daughter  of 
Captain  John  Clarke.  .She  was  horn  in  (ireen 
Castle,  Newry,  lieland,  and  came  to  this  coun- 
try when  three  years  of  age.  Of  this  marriage 
eight  children  have  been  horn;   namely,  James 


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("lark,  Jolm  Josepli,  Daniel  Rny,  Matthew 
l.oiiis,  .Margaret,  Charles  I'atriek,  Kate  F. , 
ami  l'",vel\n.  ICxcejit  Margaret,  who  died  at 
tile  age  cif  thirteeii,  all  are  living.  Mr.  Daniel 
J.  O'Neil  is  a  niemher  of  llie  I.  I..  ,ind  ]?.  So- 
ciety, and  of  the  (".   M.   li.  A. 


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well-known 
r  .St.  John, 
N.H.,  was  horn  on  November  y,  18^3, 
son  of  James  and  Rachel  (iriscom  (Murray) 
McMillan.  He  is  a  grandson  of  John  Mc- 
Millan first,  who  was  horn  in  Hallyniena, 
near  Uelfast,  Ireland,  of  Scotch  parentage, 
and  who  came  to  St.  John  in  1822  and  estab- 
lished the  business  which  is  still  continued 
under  the  firm  name  of  J.  &  A.  McMillan. 
The  first  John  McMillan,  who  died  on  l<"ebru- 
ary  5,  i<S47.  at  the  age  of  eiglity-six,  had  by 
a  second  marriage  four  sons:  David,  who  died 
in  1846;  James,  above  named,  who  died  h'eb- 
ruary  17,  iiS.ST);  llenrv,  who  studied  law  and 
subsequently  went  to  the  Ivist  Indies,  date  of 
death  not  known;  and  Alexander,  who  died  in 
1849. 

The  business  establislied  by  the  original 
John  McMillan  was  conducted  bv  biin  until 
his  retirement  in  1S41.  Ilis  son  David  suc- 
ceeded to  the  business,  and  carried  it  on  until 
1845,  when  it  jiassed  o  the  hands  of  James 
and  .Alexander,  who  conducted  it  under  the 
style  of  J.  S:  .\.  McMillan.  Ge<u-ge  \V. 
Whitney  \'as  adniitted  to  partnership  in  1S52, 
the  old  firm  name  of  J.  &  A.  ""TcMillan  being 
retained.      A  few  years  after  th.e  business  was 


started  a  bookbindery  was  added,  and  later,  in 
1845,  a  printing  office.  John  MeiVIillan,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  'las  been  connected 
with  Ihe  business  since  May,  1866.  As  pub- 
lishers, booksellers,  and  stationers,  the  firm 
of  J.  &  A.  McMillan  have  large  trade,  both 
wholesale  and  retail. 

Mr.  McMill.in  was  married  on  .April  14, 
1862,  to  Dora  Jack,  the  second  daughter  of 
the  late  Adam  Jack.  Of  this  uni.n  the  fol- 
lowing-named eight  children  have  been  born: 
Dora,  now  deceased;  .Susan  R.  ;  James; 
Florence  Murray;  Rachael  Grace;  ^Mexander; 
Mary  Lawrence;  and  Louisa  Marjorie.  Mr. 
McMillan  is  Registrar  of  Probate  of  .St.  John 
City  and  County,  having  been  ajipointed  De- 
cember 22,   1894. 


R1:D1:RIC  C.  COiAVFLL,  a  leading 
s  confectioner  of  .St.  John,  vice-president 
of  the  1'".  C.  Colwell  Candy  Company, 
Limited,  was  horn  in  Jeniseg,  (Jueens  County, 
X.  15.,  August  19,  i85f),  son  (,f  Jose|)h  li.  D. 
and  I'JTima  (Hatfield)  Colwell. 

lie  is  a  great-grandson  of  Lieutenant  John 
Colwell,  a  native  of  .Scotland,  who,  going  to 
Ireland,  there  joined  the  Hrilish  army  for  ser- 
vice in  .America  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 
During  the  jirogress  of  that  struggle  Lieuten- 
ant Colwell  was  wounded  in  the  forehead  by  a 
musket  l)all,  which  lodged  in  his  'lead  M'-.d 
could  not  be  extracted.  A  sihertube  or  ])late 
was  inserted  in  the  wound  by  the  surgeons  in 
such  p.  iv.anner  that  the  wound  was  invisible, 
and  he  carried  it  to  the  end   of  his  days.      lie 


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came  to  New  Brunswick  wiil.  the  Loyalists  in 
1783  and  settled  on  the  west  srle  of  St.  John 
River,  at  the  locality  now  known  as  Cam- 
brid}?e,  Uueens  County,  or  Lower  Cambrid}];e. 
Lieutenant  Colwell  was  twice  niariied.  liis 
first  wife  was  in  maidenhood  Miss  Hannah 
Hrittian.  I'or  his  second  wife  (^reat-f;rand- 
inother  of  liie  subject  of  this  sketch)  he  mar- 
ried Mrs.  Tamar  Mil'er,  a  widow,  whose 
maiden  name  was  llatiield.  Their  children 
were:  John  and  James,  twins;  William, 
grandfather  of  Frederic  C.  Colwell;  Char- 
lotte; and  Nellie. 

John  Colwell,  Jr.,  tuairied  a  Miss  I'eters, 
by  whom  he  had  tliirteen  children;  nameh', 
Hannah,  Charlotte,  Tamar,  William,  John 
(third),  (jcorgc,  .Susan,  .\melia,  Julia, 
Charles,  Frances,  Albert,  and  lielle.  James 
Colwell  was  never  married.  Charlotte  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  YounJ,^  and  Nellie  a  .Mr.  Oakly. 
William,  the  third  son  of  Lieutenant  Colwell 
by  his  wife  Tamar,  married  first  Nancy  Dyke- 
man,  who  bore  him  ten  children  -  Jacoi), 
Charlotte,  John,  J. ones,  Joscpii  II.  1)., 
(ieori^e,  Charles.  Moses,  I'Jioch,  Gilbert. 
William  Colwell  liveil  to  the  advanceil  age  of 
iiinety-fou:  years.  His  brother  John  lived  to 
be  seventy-nine,  aiul  James  to  be  eighty  years 
of  age. 

Jo.seph  H.  1).  Colwell  was  born  in  Jem.seg, 
(Jueens  County,  N. !!.,  in  181.S.  After  reach- 
ing m  iiihood  he  followed  farming  there  for 
soine'.ime.  In  1S41  he  married  Lmma  Hat- 
field, .)f  Helle  Isle  May,  Kings  County,  a 
daughlvr  of  Isaac  Hatfield,  who  was  a  Justice* 
of  tlie  I'eace  ami  an  extensive  farmer.      About 


i86p.  Mr.  Colwell  removed  with  his  family  to 
St.  John,  where  he  purchased  a  piece  of  land 
on  Lxmouth  .Street  and  built  a  nice  double 
house.  He  ran  a  line  of  'buses  from  Market 
Scpiare  to  Indian  Town,  so  called  at  that  time, 
but  now  the  North  I'jid.  This  enterprise 
proved  very  successful,  anil  lie  was  doing  well 
when,  in  1865,  he  contracted  typhoid  fever 
and  died  within  si.x  weeks,  leaving  his  wife 
with  four  helpless  children,  one  an  infant  of 
nine  months. 

Frederic  C.  Colwell  was  hardly  six  years 
(dd  when  thus  deprived  of  his  father.  At  the 
early  age  of  nine,  a  j*"  iod  of  life  when  the 
time  of  most  boys  is  divided  between  the  ac- 
<|uisition  of  knowledge  and  indulgence  in  the 
sports  of  ehiUlhood,  he  began  to  contribute 
toward  his  own  su]iport,  obtaining  employ- 
ment as  parcel  boy  in  a  grocery  house.  His 
education  was  thus  necessarily  1  imited :  but  he 
made  the  best  of  his  oppo  cunities  in  that  di- 
rection, attending  night  school  and  subse- 
cpiently  advancing  in  learning  by  means  of 
home  stud)-.  After  remaining  iov  three  years 
in  the  grocery  house  he  entered  the  employ 
of  C.  &  I'].  I'A'erett,  hatters  and  furriers,  and 
was  with  them  for  thirteen  years.  In  1886  he 
left  them  and  engaged  as  travelling  salesman 
tor  J.  R.  Woodlnirn  &  Co.,  confectioners.  A 
few  years  later,  in  i8yo  or  1891,  he  formed  a 
liartnership  with  T.  I-".  White,  with  whom  he 
carried  on  a  successful  business,  umler  the 
linn  name  of  White,  Cidwell  iS:  Co.,  for  four 
years.  At  the  eiul  of  that  time  the  connec- 
tion was  dissolved,  Mr.  White  buying  out 
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Company,  limitotl,  and  Mr.  Colwell  establish- 
ing the  business  of  I".  C.  Colwell  &  Co., 
wliicli  at  first  lie  condiutid  Inr  four  y'ars 
alone.  .Subseciuei.tl)'  the  tinn  beeame  a  joint 
stock  company,  under  the  name  ot  the  I'.  C. 
Colwell  Candy  Company,  Limited,  with  Mr. 
J.  R.  Woodburn  — whose  business  (J.  R. 
Woodburn  &  Co.)  had  been  purchased  by  them 
— ^  as  president,  Mr.  Colwell,  vice-presiilent, 
C.  H.  Smith,  treasurer,  and  C.  T.  IJailey,  sec- 
retary. Successful  from  the  start,  the  firm 
has  done  an  excellent  business  up  to  the  pres- 
ent tinu',  and  is  still  j^rowinj;.  Tlu'y  have 
just  put  in  a  newsiiam  plant  consisting  of 
the  latest  and  best  machinery.  They  give  em- 
ployment to  about  sixty  hands,  including  four 
travelling  salesmiMi. 

In  thus  mounting  by  degrees  and  by  means 
of  his  own  unaided  efforts  fron:  the  position  of 
a  fatherless  boy  of  nine  toiling  for  his  daily 
bread  to  that  of  a  prosperous  business  man, 
representing  an  important  imUistry  of  the 
leading  city  of  the  Province,  Mr.  Colwell  has 
demonstrated  that  he  possesses  an  ample  share 
of  the  essential  qualities  of  true  manhood  — 
energy,  honesty,  perseverance,  self-relia'ice, 
and  intelligence  —  without  which  success  in 
any  dep.irtment  of  human  er.deavor  is  scarcely 
to  be  gained.  He  is  fraternally  associated 
with  the  Knights  of  I'ythias,  and  is  I'ast 
Worthy  I'atriarch  el  .\li)ion  division.  lie  is 
also  a  member  of  the  granil  (iivisi(ni  of  the 
-Sons  of  remjjerance  of  New  Urunswick.  lie 
belongs  to  the  Cermain-.Street  Uaptist  Church. 

Mr.  Colwell  was  m,?rried  in  iSS.S  to  {'"ranees 
Marion     Wheeler,    a    native    of     I'"redericton, 


N.U.,  and  a  daughter  of  William  and  Sarah 
(Post)  Wheeler.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Colwell  are 
the  parents  of  six  children — ^  Harvey  Hall, 
Kenneth  Hatfield,  Ada  Marion,  I'Vances 
lulna,  ICmma  Hazel,  and  Ina  Winifred. 


I.FRl'.I)  .\.  MAHKK,  who  died  April 
22,  IiSqv),  was  a  well-known  manufact- 
urer and  builder  of  St.  John,  N.l^ 
He  was  born  in  the  jiarish  of  Kars,  Kings 
County,  \.l?. ,  April  14,  i<S'46,  son  of  Abra- 
ham I),  and  Rhoda  A.    (Humiihrey)  Mabee. 

Mr.  Mabee's  paternal  grandfather,  Jeremiah 
Mabee,  son  of  Jeremiah,  Sr. ,  and  Judith 
(Chadyne)  Mabee,  born  on  Long  Island,  N.  V. , 
January  1,  I /So,  came  to  New  Brunswick  with 
his  parents  and  his  bidther  William  on  May 
18,  17.S3.  William  ]\Iabee  subsecpiently  set- 
tled in  Kingston,  Out.  Ho  reared  a  large 
family.  Jeremiah  IMabee,  the  late  Alfred  A. 
Mabee's  grandfather,  was  both  a  farmer  ami 
a  mechanic.  He  constructed  the  first  sjiinning- 
wheel  made  in  Kingston,  Kings  t'ounty,  N.H., 
where  he  resided  until  his  death,  which  oc- 
(  nrred  in  bis  eighty-fifth  year.  He  was  well 
known  in  that  localitv  in  his  day,  and  for 
many  years  served  as  crier  of  the  couit.  He 
married  for  his  first  wife  .Sousana  Downey, 
who  became  the  mother  of  seven  sons  and 
seven  daughters.  I"or  his  second  wife  he  mar- 
ried a  .Mrs.   Pickett. 

Abraham  I).  Mabee,  f".her  of  Alfred  A., 
learneil  the  carpenter's  trade,  which  he  fol- 
lowed in  Kings  County  iluring  his  active  years, 
and  acipiired  a  high  lepntation  throughout  that 


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sctliim  as  a  rclialili.'  building  contraitur.  lie 
nianicd  lihoda  A.,  daughter  of  Josiph  Hiuii- 
pliioy,  <if  Ucllc  Isle,  and  had  a  family  of  tun 
children;  namely,  AHre<l  A.,  V.\i/.:\  J.,  Debo- 
rah, Jeremiah  I).,  Susanna,  Charles  C).,  An- 
netta,  Arthur  I),,  Lemuel,  and  another  child 
whodied  in  infancy.  I'-li/.aJ.,  who  is  no  longer 
living,  was  the  wife  of  H.  I-'rench.  Deborah  is 
the  wife  of  Whitfield  Lamb,  of  Kings  County. 
.Susanna  married  James  Rattie,  of  New  V'ork 
City.  Charles  O.  was  lost  at  sea,  at  the  age 
of  twenty-five  years,  while  o.i  a  voyage  from 
Norfolk  to  Australia.  Annetta,  now  deceased, 
was  the  wife  of  Dr.  John  MeCiivern.  Arthur 
D.  resides  in  New  ^'ork.  Lemuel  died  some 
years  since.  ^Xbraham  D.  Alahce  died  March 
24,  18.S0,  and  his  wife  died  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
four  years.  The\'  were  meniljcrs  of  the  haptist 
church. 

Alfied  A.  Alabee  began  to  go  to  sea  when 
fourteen  years  old,  and  led  a  seafaring  life  for 
several  years,  during  which  time  he  \isited  the 
West  Indies,  and  for  a  while  was  jiilot  on  the 
steamer  "City  of  St.  John  "  between  St.  John 
and  Boston.  Settling  in  St.  John  in  1868,  he 
turned  his  attention  to  the  building  business, 
and  during  the  next  thiity  years  erected  many 
dwelling-houses,  including  some  of  the  promi- 
nent residences  in  the  north  end  of  the  city. 
In  1 887  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
lumber. 

On  Ndvendier  nj,  1868,  Mr.  Mabee  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Chailotte  C.  Oram, 
of  St.  John,  daughter  of  John  C.  Oram  and  of 
luiglish  ancestry.  Mi-.  and  Mrs.  Mabee  have 
had  four  children,  two  of   whom   arc   living- 


Alfed  ().  and  Iza  lUll.  Alfred  O. ,  who  was 
in  business  with  his  fathei',  married  Ilattie  A. 
Linglcy,  of  Westfield,  N'.H.,  and  has  one 
child,  Allred  A. 

Mr.  Mabee  belonged  to  the  Inileiiendent 
Order  of  Odd  I'ellows,  the  l''()resters,  and  other 
organizations.  lie  attended  the  l-'ree  Will 
Haptist  church. 


111:  JAMKS  ROHICRT.SON  COM 
I'ANY,  Limited,  .St.  John,  N.15.— 
Hiisiness  opened  here  in  1877  by  Mr.  James 
Robertson,  Montreal,  under  the  management 
of  Mr.  A.  A.  McMichael,  the  present  vice- 
president  of  the  company  and  manager  of  the 
firm's  branch  at  Toronto.  The  business  has 
steadily  increased  since  its  inception,  atid  is 
to-day  the  l.irgest  manufacturing  concern  of 
its  kind  in  the  Maritime  Provinces. 

liesides  being  nianufacturers,  this  firm  are 
among  the  largest  im])orters  in  the  country  in 
metals  of  all  kinds.  The  celebrated  saws 
manufactured  by  the  company  are  used  in  all 
the  saw-niills  of  any  importance  in  the  coun- 
tr\-.  I'Atensivi'  altcraticms  have  been  made 
in  the  large  lead  and  color  works  at  the  coiner 
of  Charlotte  and  Sheffield  Streets,  where  the 
paints,  oils,  and  varnishes,  so  extensively 
used  in  the  Provinces,  are  maiuifacttired. 
Other  manufactures  are  lead-pipe  solder,  Hab- 
bitt  metal,  block  tin  pi|  '■,  shot,  lead  traps, 
putty,  and  so  forth. 

In  the  warcrooms,  corner  Mill  and  I'nion 
Streets,  where  a  large  stock  of  inetals,  |)lum- 
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are  constantly  kept,  the  firm  are  fitting  up  a 
lar^^e  plumbing  show-room,  where  these  ajjpli- 
ances  will  be  under  water  pressure.  All  the 
latest  sanitary  specialties  will  be  found 
here. 

Adjoininj,^  this  sam]ile-room  and  finished  in 
quarter-cut  oak  are  the  firm's  general  offices, 
which  are  .'aid  to  be  tlie  linest  in  the  city. 
This  branch  is  under  tlie  management  of  Mr. 
P.  McMichaeJ,  formerly  of  Toronto.  Other 
house's  of  the  company  are  situated  in  Toronto, 
Ont. ,  Winnipeg,  Manitoba,  Victoria,  B.C., 
Montreal,  (Jueiiec,  the  last  of  which  is  the 
head  office  of  the  company,  under  the  direct 
supervision  of  tiie  president,  Mr.  Janies 
Robertson. 

Although  the  .St.  John  imuse  is  tlie  young- 
est, it  bids  fair  to  cope  with  any  of  the  other 
branches  in  the  near  future,  under  tlie  present 
enterprising  and  energetic  management.  The 
reliability  of  the  firm,  coupled  witii  its  long 
business  e.xjierience,  makes  it  at  once  safe 
and  secure  fur  all  desiring  lo  open  business 
relations  in  the  several  lines  under  their 
control. 


r)\iC,K  WIl.l.l.AM  Ki;rciiuM, 
hardware  merchant.  St.  Jc'in,  \.  H., 
Canada,  was  bcnii  in  KIul^s  (.'ounty.  New 
Ikunswick,  on  January  16,  1S53,  being  the 
son  of  George  l-'orrester  Ketchuni  and  l']lida 
Ketchum. 

The  family  was  founded    in    \ew  lirunswick 
by     his     great-grand|)arents,      Jonathan     and  ! 


Hannah    ((jnintard)    Ketchum,    who    came    to 
this  Province  from   Newark,  N.J,,  with  other 


Loyalists  in  17S3,  and  settled  on  a  farm  at 
Lower  Norton,  Kings  County,  known  as 
\'aiikee  Shore.  Dying  when  well  advanced 
in  years,  they  were  buried  in  the  jiarish 
churchyard,  Kingston,  Kings  County.  Their 
children  were:  .Samuel,  Isaac,  Thomas,  Will- 
iam, James,  Charles,  Deborah,  and  another 
daughter.  Deborah  was  married  to  Thomas 
I''airweatlier  iiefore  coming  to  this  I'mviure, 
and  the  other  daughter  w  is  married  to  Captain 
Isaac  Ketchum.  Captain  Isaac  Ketchum  dieil 
l'"ebruary  15,  1835,  at  the  age  of  eighty-seven. 

William  Ketchum,  grandfather  of  George 
W.  Ketchum,  accompanied  his  parents  from 
Newark,  N.J.,  to  this  Province,  and  followed 
farming  as  his  life  occupation.  He  married 
.•\nn  Forrester,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons 
and  four  daughters;  namely,  Hannah  (J., 
Mary,  I'Vances,  Iktsy,  William  IL,  I-Mward 
Le  1?.,  and  George  Forrester.  William 
Ketchum  died  in  1S44,  twenty-seven  years 
after  the  death  of  his  wife,  which  occurred  on 
January  25,  1817.  The  mortal  remains  of 
botii  rest  in  the  Kingston    Parish   Churchyard. 

(ieorge  I'orrester  Ketchum,  the  father  of 
George  W.  KeLchum,  was  born  on  January  9, 
1S17.  When  old  enough  to  work,  lie  assisted 
his  father  at  farming,  but  subse(|uentl v  Ic.irned 
the  trade  of  carpenter,  which  was  his  principal 
occupation.  His  last  days  were  sjient  on  a 
farm  in  Kings  County,  about  two  miles  from 
the  (dd  homestead,  where  he  died  January  J3, 
i.S8j.  On  December  J9,  1850,  lie  niatried 
I'dida  .Snider,  who  was  born  in  Kings  County 
on  March  2,  1831.  They  had  eight  cliildren: 
['"ranees  Ann,  whu  was  married  to  Samuel   E. 


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Hoyt;  George  William,  the  subject  nf  tiiis 
sketch;  Mary  I'^lizabeth,  who  was  niariied  to 
William  I'rovan;  ICdward  Le  Haron,  who  dieil 
July  19,  1874;  Blanche  I'Mida  Melvina; 
Ciiarles  Ilcury,  who  resides  at  the  homestead; 
Frank  Forrester,  of  Greenwood,  Hritish  Co- 
lumbia; and  b'.dith  Seel)',  of  Boston,  Mass. 
Mrs.  I'.liila  Snider  Ketciiuni  died  on  October 
14,  1889,  ami  she  and  her  husband  were  i)uried 
at  Lower  Norton  Churcliyard,  Kings  County, 
N.B. 

Geori;e  W.  Ketclium  vvas  brought  up  and 
educated  in  Kings  County,  New  J^runswick. 
Leaving  the  home  farm  in  1871,  he  came  to 
St.  John,  worked  in  tiie  store  of  Robert  Fair 
at  I'airville  for  aliout  a  month,  and  tiien  was 
employed  in  Moore's  Nail  l'"aetory  for  two 
years.  In  1873  he  entered  the  employ  of 
L  &  I"".  Burpee  &  Co.,  dealers  in  iron  and 
heavy  iiardware,  remaining  with  them  and 
tJieir  successors,  I.  &  1*-.  R.  Burpee,  as  a 
clerk  until  1890,  in  which  year  he  was  ail- 
mitted  a  partner  in  tlie  l.itter  firm. 

On  October  i,  1879,  he  married  .Mary  l",li/- 
abeth  Fairweather,  a  native  of  .St.  John  and 
daughter  of  Thomas  h'airweather.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Ketchum  have  iiad  five  children,  namely: 
William  I'ercy,  who  died  August  8,  iSSo, 
aged  one  month  and  eight  days:  Harold 
Ouintard,  who  died  Seiitember  10,  1885,  aged 
one  year  and  five  months;  Mary  Louise,  born 
June  10,  1887;  Jean  Beatrice,  born  May  10, 
1.S89;  and  George  Francis,  who  died  May  15, 
1892,  aged  two  months  and  ten  days. 

George  W.  Ketchum  is  a  membei-  of  liie 
Church  of  England. 


l^JmVARD    BYRON    WINSLoW,    O.C, 

J a  prominent   lawyer  of   I'redericton, 

N.  B.,  was  born  in  Woodstock,  N.  B.,  in  April, 
1842,  being  the  youngest  son  of  John  Francis 
Wentworth  and  Jane  Caroline  (Rainsford) 
Winslow.  lie  is  a  direct  descendant  in  the 
seventh  generation  of  lulward  Winslow,  who 
came  to  America  in  1620  as  one  of  the  Pil- 
grims, and  was  the  third  Governor  of  the 
Plymouth  Colony.  lie  has  in  his  pos.session 
a  silver  tankaid  bearing  the  Winslow  crest 
beautifully  engraved  thereon,  which  his  iinmi- 
grant  progenitor  brought  with  him  in  the 
"Mayflower." 

Tiic  ancestral  line,  beginning  with  Governor 
ICdward  Winslow,  is  as  follows:  lulward,' 
Josiah,-"  Isaac,'  lidwanl,'  lulward,'^  John 
F.  W. ,''  Ivlward  Byron.'  (See  Davis's  "An- 
cient Landmarks  of  Plymouth.") 

h'dward  Winslow,  born  at  Droitwicli,  I'-ng- 
land.  in  1595,  married  for  his  second  wife,  in 
1^)21,  Mrs.  Susanna  h'uller  White,  widow  of 
William  White.  Their  son  Josiah,  a  native 
of  Plymouth,  was  (nivernor  of  the  colony  from 
1673  till  his  decease  in  1680.  He  married 
PeneloiJC,  daughter  of  Herbert  Pelham,  I'^sq. , 
and  resided  at  Marshfield,  Mas.s. 

Isaac  Winslow,  born  in  1670,  son  of  Gov- 
ernor Josiah,  was  married  on  June  26,  1700, 
"by  Mr.  Cotton  Mather,"  to  Sarah  Wensley, 
daughter  of  John  Wensley,  of  Boston.  Ed- 
ward, born  in  1714,  son  of  I.saac  and  Sarah 
Winslow,  married  in  1741  Hannah  Howland, 
daughter  ol  Thomas  Howland  and  widow  of 
William  Dyer.  A  Loyalist,  he  removed  with 
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Kdwanl,  Jr.,  born  in  174''),  also  a  Loyalist,  set- 
tled in  New  Hnniswick.  Ho  was  a  Jiulf^c  of 
the  Supremo  Court.  He  married  Mary 
Synionils,  and  had  a  large  family  of  children, 
among  them  Thomas  A.  C. ,  an  officer  in  the 
Teiitli  I''i)ot,  now  the  Lincolnshire  Regiment; 
Mary,  who  married  ICdward  W.  Miller;  Sarah, 
who  married  Lawrence  H.  Rainsford;  and  John 
1'.   W. ,  father  of  I'^dward  Hyron  Winslow. 

John  h'rancis  Wentworth  was  horn  in  1793, 
and  dieil  in  1859.  He  married  Jane  Caroline 
Rainsford,  and  they  had  the  foilowingnamed 
children:  Francis  L.,  now  living  at  Chatham, 
N.H. ,  manager  of  the  Hank  of  Montreal:  John 
C.  Winslow  (deceased),  lately  I'ostniaster  at 
Woodstock,  N.  H.  ;  lulward,  who  died  in  in- 
fancy; Mary,  now  of  Woodstock,  N.H. ,  un- 
married; Mrs.  I^li/aheth  Rainsford  Jacob, 
now  deceased;  Wentworth,  of  Woodstock, 
farmer;  'I".  Hradshaw,  of  l'"redericton,  secre- 
tary in  the  Department  of  Public  Works,  New 
J?runswick;  and  Iv  Hymn,  of  h'redericton,  bar- 
rister-at-law,  whose  name  heads  this  sketch 
and  whose  personal  history  is  outlined    below. 

Mr.  Winslow  obtained  his  education  in  the 
common  schools  at  Woodstock,  the  l<'rederic- 
ton  High  School,  and  the  high  school  at  St. 
Johns,  (Juebec.  Soon  after  he  began  the 
study  of  law  in  the  office  of  the  lion.  J.  J. 
l-'raser,  afterward  Judge  of  the  Supreme  (Huit 
of  New  Hrunswick  and  later  Goveru'ir  of  the 
Province.  In  1865  Mr.  Winslow  was  ad- 
mitted an  attorney,  and  very  soon  he  became 
a  partner  with  Mr.  Phaser,  the  association 
continuing  until  the  latter  was  jdaced  upon 
the    Supreme  Court   bench.      In   politics   Mr. 


Winslow  has  been  a  leading  Conservative, 
and  has  fretpiently  taken  an  .ictive  part  in  ad- 
vancing thj  interests  of  friends,  although 
never  seeking  office  himself.  He  is  a  mem- 
l)er  of  the  Church  of  luigland. 

Mr.  v..  Hyron  Winslow  was  married  in 
1871  to  lunma  li.  ( )rr.  They  have  eight 
children  now  living,  namely:  Wentworth 
Hyrou  Winslow,  manager  of  the  Colonial 
ISank,  Cidun.bus  Avenue,  New  York  City; 
Jasper  A.  Winslow,  a  clerk  in  the  Hank  of 
Hritish  North  America,  Montreal:  J.  J. 
I'Vaser  Winslow,  Lieutenant  in  the  Seventy- 
first  York  Infantry;  ICli/.abeth  Caroline  Wins- 
low; Marguerite  Winslow;  P'.  P",.  Winslow, 
clerk  in  the  Hank  of  Montreal  ;  R.  N.  Wins- 
low and    R.   II.  Winslow,  both   at  school. 


(RAMI'S  I).  DIXON,  a  highly  respected 
citi/.en  of  Sackville,  N.H.,  and  for 
many  years  Collector  of  Customs  at 
this  port,  was  born  in  Sackville,  N.H.,  Octo- 
ber 5,  1S19,  a  s(m  of  Ivlward  Dixon.  He 
comes  of  e.Nceilent  pjiglish  ancestry,  his  |)a- 
ternal  grandfather,  Charles  Dixon,  having 
been  born  March  8,  1730  (o'd  style),  at  Kir- 
leavington,  near  \'arm,  Ivist  Riding  of  \'ork- 
shire,  old  luigland. 

Charles  Dixon  learned  the  trade  of  ,1  hrick- 
l.iyer  from  his  father,  with  whom  he  worked 
until  he  was  nineteen  years  old,  and  then  fol- 
lowed his  trade  alone  for  ten  years.  He  sub- 
se(|uently  eng;iged  in  a  paper-mill  at  Hatton 
Rudby,  he  conducted  it  successfully  until 
177J,  when   he  eniigr.ited    with   his  family  to 


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New  niiinswicU.  Localiiij;  in  Sackville,  he 
invested  a  part  of  his  money  in  land,  buy- 
ing a  tiMit  ot  twenty-live  hundred  aeres,  on 
wiiicli  lie  earried  on  farming  and  merchan- 
dise to  some  extent  until  his  death  on  Au- 
gust 21,1817.  lie  became  prominent  in  pub- 
lie  allaiis,  and  in  1775  was  appointed  Jus- 
tice ot  the  Peace,  in  1778  wa  nade  Judge  of 
Common   I'lcas,   prio,  ,03'         '    member 

of    the    legislature,  v     >    aftt.      -d    Col- 

lector of  Customs  a  niunber  of  years.  On 
June  24,  17^)3,  he  married  Si  nina  Coates, 
who  died  June  13,  1826.  Jioth  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Methodist  church.  They  had 
eight  children,  ICdward  being  the  second  son. 

lidward  Dixon  was  born  September  20, 
177C),  in  Sackville,  N.H.,  where,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  one  year  spent  in  siiip-buildiiig,  he 
was  engaged  in  general  farming  throughout 
the  active  period  of  his  long  life  of  eighty-nve 
years.  His  wife,  Mary  Smith,  daughter  of 
John  Smith,  of  I'arisboro,  N..S.,  died  at  the 
age  of  seventy-four  years.  They  were  the 
parents  of  ten  chiUlren,  of  whom  but  two  are 
now  living:  James  I).,  the  sui)ject  of  this 
sketch;  and  William  Coates.  Doth  parents 
were  active  members  of  the  Methodist  church. 

James  1).  Dixon  was  educated  in  the  Sack- 
ville schools,  and  has  always  been  a  resident 
of  Sackville.  lie  has  followed  farming  more 
or  less  during  his  .utive  life,  and  is  now  liv- 
ing retired  on  a  porli(Ui  of  the  homestead 
which  his  grandfather  wrested  from  the  wilder- 
ness. In  1855  he  was  appointed  Collector  of 
Customs  for  the  |)ort  of  Sackville,  an  office 
which  he  filled  with  credit  to  himself   and   the 


government  for  twenty-six  consecutive  years, 
being  retired  on  a  pension  in  1881.  In  poli- 
tics he  is  a  Liberal. 

In  1844  Mr.  Dixon  married  liunice,  daugh- 
ter of  Cieorge  Ulack,  of  Dorchester,  N.  H. 
I  Their  union  has  been  brightened  by  the  birth 
of  six  children,  live  of  whom  ari'  still  living; 
namely,  Mary  !•;.,  Samuel  IC,  Alfred  H. , 
I'Vederick  A.,  and  Louisa  C.  Mary  K.  has 
been  twice  married,  and  is  now  the  widow  of 
the  late  Harmon  Humphrey,  of  Saikville. 
Her  lirst  husband,  Joseph  Archibald,  died 
leaving  her  with  two  sons,  one  of  whom,  Her- 
bert 1).  Archibald,  is  living.  .Samuel  K. 
married  Lnima  Carter,  of  Westmoreland,  and 
has  three  children,  namely:  Walter  I.,  who 
married  I'jnma  Truman;  James  L.  ;  and 
Clarence  K.  Alfred  H.  married  I'lorence 
I'reeman,  of  Amherst,  N.S.,  and  has  four 
children —  Leonard,  I'.rnest,  Clementina,  and 
Herbert.  b'rederick  A.  married  Margaret 
Patterson.  Louisa  C.  is  the  wife  of  the  Rev. 
W.  A.  Hlack,  ami  has  two  children  —  I';ila  L. 
and  Carrie  A.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dixon  are  active 
and  valued  members  of  the  Methodist  church. 


\'.  WILLIAM  CLHOPIIAS  G.W 
.NOR.  Horn  September  25,  1855,  in 
Chatham,  N.  H.,  of  Irisli-Ameiican 
parentage.  His  family  ancestors  on  both 
sides  belonged  to  the  early  history  of  the 
Province.  His  father,  Thomas  Gaynor,  a  na- 
tive of  Chatham,  was  educated  in  the  grammar 
school  of  that  town.  His  mother,  a  native  of 
Newcastle,     N.H. ,    whose    maiden    name    was 


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Catherine  Hucklcy,  was  educated  in  a  yoimj; 
ladies'  academy  conducted  at  Newcastle  by  a 
Mrs.  Merry.  His  first  acf|uaiiitaiu-e  with 
letters  was  made  in  a  private  scliool  taught  hy 
John  Hamilton,  of  Newcastle.  Thence  he 
was  transferred  to  the  mixed  school  conducteil 
by  the  Sisters  of  Charity  ot  Halifax  at  New- 
castle in  the  later  sixties.  At  tiie  af;e  of 
fourteen  he  represented  this  school  in  the 
public  competition  of  the  schools  of  Northum- 
berland County,  and  carried  off  several  prizes, 
He  tiien  attended  the  Classical  .School  at 
Chatham  known  as  St.  Michael's  Academy, 
where  he  pursued  his  classical  and  mathe- 
matical studies  under  teaciiers  of  exce[)tional 
ability.  I  lis  pliilosopiiical  and  metaphysical 
studies  there  bej;un  were  sul)se(|uently  com- 
pleted—  a  two  years'  course — in  tiie  Uni- 
versity of  St.  Jose|)ii.  Here  also  he  com- 
pleted his  theological  studies,  holding  at  the 
same  time  tile  chair  of  l-jiglish  literature  and 
rhetoric  and  the  [irofessorship  of  the  higher 
mathematics. 

Having  C(niipleted  his  preparatory  studies. 
he  was  ordained  priest  under  a  special  dispen- 
sation from  Rome,  in  his  twenty-third  year, 
on  the  4th  of  Augu.st,  1878,  by  the  Right 
Rev.  John  .Sweeney,  D.I).,  Bishop  of  .St. 
John,  in  the  c:itliedral  of  that  city.  The  first 
three  years  of  his  ministry  were  spent  in 
Carleton,  .St.  John,  and  at  Woodstock,  until 
ill  1881  he  was  apjiointed  to  a  newly  erected 
mission  at  Debec,  Carleton  County.  It  was 
during  his  residence  at  Debec  that  he  wrote 
the  ])amphlet,  "Papal  Infallibility,"  in  reply 
to  the  Rev.  John  M.   Davenport,  M.A.      After 


a  residence  ol  some  years  at  Debec,  his  health 
failing,  he  was  obliged  to  seek  a  warmer 
climate;  and  in  November,  |8,S7,  he  left  for 
t.'alifornia.  During  his  absence  in  the 
United  .States  he  devoted  himself  princi|)ally 
to  literary  work,  accejiting  in  1889  the  pro- 
fessorship of  I'.it^lisli  literature  in  the  Ver- 
mont Institute  at  lUirlington.  In  1890  he  re- 
turned to  New  Itriuiswick,  and  became  [iro- 
fessor  of  I'jiglish  rhetoric  and  literature  in 
the  University  of  .St.  Joseph.  Here  he  re- 
mained until  1^1)^1,  when  he  was  again  sent  to 
missionary  work,  this  time  at  .Sussex.  In 
1896  he  was  transferred  to  St.  John  to  the 
Church  of  St.  John  the  Haptist,  Hroad  Street, 
where  he  now  resides.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  New  Mrunswick  Historical  .Society,  a  con- 
tributor to  the  current  magazines,  a  lover  of 
outdoor  sports;  in  politics  a  Liberal  Conser- 
vative, and  in  sentiment  intensely  Canadian. 


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■^Jl'.NRN-  CANlMI'l.D  I'Rh'.STON, 
.M.D.,  for  many  years  a  leading  med- 
ical practitioner  of  St.  John,  N.  H., 
was  born  in  New  ^'ork  on  iMaicli  5,  1820. 
He  was  ;i  son  of  Zephaniah  I'reston,  a  promi- 
nent merchant  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  vice- 
presiilent  of  the  Connecticut  Mutual  Life  In- 
surance Comjiany.  The  I'reston  family  is  of 
Lnglish  origin,  and  has  been  prominent  since 
early  Colonial  times. 

The  Doctr)r  took  his  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Arts  from  Trinity  College  of  Hartford,  Conn., 
and  his  niedioal  degree  from  the  University  of 
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his  profession  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1844, 
but  subsequently  removed  tn  I'roviilence,  \i.\. 
I'larly  in  iiis  professional  career  he  became  in- 
terested in  homoeopathy,  made  a  study  of 
its  principles,  and  gradually  applied  them  to 
his  own  practice,  h'or  a  time  he  was  asso- 
ciate editor  of  the  Xortit  Aincriiaii  Joiinial  of 
lloiiucopatliy,  and  while  in  that  position  he 
was  called  to  St.  John  in  consultation  with 
Ur.  Peterson.  Subse(|uently,  in  185.S,  he  set- 
tled in  St.  John,  and  in  a  short  time  built  up 
a  ]arjj;e  and  lucrative  practice  among  the  lead- 
ing families  of  the  city.  He  was  prominent 
in  !^!psonie  circles  and  in  the  fratern:'  ,  ol 
Odd  Fellows,  lie  was  one  of  the  first  physi- 
cians hero  to  be  apjiointed  member  of  the  New 
Hrunswick  Medical  Council  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons. 

Dr.  Presto?,  was  married  on  October  i, 
1846,  to  Miss  Louise  (ireen,  a  native  of  New 
London,  Conn.,  and  a  descendant  of  .Samu^d 
Green,  of  Canioridge,  Mass.,  one  of  the  first 
printers  and  publishers  in  New  b'ngland. 
(See  I'^liot's  Indian  liiMe,  printed  b}'  .Sam- 
uel Green  and  Marmailuke  Johnson,  first  edi- 
tion, \(iCi'i,.)  Of  this  union  seven  children 
were  born.  One  of  these.  George  S. ,  died  in 
infancy.  The  six  living  are:  Henry  (}.,  a 
physician  of  lirooklyn,  .\.  N.  ;  William  C, 
who  is  a  photograiiher  in  Troy,  X.  \  :  Ivl- 
ward  A.,  the  well-known  physician  of  .St. 
John;  Alber  L..  wiio  is  an  insurance  agent  of 
Westerly,  R.I.;  Thomas  .S.,  who  is  a  mer- 
chant of  Cambridgi.'port,  Mass.  ;  and  .Annie 
Louisa,  wfi  )  is  principal  ol  :i  kinderg.irten  in 
Providence,  R.I.      Hr.  Henry  C.   Preston  died 


on    July   13,    1893.     His  wife,    wlio  survives 
him,  reside^  in  Providence,  R.T. 

Ivlward  A.  Preston,  M.I).,  was  born  in 
I'rovidence,  R.I.,  on  .September  7,  1854.  He 
was  only  four  years  old  when  his  parents  re- 
moved from  that  city  to  .St.  John,  where  his 
boyhood  days  wi;re  passed.  He  accjuired  his 
elementary  education  in  the  [lublic  schools  of 
.St.  John,  and  afterward  took  a  course  of  study 
at  an  academy  in  Hartford,  Conn.  His  medi- 
cal studies  were  pursued  for  several  years  with 
his  father  and  subsequently  in  Hrooklyn, 
N.\'.,  at  Long  Island  College,  where  on  July 
I,  1S79.  he  received  the  <legree  of  Doctor  Oi 
?  ' 'dicine.  for  a  year  he  practised  his  jiro- 
fession  in  that  city,  and  in  1880  came  to 
.St.  John,  where  he  has  since  resided.  He 
is  a  member  and  .Senior  Deacon  of  St.  John's 
Lodge  of  Masons,  No.  j,  and  member  of 
New  Hrunswick  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.  :  also  a 
member  of  Union  De  .Molay  1'  eceiitory. 
Knights  Templar;  also  District  Deputy  High 
Chief  Ranger  of  C.  O.  !•".  and  Chief  Ranger 
of  1.  O.  !''.  He  is  connected  with  several 
temperance  organizations. 

Dr.   I'.dward  A.  Preston  w;i     first  married  in 

lS7j,  and   of  this   union   three  children    were 

!  born:    ICdward  A.,  Jr.,  M.  Louise,  and  Jennie. 

I  The  first  named,  who  was  born    in    1S73,  is  in 

1  mercantile    business     in      New     \'ork.        M. 

Louise  was   born    in    1877,   and  Jennie    three 

years    later.      In    1 S90    Dr.     Preston    married 

.Saidee    M.    H<(wird,    of    .St.    John.      .She    has 

borne  him  one  child,  I'Morence,  who  was   born 

in    1892.      The    Doctor    is    a   member   of    the 

New     Mnwiswick     Medical     .Society,     and     of 


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RTliUR  l.i;SI,Ii-;  GOODWIN,  for 
nearly  twenty  years  a  prominent  busi- 
ness inrvH  ot  St.  John,  importer  of 
and  wholesale  dealer  in  fruit  and  produce, was 
horn  at  Hay  \'erte,  N.  H, ,  February  21,  1858, 
son  of  John  !•'.  and  Maf"y  (Harper)  (ioodwin. 
He  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Daniel  (iood- 
win, who  was  born  in  I'lymouth,  I'jiirland,  in 
1734,  an»l  emij^rated  to  Newburyport,  Mass., 
in  1754. 

Daniel  (ioodwin  joined  the  New  l"nL;lantl 
troops  that  wee  sent  under  the  command  of 
Colonel  John  Winslow  by  (iovernor  Shirley, 
of  Massachusetts,  to  aid  ("olonel  Moncton  in 
his  attack  on  i-'ort  Heau  Sejour  in  1755. 
After  the  surrender  of  Heau  Sejour,  l'"ort 
Gaspcrcaux,  nc  r  Hay  Verte,  also  surrendered. 
Daniel  (ioodwin  remained  in  the  army  twenty 
years.  lie  settled  in  Hay  Verte,  where  his 
death  occurred  in  iSj^  at  the  aLce  of  eighty- 
nine.  He  married  .Sarah  Hunt,  a  native  of 
Ireland,  and  had  eleven  sons  and  one  dauj^.i- 
ter.  Ten  ol  the  sons  were  soliliers,  and  two 
of  tlicm  fouf^ht  in  W^Tterloo.  While  Daniel 
Goodwin  was  with  bis  regiment  in  Nova 
.Scotia,  his  wife  and  children  lived  at  Jolicure, 
about  six  miles  froni  I'  t  Cumberland  (f(M-- 
mcrly  Heau  Sijouii.  'nuint;-  her  husband's 
absence  from  iiome  Mrs.  (ioodwin  discovered 
a  party  of  l'"rench  and  Indians  comiuLC  toward 
the  bouse,  and,  takini,'  he  children,  tlic  youuj;- 
cst  of  whom  was  an    infant,  t'eil  to  tlie  woods, 


wliere,  crouched  in  a  thicket,  r'-  saw  the  in- 
truders set  fire  to  tlie  house,  which  burned  to 
the  ground.  .She  and  her  children  afterward 
succeeded  in  reaching  the  fort  in  safety. 

The  great-grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  Jonathan  (ioodwin;  and  liis  grand- 
father was  Isaac  Goodwin,  a  native  of  Hay 
Verte,  who  married  Ann  I""awcett.  Isaac 
Goodwin  liri.d  a  familv  of  eleven  children, 
among  whom  were  b'.dward  (".,  Cyrus,  Mar- 
garet, I'ili/.abeth,  Charles,  Candine,  .Stephen, 
John  !•'.,  and  I-ileanor. 

John  I'".  Goodwin,  the  late  Arthur  Leslie 
(ioodwin's  father,  was  born  in  Hay  Verte  in 
iS^i.  He  lived  on  a  f.irm  ami  followed  agri- 
culture until  1871,  when  lie  came  to  .St.  John 
and  engaged  in  the  commission  business, 
which  be  carried  on  for  sorae  years.  He  is 
now  in  business  with  his  son.  His  wife, 
j  Marv.  v;hom  he  married  in  185.^.  was  a  daugh- 
ter  of  William  Harper  ,ind  a  gr.iud-ilaughter  of 
.Major  Christopher  Harper,  who  was  one  of 
the  first  settlers  of  .Sackville,  N.H.  John  1'. 
Goodwin  has  had  a  family  of  nine  eliildi'en; 
namely,  IKden,  Arthur  Leslie,  Harriet 
Harper,  I'^dward  A..  .Mice  Mary,  luuily 
Maud,  Joseph  Harper.  .Annie  Josephine,  and 
Ilattie  I'!li/,abeth.  Helen  (ioodwin  married 
for  her  first  husband  John  \V.  I.eighton,  by 
whom  she  bad  four  children.  i'"or  her  second 
husband  she  married  N.  W.  Smith,  of  Hoston ; 
and  of  this  union  tlure  is  one  son.  Harriet 
Harper  (ioodwin  died  .it  the  age  of  fourteen. 
I.  ,vard  Augustus  is  in  business  in  .St.  John. 
.Mice  Mary  is  the  wife  of  Robert  1).  Chirk. 
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fiiur  years.  Annie  Josephine  married  Ivlwin 
H.  Seely.  Hattie  I':ii/al)etli  died  at  llie  a^^e 
of  two  years.  Tiie  niotlier  died  .Marcli  26, 
1896. 

Artliur  Leslie  (ioodwin  spent  iiis  l)()yhood 
and  youtii  in  his  native  town.  Vytnn  eomini^ 
ti)  .St.  Jolin,  lie  entered  liis  tatlier's  store  as  a 
clerk,  and  later  was  in  the  employ  of  J.  W. 
I'otts  for  four  years.  In  1S79  he  established 
himself  in  the  wholesale  fruit  and  jiroduce 
business,  building  up  ;i  lartj,e  trade,  and  earry- 
ini;  it  on  successfully  until  his  deatli,  which 
occurred  Deceiuher  34,  i89(S.  He  possessed 
many  excellent  traits  of  character,  and  was 
iiii^hly  esteemed  by  all  who  knew  him.  lie 
was  interested  in  all  measures  favorable  to  the 
business  development  of  the  city,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Hoard  of  Trade.  Ite  belongetl 
to  the  Inilependent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 

On  April  23,  1889,  Mr.  Goodwin  was  imited 
in  marriage  wiiii  Mary  Maud  I'olley,  of 
VVelsford,  Queens  County,  Three  children 
were  born  of  this  union;  rimely,  .\rthur 
Leslie,  Horace  I'owler,  and  Walter  (ienr.ain. 

Mdward  A.  (ioodwin  was  bom  in  Hay  V"erte 
ill  1862,  and  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  .St.  John.  After  finishing  his 
stadies,  he  entered  the  em|)loy  of  the  .Singer 
.Sewing  Machine  Company,  with  whom  he  re- 
mained for  tnree  years.  In  1879  he  became 
associated  with  his  brother,  .Arthur  I..,  in  the 
wholesale  fruit  and  produce  busimss,  and 
upon  tlie  death  of  the  latter  took  the  manage- 
ment of  the  store.  ( )n  Noveiuber  2t,,  1S92, 
he  married  .Minnie  (!lark,  daughter  of  Alex- 
ander   K.  Clark,  of   .St.   John,  and    formerly  cjf 


Halifax,  N.S.  He  has  three  chikben  — 
Harold  K.,  May  Alice,  and  Wilhelniina  Maud. 
Mr.  lulward  A.  Goodwin  is  a  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias. 


-I.IAM  WALLACIC  HAY,  Mayor 
of  \\dodstock,  Carleton  County, 
X.  H.,  is  a  member  of  the  well-known  firm 
of  Hugh  Ha\-  &  .Son.  He  was  born  at 
Woodstock,  December  24,  1855,  the  eldest 
son  of  Hugh  Hay.  On  the  paternal  side 
he  is  of  Scotch  ancestry.  His  great-grand- 
father, James  Hay,  resitled  in  Hawick,  Ro.x- 
burglishire,  Scotland;  and  his  grandfather, 
John  ll.iy,  was  born  at  Hawick,  and  was  there 
trained  as  an  architect  and  mason.  VX'hile  yet 
a  young  man  John  Hay  came  to  .\ew  Hruns- 
wick.  After  living  for  a  time  at  Cumberland 
hi\\  lie  removcil  to  what  is  now  tlie  parish  of 
l-vichmond,  where  he  made  fainiing  his  prin- 
cipal occupation  for  many  years.  He  became 
greatly  interested  in  local  affairs,  and  at  the 
time  of  the  incorjiorat ion  of  the  count\-  of 
Carleton  was  appointed  one  of  the  first  Countv 
Councillors.  Hefore  leaving  .Scotland  lie 
tmited  with  the  l''i'e  Masons.  He  manieil  in 
(Jueens  Count),  New  Hrunswick,  .Marv,  tlaugh- 
ter  of  l^uncan  McLean,  of  Scotland. 

Hugh  Hay  was  born  at  Cumberland  Hay, 
(Jueens  County,  X.  H. ,  Novendjcr  24,  1828. 
He  was  educated  in  the  parish  of  Richmond, 
whither  his  jiarents  removed  when  he  was  two 
years  old.  He  worked  there  with  his  father  at 
fainiing  and  lumbering  until  of  age,  when  be 
started  in  business  for  himself  as   a   nianufaet- 


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uixT  i>f  IuhiIk'I'.  Ill  i>^35  lu'  I)cgan  liis  mer- 
cantile career  by  establishing  the  tiiin  nf 
which  he  is  still  at  the  head;  and  he  has  since 
carried  on  a  most  satisfactory  and  prosperous 
business,  heiiii;  at  the  present  time  the  longest 
established  merchant  in  \\'oodst(ick.  llecai- 
ries  a  fine  line  of  goods,  importing  directly 
from  the  manufacturers  in  the  old  country. 
lie  takes  a  deep  interest  in  local  matters,  and 
for  several  years  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Town  Council.  His  lii'st  wife,  Melissa. 
daughter  of  ICnoch  DeHeck,  of  Keswick,  X.H. , 
dieil  in  earh'  womanhood,  leaving  four  of  her 
seven  children,  nameh  :  I.ouisa,  wife  of  I,.  I', 
b'arris,  member  of  the  I'nA'incial  I'ailiamenl 
from  the  parish  of  White  Cove,  (Irand  I.aki', 
Oiieens  County;  Willian)  Wallace;  llugbli., 
a  physician  in  Chipman,  N.  H.  ;  and  Clarence, 
of  liutte,  Montana,  CS.  Hy  his  second  wife, 
Chiisliana,  daughter  of  Cajitain  William  Mc- 
Ken/ie,  of  Richmond,  N.  15.,  he  has  one  son, 
Charles  M.,  a  physician  in  I'hiladelphia,  I'a. 
He  attends  tiie  I'resbytcrian  church,  of  which 
he  was  one  of  the  trustees  for  tliirt\-  )eais,  and 
of  which  bis  wife  is  a  member. 

William  W.  Hay  received  a  practical  com- 
mon-school education,  and  suli-iipientlv  as- 
sisted in  his  father's  store  as  .1  ilerk  until 
ICS95,  when  he  was  admitted  into  paitni'rship, 
the  lirni  name  becoming  Hugh  liny  iv  Son. 
Mr.  llay  is  independent  in  politics.  i'or  a 
number  of  years  he  served  as  County  Coun- 
cilloi';  and  in  Jannaiy,  1M97,  he  was  elected 
Mayor  of  Woodstock  bv  aiclamat  ion,  an  oflice 
which  he  has  tilled  witii  credit  to  himself  and 
to  the  general    satisfaction   of   his   fellow-citi- 


zens, who  have  specially  apiireciatcd  the 
marked  imjirovement  in  the  public  highways 
during  his  t„rm  of  office,  I'raternally,  he  is  a 
member  of  Carleton   Lodge,   I.    ().   C).    F.  ;    of 

Meduetic    )•  ncanipnu'iil ;    and    of    Court , 

I.  ( ).  ]'".,  No.  C>~,2.  He  is  a  Jusiicc  of  the 
I'eace,  and  is  also  a  Coroner. 

Mr.  Hay  has  been  twice  man  ied.  Hislirst 
wife,  Sophia,  daughter  of  the  late  Judson 
Harris,  of  Cornwallis,  N.S. ,  died  April  9, 
1.S95.  .She  was  a  most  estimable  woman  and 
an  active  meinber  of  the  liap.tist  church.  She 
bore  him  five  children,  namely:  Frederick 
I.auchlan,  who  was  teller  in  the  Hank  of  Nova 
.Scotia  at  the  time  of  his  death,  in  Woodstock; 
Arthur  H.,  who  graduated  in  llie  class  of  1899 
in  Atadia  College,  and  w-oii  the  (lovernor's 
gold  medal  ;  William  C"arey  ;  liurpee  Mcl.eod  ; 
and  Cassie  L.  ()n  .September  2(),  1S97,  Mr. 
Hay  married  Mrs.  Henrietta  Fli/.ibeth  Marlev, 
daughter  of  Zebulon  Jones,  l'',sc|.,  of  Ciicen- 
wick.  Kings  County,  X.li.  Mr.  Ha\  attends 
the  I'resbyterian  church. 


loMAS  Wlirn:,  the  veteran  confec- 
tionei'  of  .St.  lohn,  president  of  the 
White  Candy  Compaiiw  i,S'(;5  i.S(j(_),  was  born 
near  Glasgow,  .Scotland,  ^^.ly  22,  1.S32.  His 
father  was  Leslie  White,  a  broker,  who  emi- 
grated with  his  family  to  New  ]5ruiiswiek  in 
1845,  and  in  the  following  \ear  returned  to 
.Scotland.  <  )n  bis  airi\al  in  this  Province, 
young  riiomas  White  went  to  l''rederictoii, 
where  lu'  was  employed  as  a  farm  assistant  for 
two  years;   and   then,   coming   to   .Si.   John,  he 


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worked  for  ("icor;;^  I'",.  I'V'nety  <>n  tlic  Daily 
yeivs  for  about  two  years  and  a  half.  After 
spciidinj,^  twelve  niontiis  in  his  native  land,  he 
went  to  the  United  States,  and,  Ineating  in 
Maklen,  Mass.,  resided  there  three  and  a  iialf 
years.  Returnini^  to  St.  John  in  1855,  he  en- 
tered the  ennfeitionerv  business  as  an  eni|)lnyee 
of  Ale.xander  Martin,  witii  wlioin  he  remained 
ten  years;  and  in  18(15  lie  establislied  himself 
in  the  same  line  of  trade  on  C'hipman  Hill. 
J'"our  years  later  he  removed  to  (iermain  Street, 
where  he  earried  on  business  until  his  store, 
in  conunon  with  all  others  in  that  loeality, 
was  swejit  away  in  the  tire  of  1X77,  eausinj; 
iiini  a  loss  of  five  thousand  dollars.  Durin;.; 
the  year  followint^  tiie  great  eontlagration  be 
earried  on  business  in  a  temjiorary  building 
which  he  erected  on  King  Sc|uare;  and,  after 
subse(|ucntly  occupying  a  store  on  L'nion 
Street  for  a  few  months,  he  secured  cpiarters  in 
the  I'rescott  lUiilding  on  Charlotte  Street, 
where  he  remained  five  years,  or  cnuil  remov- 
ing Im  the  present  location  of  the  business  on 
King  .Street.  ]'"or  man}  years  he  was  on'.'  of 
the  K'ading  confectionery  (K'alers  in  New 
J?runswicl<.  The  inanufactory,  which  was  for- 
merly carried  on  under  the  tirn\  name  of 
White,  ('aldwell  &  Co.,  was  incm  porated  in 
nSijG  as  tiie  White  Candy  Company,  the  cajjital 
stock  being  now  owned  b\'  Thomas  White  & 
Sons.  This  concern,  whicii  is  the  second 
laigest  of  its  kind  in  the  Maritime  l'r<ivinces, 
is  doing  a  profitable  busini'ss,  and  its  goods 
have  acquired  a  high  reputation.  In  1X99  Mr. 
Thomas  White  retired  from  the  cand\  business, 
and  the  concern  is  now  carried  on  by  his  two 


sons,  I-'rank  and  Leslie  White,  who  have  added 
to  their  store  a  first-class  restaurant. 

In  1S57  Mr.  White  married  Miss  Charlotte 
I^.  Armstrong,  daughter  of  tiie  late  John  Arm- 
strong, who  came  from  Iieland  to  St.  John 
when  she  was  an  infant.  ( )f  this  union  there 
were  nine  sons,  namely:  Thomas  V.,  manager 
of  the  White  Candy  Company ;  Leslie,  who  is 
in  the  store  with  his  father;  William,  su|)erin- 
tendent  of  the  factory ;  ]'"rank,  foreman  of  the 
above;  luhvin  I'inkerton,  who  died  in  1S77, 
aged  seven  years  and  si.\  months;  b'rederick 
Warren,  who  died  a  fi'W  weeks  later,  aged  four 
years  and  eight  nKJiiths;  llair\'  Duffel;  ]''re(l- 
erick  V..  ;  and  another  who  died  in  iidancy. 

Mr.  White  has  been  a  mend)er  of  Hibernian 
Lodge,  !•".  &  A.  M.,  fur  twenty-five  years;  has 
been  vice-president  ot  the  St.  .Andrew's  So- 
ciety, whii'h  he  joined  over  twentv  years  ago, 
and  also  belongs  to  the  ( Irder  of  Clan  Mt'- 
Kcn/.ie.      He  attends  the  .Methodist  chuicb. 


IIOMAS  I'.  WlIITi;,  manager  of  the 
gj|  White  Candy  Company,  St.  John,  was 
hoin  in  this  city.  May  9,  iN57>  son  of  Thnnias 
and  Charlotte  V..  (Armstrong)  White.  The 
father  is  well  known  in  St.  John  as  formeih' 
president  of  the  above  named  company.  An 
acc(nuit  of  his  early  business  life  will  be  found 
in  a  sketch  under  his  name  upon  another  i)age 
of   the   Ri.\n;\v. 

After  the  completion  of  his  education,  which 
was  acquired  in  the  ind)lic  schools  of  St.  John, 
Thomas  !•".  White  began  to  a.vsisl  his  father  in 
l.uisiness;  anil,  having  obtained  a  good   knowl- 


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(i|iciu-'(l  :i  store  in  l'"ic'(lcricton,  wiicic  he  re- 
nKiiiiod  two  years.  Sellini;  out  liis  l)iisiness  in 
tiiat  city,  ho  returned  to  St.  John,  and,  associ- 
ating himself  with  liis  hrotiicr  William,  opened 
a  wholesale  establishment.  .Some  time  later 
a  partnership  was  loinied  with  1"'.  C.  Caldwell; 
and,  purihasing  the  eonfectionery  factory  for- 
merly earrieil  on  by  J.  K.  Woodbury  &  Co.,  a 
successful  business  was  inaugurated  under  the 
style  of  White,  Caldwell  &  Co.,  with  Thomas 
!■".  White  as  manager.  This  enterprise  was 
soon  afterwnrtl  merged  into  the  White  Candy 
Comiiany,  with  William  Wheeler  as  president, 
'I'honias  ]'".  White  as  manager,  ami  William 
White  as  supeiintendent.  I'pon  the  retire- 
ment of  iMi'.  Wheeler  in  1S95,  Mr.  Thomas 
White,  the  veteran  confectioner,  was  elected 
jiresident.  The  cor|ii)ration  is  now  employing 
from  forty-fu-e  to  fifty  hands,  and  its  goods  are 
sold  throughout  the  lower  Provinces. 

In  1SS5  Mr.  White  was  joined  in  marriage 
with  Miss  Sarah  Cochran,  of  .St.  John.  They 
have  four  children  —  Thomas  Hamilton,  Henry 
Wilson,  Mcngaret  Armstrong,  and  Jean  Leslie. 

Mr.  White  was  officially  connected  with  St. 
Andrew's  Lodge,  1.  ( '.  ( ).  1'',,  now  extinct, 
and  has  occupied  the  principal  chairs  of  Pio- 
neer Lodge,  which  he  joined  in  iSjtj.  He 
also  belongs  to  the  Canadian  ()ider  of  I'dres- 
ters  and  the  ()iilei  of  Clan  .McLen/.ie. 


ILLl.XM     Al.l!i;Rr     LOCKll.Xkr. 
Collector  of  Customs  for  the  ]iort  of 
St.  John  and   e.\  .Mayni-  of   that   cil}',  was  born 


in  that  city  in  1S55,  son  of  George  A.  and 
Ann  (.Shaw)  Lockhart.  His  paternal  grand- 
father, Daniel  Lockhart,  who  was  of  Scotch 
descent,  was  a  native  of  Horton,  N.S.  He 
lived  to  be  about  eighty  years  old.  He  fol- 
lowed general  farming  during  his  active  years, 
and  served  as  .Magistrate. 

(ieorge  A.  Lockhart  was  born  in  Horton  in 
171^7.  He  was  reared  upon  a  farm  in  Nova 
Scotia,  and,  coming  to  St.  John  in  1827,  was 
engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  inv  the  rest  of 
his  life.  He  was  I'olice  ^Magistrate  a  number 
of  years,  and  he  represented  Queen's  Ward  in 
the  Hoard  of  Y\ldermen  many  terms.  ;\nn 
.Shaw  Lockhart,  his  wife,  was  a  daughter  of 
I'eter  .Shaw,  of  ]''almoulb,  N.S.  ller  ances- 
t(irs  weie  origii.ally  from  ^'(lrkshire,  b'.ngland, 
and  they  lived  in  Rhode  Island  before  their 
removal  to  No\a  Scotia.  She  became  the 
mother  of  seven  children,  namely:  two  who 
died  in  infamy;  Lydi.i  .\nn,  wlvi  married 
.Stephen  Thiirne,  i)i  Jiridgetown,  N.S.  and  is 
no  lunger  living;  Jane  C,  also  deceased,  who 
was  the  wiie  of  Hewitt  C.  C^annneyer,  of  New 
\'oi  k  City;  (Ieorge  A.,  who  died  single; 
William  A.,  the  subject  .if  this  sketcli;  Jessie 
.\.  .S.,  who  married  lirst  l-'erdinand  Cannneyer, 
and  after  his  death  married  Herbert  \'ail. 
Cicorge  A.  I.ockhait,  the  eldei',  was  a  niemlier 
of  the  Masonic  older  and  the  .Sons  of  Temjier- 
ance.  He  dieil  in  1S7J,  and  his  wife  died  in 
..S7,S. 

William  Albert  Lockhart  pursued  his  early 
studies  in  the  schools  of  .St.  John,  and  com- 
pleted his  education  at  the  .Saikville  Acadeni)". 
He  was    for  ;i   time  eniido)i'd   b\    I.ockhait   & 


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Co.,  (k'.'ilcrs  ill  li;its,  caps,  :iml  liirs;  Ixit  a 
prospect  (if  s|)ei;(ly  biisiiR'ss  advancement  in- 
duced him  to  accept  a  clcrksiiip  in  Ills  father's 
store,  and  lie  was  stihsecpienlly  aihnitted  to 
p.irtiH'isiup,  tiie  linn  name  jjcciimint;  (Icnrj^e 
A,  Locishart  vK:  Sun.  Attci-  iiis  fatlier's  di'ali) 
lie  rcliiu|iiisiie(i  mercantile  pinsuits  in  order  to 
enj,'af;e  in  tlie  |;eneral  auction  and  hrokera;;e 
business,  \vliich  lie  has  condiicted  with  satis- 
factory financial  icsuits.  lie  was  a  nicniiier 
of  the  Common  t'ouiu  il  for  six  years,  anil  as 
Mayor  d mill j,M he  \ears  iScSg  yo  he  adminis- 
tereil  the  public  affairs  of  the  lity  in  a  judi- 
cious and  business-like  manner,  lie  has  also 
attended  to  the  issiiiiij;  of  inairia;;e  permits, 
li(pior  liiensi's,  and  so  forth.  His  ap|)oiMl- 
meiit  as  Collector  of  Customs  bears  the  date  ol 
March  31,   lyoo. 

Ill  I1S64  Mr.  I.ockhart  married  for  his  Inst 
wife  Mary  V..  Lawton,  daiinhtcr  of  James  l.aw- 
ton.  .She  died  in  iS^;,  leavinj;'  one  son, 
I''.  A.  I..  I.ockhart,  M.l). ,  a  member  of  the 
medical  staff  at  Mai,'ill  C'olle,i;e,  Montreal,  and 
])riiicipal  operator  on  the  ^ynce(doi;ical  staff  of 
the  Moiitieal  (icneral  lIos]'ilal.  In  1  SfiS  he 
married  for  his  second  wife  Harriett  .\.  (iil- 
morc,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  .Sarah  C. 
(iilmore,  of  St.  .Stephen,  .\.H.,  and  a  step 
daughter  of  the  lion.  William  I'.lder,  I'ro\in- 
cial  .Secietarv.  'I'lie  children  of  this  union 
are:  lulitli  .\lberta,  who  died  at  the  ai^e  of 
eij;hteen  years;  William  .Alexander;  Mdwin 
Hyard,  who  is  studvinj;'  for  the  Methodist  min- 
stry  at  I'nivcrsity  I'ark,  I'ortland,  Ore.  ; 
Alice  M.  ]•;.  ;  ISealriie  ,\ilcen;  ;(nd  (ieor^e 
Al!)ert  I.ockhart. 


.Mr.  I.ockhart  has  advanced  in  Masonry  to 
the  Coimiiandery,  is  a  member  of  the  .Sons  of 
'i'emi)erance,  and  formerly  beloii};ed  to  tin:  In- 
dependent ( )riler  of  Odd  l'"ellows. 


Kl'DI'lRICK  MOOKi:,  an  extensive 
s  Imr.ber  manufacturer,  farmer,  and  stock - 
raisi'i'  <if  Wiiodstock,  N'.M.,  is  a  man  of  ^'reat 
business  eiiler|)rise  and  sa.:,'acity.  lie  was 
born  l''el)ruai\'  II,  1N40,  in  Cianterbiir)-,  N'ork 
County,  which  was  also  the  birthplace  of  his 
father,  William  .Moore.  John  Moore,  liis  jia- 
teriial  ;;randfather,  was  born  in  the  north  of 
Ireland. 

Immi;.;ratin;;  to  America  in  earl)  manhood, 
John  Moore  settled  in  New  \'ork;  and  during; 
the  Revolutionary  War  he  w.is  drafted  into  the 
.\mericaii  army,  but  was  afterward  exchaiij;ed 
for  a  liiilisb  soldier.  Keniovin;;'  then  to  New 
Brunswick,  be  became  a  pioiu'er  settler  in  the 
vicinity  of  .St.  Jnhn.  lie  linally  went  faitbci 
up  the  ri\er;  and,  biiyinj;  land  in  what  is  now 
the  town  of  Canterbury,  N'ork  Coiintv,  he  im- 
proved a  farm,  on  which  he  spent  his  remain- 
in-  days. 

William  .Moore,  Ikjiii  March  1  j,  1797,  son 
of  John,  succeeded  to  the  (nciipalion  to  whiih 
be  was  reared,  and  (biriiii;  his  entire  active 
life  was  employed  in  farming;  and  luniberini;. 
He  married  ICliza  Lalb.im,  dauf^hter  of  (ieorge 
Taylor  Latham,  of  Halifax,  N.  .S.  .She  was 
horn  on  .September  _'S,  iSiS.  I  lei  father  was 
born  in  1 71JO  in  Hamilton,  .Scntl.mil.  I'lleven 
children  were  born  to  William  and  h'.li/a  J,. 
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as  follows:  William,  July  2,  1S38;  Frederick, 
February  11,  1840;  Joiin,  January  26,  1842; 
Mary,  April  11,  1844;  Charlotte,  June  27, 
1848;  Georf^c,  June  17,  1850;  R()l)ert,  No 
vember  8,  1854;  Hcrtlia  J. ,  F'ebruary  1 8,  1857; 
Henry,  April  28,  1859;  lulith,  November  22, 
1862;  Elizabeth,  May  19,  1864.  The  sur- 
vivors are:  Frederick,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  familiarly  known  as  Fred;  Mary,  the 
wife  of  George  Van  Wart;  Charlotte;  and 
Kobert.  Fdith,  one  of  the  departed,  was  the 
wife  of  William  Sipperell. 

Fred  Moore,  as  lie  is  commonly  called, 
began  working  in  tlie  lumber  woods  ft)r  his 
father  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years,  having 
charge  of  a  team.  He  reniaincd  with  his  par- 
ents until  1862,  when  he  commenced  work  on 
his  own  account  in  Canterbury  as  a  farmer  and 
lumberman,  l^y  dint  of  energetic  and  per- 
severing industry  he  has  developed  one  of  the 
best  improved  farms  in  York  County,  and  has 
become  one  of  the  largest  stock  raisers  and 
dealers  in  the  county.  He  raises  abuntiant 
crops  of  grain,  and  cuts  from  one  hundred  and 
twenty  to  two  hundred  tons  of  hay  annually. 
His  stock  often  included  si.xty-five  head  of 
horned  cattle  and  ninety-si.x  hogs.  In  1882  he 
built  at  Canterbury  the  finest  gri.st-miil  in 
tliis  part  of  the  iirovince,  and  two  years  later 
(1884)  erected  his  first  saw-mill  in  Wood- 
stock, where  in  1896  he  also  built  his  present 
well-equipjied  shingle-mill.  He  emjiloys  on 
an  average  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  men 
in  manufacturing  lumber,  which  sometimes 
amounts  to  eight  million  feet  a  year.  I-"or  the 
past  eight  years  Mr.  Moore  has  driven  all  the 


logs  from  Grand  Falisto  the  Fredericton  boom 
limits,  thus  furnishing  employment  to  two 
hundred  men,  exclusive  of  t.  ose  engaged  in 
farming  and  milling.  In  April,  1896,  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  George  H.  Shea  and 
Hubert  Seely,  under  the  firm  name  of  the 
Iloulton  I'^oundry  and  Machine  Cumjiany. 
This  concern,  whose  plant  is  locateil  in  Iloul- 
ton, Me.,  is  still  doing  a  substantial  business 
under  the  same  name,  although  the  member- 
siiip  has  been  changed,  Mr.  Moore's  sons, 
Charles  M.  and  George  B. ,  having  inirchased 
Mr.  Seely 's  interest. 

Mr.  Moore  married  Lucy  Ann  Akerly,  of 
Southampton,  York  County,  N.  H. ,  and  they 
have  four  children,  namely:  Charles  Miles; 
George  Ihuiis;  Minnie,  wife  of  Harold  Grant, 
of  Wood.stock;  and  Mary.  Politically,  Mr. 
Moore  is  a  Liberal,  loyal  to  his  party,  toward 
the  funds  of  wliich  he  contributes,  although  he 
will  not  accept  office.  l'"raternally,  he  is  a 
member  of  Woodstock  Lodge,  1"".  &  A.  M. 
Mr.s.    Moore  attends  the  Baptist  church. 


AMUl-^L  K1'"RR,  senior  jiroprictor 
of  St.  John  Business  College  and 
.Shorthand  Institute,  was  born  in 
Cornwallis,  N.  S.,  January  10,  1843,  .son  of 
Matthew  and  Funic e  (Flls)  Kerr.  Matthew 
Kerr,  who  was  born  in  the  north  of  Ireland, 
was  a  son  of  Hugii  Kerr,  a  farmer,  who  with 
his  brothers,  Matthew  and  John,  came  to  Nova 
Scotia  in  iSiS.  .Amitlier  brother,  James,  fol- 
lowed several  years  later.  Hugh  Kerr  married 
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James,  who  died  in  Minnesota  in  1886; 
Matthew,  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
Samuel  G. ,  of  the  Kerr  Vegetable  Evaporating 
Company  of  Canning,  N. S.  ;  Maitha,  who 
married  George  Ikst,  of  Aylesford,  N.  S.  ; 
Jane,  who  became  the  wife  of  James  Kerr,  of 
Aylesford,  N.  S.  ;  and  Sarali,  who  married  Ben- 
jamin Newcomb,  of  Canning,  N.  S.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Hugh  Kerr  were  memi)ers  of  the  Presby- 
terian church.  Tlie  former  died  in  1854,  at 
the  age  of  si.\ty-four  years.  His  wife  survived 
him  twenty  years,  dying  in  Canning  at  the  age 
of  eighty-two  years. 

The  Kerr  family  came  originally  from  Ro.x- 
burghshire,  in  the  south  of  Scotland,  the  head 
of  the  family  being  the  IJuke  of  Ro.xburgh. 
About  the  year  1690,  King  William  granted 
lands  in  county  Antrim,  about  forty  miles 
north  of  Belfast,  Ireland,  as  the  reward  of 
military  services,  to  three  brothers,  George, 
Alexander,  and  Hugh  Kerr,  from  Roxburgh- 
shire. The  Hugh  thus  rewarded  was  the 
remote  ancestor,  in  a  direct  line,  each  succeed- 
ing one  being  called  Hugh,  ">f  the  Hugh  who 
came  to  Nova  Scotia  in  i8i8. 

Matthew  Kerr  w.is  trained  in  agricultural 
pursuits,  which  he  followed  in  Coinwallis, 
N. S.,  during  his  lifetime.  His  wife,  Eunice 
Ivlls  Kerr,  was  a  daughter  of  Benjamin  and 
Mary  (i''atoii)  Ells,  both  of  whose  parents  were 
New  Enghuul  jieople  who  settled  in  Nova 
Scotia  about  1760,  and  who  were  of  the  sixty 
original  grantees  of  the  township  of  Corn- 
wallis,  granted  by  King  George  II.  Matthew 
and  Eunice  Kerr  were  the  parents  of  Samuel, 
of  whom   a    separate   account    will    be  given; 


Martha,  who  married  Rufus  Huntley,  of 
Stewiacke,  N.  S.  ;  Lydia,  who  became  the  wife 
of  Robert  Cox,  of  Stewiacke,  N. S.  ;  and 
Bessie,  who  married  Jedediah  Loomer,  of 
Kingsport,  N.  S. 

Mrs.  Eunice  Ells  Kerr  died  in  1855,  and 
Matthew  Kerr  married  for  his  second  wife 
Annie  Bigelow,  ilaughter  of  Justus  Bigelow,  of 
Medford,  N.  S.  By  this  union  there  were 
the  following  children:  Erank,  Erederick, 
Jessie,  Olivia,  and  Grace.  The  father, 
Matthew  Kerr,  died  in  December,  1896,  at 
the  age  of  seventy-eight  years.  His  second 
wife  pre-deceased  him  five  years,  dying  in 
1891. 

Samuel  Kerr  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  high  school  at  Canning,  N. S. 
Subsecjuently,  for  four  years,  he  was  engaged 
as  teacher  (class  one)  in  the  jiublic  schools. 
Then  he  was  successively  employed  as  clerk 
and  book-keeper  in  the  offices  of  several  mer- 
cantile and  manufacturing  establishments. 
Coming  to  St.  John  in  1869,  he  took  a  course 
of  stiidy  in  the  .St.  John  Commercial  College 
under  Mr.  A.  H.  I^aton,  v.ho  had  founded  two 
years  previously  what  is  nov.'  the  oldest  estab- 
lishment of  the  kind  in  the  Maritime  Prov- 
inces. Upon  completing  the  course,  he  was 
invited  by  Mr.  IvUon  to  become  a  teacher  in 
his  institution.  This  offer  coinciding  with 
Mr.  Kerr's  inclinations,  he  accepted  it,  and 
held  the  position  until  the  destruction  of  the 
college  in  the  great  fire  if  1877.  Subsequent 
to  tiiat  event,  Mr.  Kerr  continued  the  business 
as  proprietor,  and  has  been  thus  engaged  up  to 
the  present  time.     His  son,  Sidney  L.,  is  now 


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associated  witli  liim,  haviiif;^  charge  "1  tlie 
sliortliaml  dcijartnicnt. 

The  p'k'ii  of  work  outlined  for  the  students 
in  this  institution  is  a  most  adniirahle  one,  and 
is  worthy  the  attention  of  all  those  intending 
to  enter  ni)on  a  business  or  commercia)  career. 
It  is  fully  described  in  a  hnndiiook  issued  annu- 
ally by  the  proprietors.  Jirielly,  it  includes 
both  tlieoretical  and  practical  tiainini;  of  a 
most  tiiorough  kind,  adiipted  t(j  the  denianils  of 
any  branch  of  business  or  commerce.  Its  lead- 
ing features  are  a  thorough  drilling  in  accounts 
and  commercial  calculations,  daily  practice  '.i 
actual  luisiness  transactions,  the  student  being 
supplied  for  that  nurjjose  with  a  ca|)ital  am- 
sisting  of  engraved  college  bnnk-notes,  and 
merchandise,  bank  stocks,  etc.,  in  the  hape 
of  printetl  cards  of  various  kinds,  which  he  uses 
the  same  as  if  engageil  in  actual  business; 
book-keepi.ig  in  all  its  brandies;  instruction 
in  banking,  wholesale  luisiness  methods,  busi- 
ness customs,  joint-stock  accounts,  commercial 
law,  business  penmanship,  correspondence, 
|)ractical  grammar,  s|)elling,  shorthand,  t_\|ie- 
writing,  etc.  Altogether,  the  college  is  a 
model  one  of  the  kind,  and  a  credit  to  the  city 
in  which  it  has  accomplislieil  a  useful  mission 
for  so  many  yeiu's,  as  well  as  to  its  ])ropiietors, 
Mr.  Samuel   Kerr  &  Son. 

Mr.  Kerr  was  married  to  Miss  Sarah  Hlenk- 
horn,  a  native  of  Canning,  N. .S.,  and  ilaughter 
of  James  Hlenkhorn,  edge-tool  manufacturer  of 
that  |)lace.  His  cbildien  are:  iMuiicc,  the 
wife  of  D.  A.  McLcod,  of  St.  Joim  ;  Sidney, 
who  has  been  already  mentioned;  l-lvn,  the 
wife  of  S.    W.    Milligan,    of    St.    John;    and 


Arthur,  stenogra[)her  in  the  offices  of  the  Cana- 
dian Pacific  Railway  Comjiany,  St.  John. 
Mrs.  Kerr  died  in  1881.  Mr.  Kerr  is  a  I'res- 
byterinn,  and  a  member  of  the  session  of  St. 
David's  I'resbyterian  Churcii 


AMKS  J.  .McC.AI'FKi.W,  lea  importer, 
.St.  John,  was  boin  June  17,  1849,  in 
Ikooklyn,  N.  V.  J I  is  father  was  con- 
nected with  the  whol^.sale  tea  business  in  New 
York  City  for  many  years,  and  he  himself  after 
completing  his  studies  in  the  common  schools 
of  I^rooklyn  began  the  activities  of  life  as  an 
employee  of  a  tea  broker  and  repacker  in  New 
York  City.  He  first  came  to  New  Urunswick 
in  1863,  and  was  clerk  in  his  uncle's  store  in 
Florenceville  for  a  year  at  the  end  of  which 
time  he  went  back  to  New  \'ork.  Returning 
to  New  IJrunswick  in  1866,  he  entered  the  em- 
])loy  of  Thomas  R.  Jones,  of  .St.  John,  in  1S67; 
and  in  1S68  he  became  (hat  merchant's  travel- 
ling re|)resentative  on  the  North  .Shore  of  New 
15runswick,  remaining  in  that  capacity  until 
May,  1876.  Dining  the  ne.xt  two  years  he  was 
travelling  salesman  on  commission  for  l^vcrett 
&  Butler,  dry-goods  dealers,  and  for  Logan, 
Lindsay  &  Co.,  and  J.  H.  Halfrv,  wholesale 
boot  and  shoe  merchants.  'I'hese  funis,  having 
curtailed  their  business  on  account  of  heavy 
losses  by  the  great  fire  of  1877,  he  withdrew 
from  their  empltiy;  and  in  1878  he  estaljlished 
himself  in  the  wholesale  tea  business,  which  lie 
has  carried  on  successfull)'  to  the  present  time. 
He  is  an  extensive  im[)orter  and  an  expert 
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his  personal  acc|uaintaiice  with  merchants 
throiigliout  the  I'rovinccs  lias  enabled  him  to 
build  lip  a  large  trade. 

In  September,  1873,  Mr.  McGafTlgan  was 
united  in  marriage  with  IMiss  Lizzie  Davidson, 
daughter  of  William  Davidson,  of  Traca<lie, 
Gloucester  County.  I'our  children  have  been 
born  of  this  union,  namely:  I'llhi;  Minnie; 
Hessic;  and  Annie,  who  died  August  28,  1S9.S, 
aged  fourteen  years. 

Mr.  McGaffigan  is  a  memi)er  of  the  Catholic 
Mutual  Hcnefit  Association.  He  atteiuls  the 
Roman  Catholic  church. 


RTMUR  Wia.I.I'.SI.lA'  LOViriT, 
manager  for  MHlcr  &  \\'oodman,  lum- 
ber manufacturers,  St.  John,  was 
born  in  that  city  in  1S49,  .son  of  (ieori.'-e 
Leonard  and  v^livia  .S.  I.ovctt.  His  first 
American  ancestor  on  the  paternal  side  came 
from  Devonshire,  England,  early  in  the  seven- 
teenth contury,  and  settled  in  New  England. 

Captain  Daniel  I.ovett  was  born  at  Jhent- 
wood,  N.  II.,  in  1753.  He  first  came  to  the 
mouth  of  the  St.  John  River  in  1765,  with  his 
elder  brother,  Jonathan  Lo\ett,  and  some  years 
after  they  settled  ujion  the  site  of  the  jiresent 
city.  Jonathan  I.ovett  built  the  first  vessel 
ever  launciied  nt  .St.  John,  and  for  a  numlier  of 
years  he  and  his  brother,  Captain  Daniel 
I.ovett,  commanded  vessels  sailing  from  St. 
John.  On  one  occasion,  tluring  the  war,  Cap- 
tain Daniel  I.ovett,  returning  from  the  West 
Intlics,  was  captured  off  Partridge  Island,  after 
a  hard  fight  with  two  y\merican  privateers,  ami 


carried  with  his  vessel  to  the  States,  where  he 
was  a  prisoner  of  war  for  some  time,  but  later 
returned  to  .St.  John.  In  17H3  he  was  Govern- 
ment Pihit  for  the  Hay  of  P'undy,  and  in  that 
cajjacity  brought  to  St.  John  the  first  fleet 
which  conveyed  the  Loyalists  from  their  old 
iiomes  to  settle  at  St.  John.  Another  brother 
was  in  the  British  army  with  General  Wolf  at 
the  seige  and  cajiture  of  Uuebec  in  1759. 

In  1797  Captain  Daniel  I.ovett  retired  from 
the  sea,  and,  purchasing  a  property  lying  be- 
tween the  present  Canterbury  Street  and  the 
water  front,  built  a  residence  on  Prince  Will- 
iam Street  and  Lovett's  Wharf  on  Water 
.Street.  He  was  for  a  number  of  years  Harbor 
Master  of  St.  John.      He  died  in  1S33. 

Hy  his  union  with  .Sarah  Ring,  his  first 
wife,  there  were  three  children:  Daniel  and 
Jacob,  both  of  whom  became  shipmasters;  and 
.Sarah,  who  married  Benjamin  DeWolf,  of 
Windsor,  N.  .S.  His  second  wife  was  Mary 
Torrev,  of  Plymouth,  Mass.  ;  and  she  bore  him 
one  son,  (ieorge  Leonard,  wjio  was  born  in 
I  .S07. 

George  Leonanl  Lovett  spent  his  life  in  .St. 
Jolin,  was  a  merchant  and  ship-owner,  and  died 
in  I. '^75.  He  married  Olivia  .S.  Prince,  of 
Lawreiu'et(jwn,  N..S.  Her  father,  Christo[)her 
Kimball  Prince,  was  a  son  of  C(donel  Chris- 
topher Wentworth  Prince  of  the  British  army. 
George  Leonard  Lovett  was  the  father  of 
seven  children,  tiuee  (if  wiioin  are  living, 
namely:  George  I'"rederick,  who  resides  in 
Boston,  Mass.;  Louisa;  and  Arthur  W.,  of 
St.  John. 

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ihn  Grammar  School.  l"'or  a  number  of  years 
after  the  completion  of  his  studies  he  was  en- 
gaged in  various  occupations.  In  1880  he 
entered  the  employ  of  Messrs.  White  &  Wood- 
man as  manager  ot  tlieir  business  in  St.  John, 
a  po.siti(/n  which  he  still  fills. 


[inVARU  C.  GOODICN  (originally  spelled 
Goodwin),  of  May  Verte,  Westmor- 
land County,  N.  H. ,  was  born  in  Tidnish, 
about  two  miles  from  this  town,  May  7,  1828, 
a  son  of  Isaac  Gooden,  and  is  of  ICnglish 
stock.  His  great-grandfather  Gooden,  whose 
given  name  was  Daniel,  was  one  of  four 
brothers,  who  emigrated  from  Devonshire, 
I'2ngland,  to  Connecticut  in  1751.  Daniel 
Gooden  served  as  a  soldier  under  Colonel 
Winslow,  and  at  one  time  he  was  sent  as  mes- 
senger from  Fort  Cumberland  to  Kort  Monc- 
ton  demanding  the  surrender  of  Colonel 
Villiers.  He  was  with  General  Wolfe  at  the 
taking  of  Quebec.  He  was  granted  for  his 
services  large  tracts  of  wilderness  lands  in 
Bay  Verte  and  Tidnish,  antl  he  located  as  a 
farmer  in  Tidnish.      He  iiad  eleven  sons. 

Jonathan  Gooden,  one  of  the  eleven  sons  of 
Daniel,  settled  in  Tidnish.  Trained  to 
habits  of  industry  and  possessing  an  unlimited 
stock  of  energy,  he  labored  faithfully  during 
his  long  life,  and  met  with  deserved  success 
in  his  efforts  to  improve  a  homestead.  A 
man  of  fervent  piety,  he  was  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  church,  and  frequently 
was  leader  in  its  religious  .services.  His 
wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  IClizabeth  Chap- 


pell,  was,  like  himself,  of  English  descent. 
She  bore  him  two  sons  and  seven  daughters, 
of  whom  the  last  to  die  was  I'riscilla,  widow 
of  the  late  John  Phelan. 

Isaac  Gooden,  the  eldest  son  of  Jonathan, 
was  born  on  the  old  homestead,  part  of  which 
subsequently  came  into  his  possession,  and 
there  he  spent  his  fifty-two  years  of  earthly 
existence.  He  was  very  active  in  religious 
affairs  ami  an  enthusiastic  worker  in  the 
Methodist  church,  of  which  both  he  and  his 
wife  W'TC  members.  He  married  Annie, 
daughter  of  John  Fawcett,  of  Sackville,  N.  B. 
Thirteen  children  were  born  of  their  union, 
and  eleven  grew  to  years  of  maturity.  Of 
these  si.x  are  now  living,  as  follows:  Fieanor, 
widow  of  Gustavus  W.  Hamilton,  of  Ireland; 
Fdward  C. ,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  John 
v.,  who  married  Mary  Hariier,  of  Sackvillo, 
N.  B.  ;  IClizabeth,  wife  of  Hotsford  Turner,  of 
Port  I'Hgin,  N.  B.  ;  Margaret,  who  married 
Wesley  W.  I<\awcett,  of  Sackville;  and  Ara- 
bella, widow  of   the   late   Henry  Carey. 

lulward  C.  Gooden  in  1855  settled  in  Bay 
Verte,  where  he  opened  a  store  of  general 
merchandise,  which  he  has  continued  up  to 
the  present  day.  His  trade  having  increased 
from  time  to  time,  he  admitted  into  partner- 
ship a  few  years  ago  his  son-in-law,  Beilford 
Harper,  the  firm  name  becoming  1",.  C. 
Gooden  &  Co.  He  is  a  Methodist  in  religion, 
a  Conservative  in  politics.  h"or  twenty-six 
years  he  has  been  Coroner  of  the  county  of 
Westmorland,  and  for  three  years  he  has  been 
Commissioner  and  .Secretary  of  the  Pilotage 
Authority  of  Bay  Verte  and  Port  Elgin. 


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ried M;irj;aret  J.  Carey,  who  was  born  Sej)- 
tcmber  12,  1S29,  aiul  died  November  4,  1S63. 
Slie  bore  iiini  si:i  chihbeii,  of  wliom  three  are 
now  living;  namely,  William  I..,  Hester  A., 
and  Antoinette. 

William  L.,  who  was  a  faithful  student, 
won  at  Saekville  College  the  Gilchrist 
scholarship;  and  in  I'-dinburgh,  Scotland,  and 
at  Ilcidclberf;  he  won  several  other  prizes. 
He  became  Doctor  of  .Science,  and  for  several 
years  has  been  professor  of  science  at  Oucen's 
University  in  Kingston,  Ont.  He  married 
Chri.stina,  daughter  of  the  Kev.  William 
Murray,  a  Presbyterian  minister,  and  has  five 
children —  William  M.,  I'.dith  C,  I'.dward 
L. ,  Dorothy,  and  Alice.  Hester  A.  is  the 
wife  of  Hedford  Harper,  and  has  five  children 
—  William  H.,  Marion  j^lsie,  Winifred  Susan, 
Margaret,  and  Muriel.  She  is  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  church  and  leader  of  the  choir. 
Antoinette  completed  her  education  in  Ger- 
many, and  is  now  teacher  of  music  in  Kings- 
ton, Ont. 

Mr.  Gooden  and  Clara  Carey  were  married 
in  I<S64.  They  have  two  children  living; 
namely,  l^rnest  P.  and  Margaret  H.  I'.rnest 
P.  is  a  civil  engineer,  married  to  Irene  Irvine 
and  having  one  child,  ICdward  Maunsel,  l)orn 
May  8,  1.S94.  Margaret  is  the  wife  of  C. 
Stanley  Sutherland,  and  has  three  children  — 
Norman  C,  Wallace,  and  Marshall. 

The  children  (>f  ICdward  C.  Gooden,  and 
also  some  other  families  in  this  town,  have 
adopted  the  original  spelling  of  the  name, 
Goodwin. 


AMIvS  H.  PULM<:\,  for  many  years 
the  leading  painter  and  decorator  of  St. 
John,  was  born  in  Dover,  ICngland,  in 
1837.  Coming  to  St.  John  at  the  age  of  thir- 
teen years,  he  at  once  began  to  serve  an  ;ip- 
prenticcship  at  his  trade.  In  i.Sfio  he  went 
into  business  for  himself,  Jind  i)y  means  of  in- 
dustry backed  by  capability,  soon  succeeded 
in  building  up  a  lucrative  trade,  becoming  the 
leading  house  painter,  decorator,  and  sign 
painter  in  the  city.  Among  the  buildings 
that  he  worked  on  are  the  city  hall,  the  post- 
office  building,  the  railway  station,  the  P.irlia- 
ment  building  at  I'redericton,  besides  nearly 
all  of  the  better  class  of  buildings  in  the  mari- 
time provinces,  as  well  as  many  in  Port- 
land, Me. 

He  was  married  in  iSflo  to  Miss  Sarah  A, 
James,  a  daughter  of  Humphrey  James.  Her 
father,  now  deceased,  was  formerly  a  shoe 
manufacturer  of  St.  John,  to  which  place  he 
came  from  the  north  of  Ireland.  lught  chil- 
dren were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pullen; 
namely,  Clara  S.,  Sadie  A.,  Frederick  J.,  Ida 
May,  Jennie  A.,  l']lvira  H.,  James  H.,  and 
Walter  C.  Clara  S.  is  the  wife  of  J.  Harry 
Pepper,  of  Philadelphia.  Sadie  A.  is  the 
wife  of  A.  F.  de  I'orest.  Frederick  J.  died 
at  the  age  of  twenty-eight  years.  Iila  May  is 
the  wife  of  Dr.  A.  A.  Lewin,  of  Helle  Isle. 
Flvira  II.  is  now  Mrs.  A.  P.  Paterson,  of  St. 
John.  Walter  C.  died  at  tiie  age  of  three 
years  and  seven  months. 

Politically,  Mr.  Pullen  was  a  Liberal.  He 
accepted  the  nomination  as  provincial  candi- 
date at  the  last  general  election  in  1894.     He 


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was  a  mcmlicr  of  llitiernian  I.odj^e,  A.  I*".  & 
A.  M.  ;  of  the  Now  Urunswick  Cliaptcr, 
R.  A.  M.;  and  cf  ihc  St.  John  luicamiinicnt, 
K.  T.,  of  whicli  ho  was  Provincial  I'lior, 
being  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason.  He  also 
belonged  to  the  I.  O.  O.  I',  anil  to  the  Union 
Club,  and  was  president  of  St.  George's  So- 
ciety for  two  years.  He  was  a  vestryman  of 
Trinity  Churcii.  An  ardent  sportsman,  he 
was  considered  the  best  shot  for  woodcock  in 
St.  John.  His  death  occurred  Se|)teniber  25, 
1897,  and  was  widely  regretted.  His  wife 
died  a  few  years  previously. 

James  H.  I'ullcn,  Jr.,  born  January  3,  1876, 
was  reared  in  .St.  John  and  educated  at  the 
Collegiate  School,  Windsor,  X.S.  At  the 
age  of  fifteen  years  he  began  to  learn  the  trade 
of  painter  and  decorator  under  his  father,  and 
in  1S96  was  admitted  to  i)artnership  with 
him.  On  his  father's  death,  in  1897,  he  .suc- 
ceeded to  the  business,  which  he  now  carries 
on  successfully.  He  was  married  November 
8,  1898,  to  Miss  Lalage  L.  Hunii,  a  daughter 
of  Charles  II.  liunn,  a  contractor  and  mason 
of  New  \'urk,  in  which  city  Mrs.  I'ullen  was 
born. 

Mr.  rullcn  is  a  member  of  the  A.  I'".  & 
A.  M.,  Albion  Lodge;  of  the  I.  I).  O.  b'or- 
csters,  Court  La  Tour,  No.  125;  and  of  St. 
George's  .Society. 


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ANH'.L    KI;RGUS()N,    Collector  of 
Customs   at    the   jiort   of    Chatham, 
N.IL,  was   born   near  Campbellton, 
Restigouche,  N.H.,  April  30,  182O.     He  was 


educated  at  Perth  and  .Aberdeen,  Scotland; 
and,  returning  to  his  n;itivc  Province,  he 
sti'died  law  in  the  offices  of  Chipman  Hots- 
ford,  l';s(|.,  Campbellton,  and  George  Hotsford, 
Ls(|.,  I'"redericton.  Being  admitted  an  attor- 
ney in  1848  and  called  to  the  bar  in  1850,  ho 
engaged  in  the  pnictice  of  his  i)rofession  in 
Campbellton  and  afterward  in  Chatham,  N.I5. 
In  July,  i860,  he  received  the  appointment  of 
Registrar  of  Pmbatos  for  the  county  of  North- 
umberland. 

(Jn  .March  27,  1865,  he  was  appointed  by 
the  New  Mrunswick  government  Deputy 
Treasurer  and  Controller  of  Customs  at  the 
l)ort  of  Chatham,  which  office  he  has  contin- 
ued to  nil  till  the  present  time  under  the  stylo 
(since  confederation)  of  Collector  of  Custonis. 

Mr.  Ferguson  took  a  deep  interest  in  the 
volunteer  militia  movement,  his  first  commis- 
sion being  as  Lieutenant  with  rank  from  Feb- 
ruary 24,  i860.  On  .September  21,  1870,  he 
was  gazetted  first  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the 
Seventy-third  Haltalion,  which  he  largely  as- 
sisted in  organizing;  and  on  July  10,  1874, 
he  was  permitted  to  retire,  retaining  rank. 
Since  1855  he  has  boon  an  active  member  of 
the  Highland  Society  of  New  Mrunswick  at 
Miramichi,  of  which  ho  was  for  a  number  of 
years  the  treasurer  and  afterward  president. 

A  warm  adherent  of  the  Presbyterian 
church,  he  has  ;ilways  taken  a  deoi)  interest  in 
everything  affecting  that  denomination;  and 
on  the  Hoard  of  Trustees  of  St.  Andrew's 
Church,  with  which  he  was  connected,  he  fre- 
quently sat  as  chairman. 

In  1855  he  was  married  to   Miss   Catherine 


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ArnistroriK.  of  Sorcl,  CM'",.,  dauf^htcr  of  the 
late  Cajjlain  J.  ]).  Armstrong;,  liarhor  master 
of  (jiiehec.  She  died  in  18^17,  leaving  tiiree 
daughters,  tiiree  sons  iiavin^  died  in  cliild- 
Jiiiod. 

Mr.  Fer{,'us()n's  father,  the  late  Robert  Ker- 
fjuson,  of  Athol  House,  Resti;;oiiche,  a  na- 
ti\e  of  I.oi;ier:iil  in  Siotland,  was  one  of  the 
pioneer  Uritisii  settlers  on  the  Resti^ouehe 
River,  where  lie  l)e^an  l)usiness  in  1796. 
Robert  I'erguson  was  a  man  of  ;^reat  enerfjy 
and  perseverance,  and  was  soon  carrying  on  a 
large  l)usiness  with  the  New  iMigland  States. 
On  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  in  i.Si:;  liis 
vessel,  with  a  valuable  cargo  of  fish  and  furs, 
w.as  taken  by  an  American  privateer,  and  he 
w.as  taken  a  prisoner  to  Salem,  Mass.,  hut  re- 
leased shortly  afterward.  In  tiie  summer  of 
1814,  a  rumor  having  readied  Restigouche 
that  peace  was  restored,  he  started  witii 
another  cargo  for  Boston,  unfortunately  only 
to  fall  into  the  hands  of  another  ])rivateer. 
Tliis  time,  however,  he  escaped  with  the  loss 
of  only  a  few  barrels  of  fish.  ,\fter  a  life  of 
hardship  and  adventure  he  died  in  1.S51,  at 
the  ripe  age  of  eighty-tiiree  years,  leaving  a 
large  family.  His  wife,  whose  maideri  name 
was  Mary  .\danis,  was  the  first  child  born  of 
Hritish  parents  in  Restigouche. 


C5|  1I1<:  M(  AVITY  F.XMILV,  of  .St.  John, 
q)\  N.H.  ,  dates  from  the  arrival  in  that 
city,  in  181N,  of  James  Mc.Xvity,  bis  wife, 
and  their  four  sons.  He  w.is  a  descendant  of 
an   okl    Scotch    family,    which,    coming    from 


Dumbartonshire,  had  been  for  several  genera- 
tions settled  in  the  north  of  Ireland. 

James  McAvity  was  horn  in  the  county  of 
Donegal  on  the  20th  of  May,  a.h.  1766,  and 
was,  as  his  father  also  had  been,  a  Magistrate 
of  that  county.  Ueing  a  man  of  some  distinc- 
tion, his  character  and  jiopularity  were  such 
that  iluring  the  most  troublous  times  in  his 
native  land  he  could  travel  through  it  with- 
out fear  of  molestation.  In  1798  he  married 
Catherine  Hrooke,  a  member  of  that  promi- 
nent and  distinguished  family  whose  ancestor 
had  come  from  I-lngland  in  (jueen  l';iizabeth's 
time,  and  was  (lovernor  of  Donegal  Town  and 
Castle  about  the  year  1641. 

Mrs.  McAvity  was  a  lady  of  fine  attributes, 
and  it  was  owing  to  her  desire  and  influence 
that  the  removal  to  America  was  made.  See- 
ing that  the  allurements  of  the  Western  world 
were  then  drawing  many  young  away  from 
Ireland,  and  thus  dividing  fami''es.  and  be- 
lieving that  h'T  own  sons,  or  soi.!^  of  them, 
would  probably  follow  among  others,  she  de- 
termined to  avoid  a  separation  of  her  children, 
and  prevailed  upon  her  husband  to  remove 
with  their  family  to  America.  The  choice  of 
.St.  John  as  their  'ature  home  was  probably 
made  as  much  on  account  of  former  friends 
having  settled  tliere  as  that  tiie  place  was 
gaining  a  reputation  for  prosjierity. 

On  their  arrival  at  St.  John,  being  people 
of  means  and  social  qualifications,  they 
quickly  took  a  position  among  the  |)romi- 
nent  and  most  esteemed  citizens.  James  Mc- 
Avity lived  but  little  more  than  seven  years 
after  his  coming  to   St.   John,  where   he  died 


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on  the  13th  of  April,  1826,  respected  and  re- 
gretted. His  widow,  whose  (leatii  occurred  in 
1 8^)1,  survived  him  for  thirty-live  years. 
Their  four  sons  were:  John,  horn  in  1807; 
Thomas,  born  in  1810;  Alexander,  born  in 
1814;  and  William,  born  in  iSiC). 

John,  the  eldest  son,  after  simie  years  of 
mercantile  life,  removed  to  a  farm  in  the 
vicinity  of  the  city,  and  was  cpiite  successful 
in  his  agricultural  pursuits.  lie  married 
Miss  Ivli/a  Dickson,  of  Kinj^'s  County,  New 
Urunswick,  and  had  four  children  —  James, 
Charles,  Joseph,  and  Kathcrine.  James  mar- 
ried Miss  Amelia  Blanche  I'airweather,  of 
St.  John,  and  died  January  4,  1867,  leavin;^  a 
widow  and  '  "o  children  —  l';ii/al)cth  and 
Christinia,  wno  now  reside  in  .San  Francisco. 
Charles  married  a  daughter  of  James  G. 
Melick,  of  Norton,  Kin;^s  County,  by  whom 
he  has  a  family  liviuff  in  that  place;  namely, 
William  D.,  Gei^rge,  Herbert,  Maud,  and 
Catherine.  Jose])h  is  now  resident  in  St. 
John.  Katherine  married  Fulton  Heverly,  of 
Fredericton,  and  had  a  son,  George  I'Vancis 
Beverly,  merchant,  of  St.  John,  and  a  daugh- 
ter, Minnie,  wife  of  Dr.  H.  Nase,  dentist, 
resident  in  the  same  place. 

Alexander,  the  third  son  of  James  McAvity, 
was  a  lumber  merchant.  He  married  Isa- 
bella, a  daughter  of  William  Dunham,  who 
was  a  son  of  one  of  the  Loyalists,  original 
grantees  of  the  city  of  St.  John.  At  the  age 
of  thirty-three  years  he  died  in  1847.  His 
wife  survived  until  1894.  Their  children  liv- 
ing arc:  Annie,  wife  of  David  H.  Waterbury, 
of  St.   John;  Emily,  wife  of  Robert  13.   Gil- 


mour,  of  .St.  John;  and  a  son  Thomas,  who 
went  to  California,  and  has  not  been  heard 
from  for  several  years.  Mrs.  Waterbury  has 
three  sons  —  Harold,  David  H.,  and  A.  L. 
Palmer  Waterbury.  Mrs.  Gilmour  has  four 
children  —  ICinily  Reed,  ICdnah  \\'.,  Robert 
C,    and  John  U.  Gilmour. 

William  McAvity,  the  fourth  son  of  James, 
was  a  merehant,  and  was  a  partner  with  his 
brother  Thomas  for  several  years.  He  mar- 
ried Annie,  daughter  of  Captain  Joseph 
Hamm,  and  died  in  1859  a  widower,  leaving 
no  children. 

Thomas,  the  second  son,  whose  descendants 
are  the  most  numerous  of  those  who  bear  the 
family  name  in  New  Brunswick,  or  of  all  who 
are  sprung  from  the  common  ancestor,  James 
McAvity,  was  born  on  the  17th  of  March, 
A.I).  1810.  He  was  the  member  of  the  family 
who  attained  the  most  distinction  in  the  busi- 
ness world  and  as  a  public  officer  in  the 
affairs  of  the  city  of  St.  John.  After  having 
received  the  best  education  the  schools  of  that 
city  afforded,  he  began  his  business  life,  when 
quite  a  young  man,  in  the  hardware  establish- 
ment of  James  Hendricks,  who  was  a  promi- 
nent citizen  and  business  man  in  the  early 
days  of  the  rising  town.  As  successor  to  Mr. 
Hendricks,  Mr.  Thomas  McAvity  established 
the  now  widely-known  house  of  T.  McAvity 
&  Sons,  hardware  merchants,  brass  founders, 
etc.,  one  of  the  largest  and  most  successful 
firms  in  Canada,  having  an  international  repu- 
tation. 

He  took  |)art  in  many  of  the  financial, 
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(liirinj;  his  day,  was  a  mcnihcr  of  and  identi- 
fied with  several  ol  tiie  public  societies  and 
institutions  of  the  city,  and  was  for  many 
years  a  vestryman  of  Trinity  Church.  I'or 
some  years  he  sat  as  a  memher  of  the  Com- 
mon Council,  and  from  1859  to  1.S63  was 
Mayor  of  the  city.  Not  only  his  course  at  tiie 
Council  Hoard,  but  all  his  acts  as  a  citizen 
j;ave  evidence  that  he  ever  had  at  heart  tlie 
welfare  of  the  whole  people.  The  general 
recoj^nition  of  this  fact  was  jirohahly  the 
prime  reason  of  his  popularity,  for  he  was 
reserved  and  undemonstrative  in  manner,  and 
few  besides  his  intimate  friends  would  be 
aware  that,  notwithstandin;;  his  practical 
nature  and  occasionally  somewhat  austere 
bearing,  he  possessed  great  depth  of  feeling 
and  tender  sentiment. 

As  an  illustration  of  his  watchful  interest 
in  civic  affairs  may  be  mentioned  his  inde- 
pendent action  when,  in  1850,  an  attempt 
was  made  by  some  persons  in  the  community 
to  have  the  historic  "Old  Hurial-j^round  "  par- 
celled out  in  building  lots,  on  which  occasion 
he  stood  out  alone  against  all  the  other  mem- 
bers of  the  Council.  At  one  time  an  attempt 
was  made  to  run  a  street  through  the  grave- 
yard;  at  another,  to  give  a  part  of  it  to  the 
temperance  societies  of  the  city  as  a  site  for 
a  hall.  The  Common  Council  actually  voted 
in  support  of  that  pro])osal,  with  but  one  dis- 
senting voice,  that  of  Thomas  McAvity. 
While  he  desired  the  advancement  of  the 
cause  of  temperance,  he  yet  hail  to  say  that 
other  suitable  lots  for  the  projioscd  hall  were 
obtainable,  without  desecrating  the  old  God's- 


acre,  and  he  for  one  would  not  consent  to  such 
desecration.  The  vote  was  passed,  however, 
but  the  disapproval  and  resentment  of  the 
|)eople  were  so  (piickly  and  unmistakably 
shown  that  the  Common  Council  had  to 
rescind  the  resolution  forthwith;  and  so  the 
now  beautiful  little  park  was  saved  to  the  citi- 
zens. Thus  Mr.  McAvity  had  always  a  keen 
perception  and  ajipreciation  of  the  ideas  and 
real  desires  of  the  community.  In  public 
office  he  was  free  from  ostentation  and  moder- 
ate in  manner,  but  firm  of  purpose;  and  bis 
term  of  occupancy  of  the  chief  magistrate's 
chair  was  creditable  to  himself  and  bciiefuial 
to  the  city,  lie  was  a  sincere  friend,  a  good 
man,  and  a  truly  worthy  citizen. 

His  ileath  in  December,  1S87,  evoked  an 
expression  of  real  regret  in  all  classes  of  the 
community.  He  had  married  on  July  16, 
1835,  Isabella  .Sandall,  svho  was  of  Loyalist 
descent,  and  a  lady  whose  qualities  of  mind 
and  heart  endeared  her  to  every  one  who  had 
the  pleasure  of  her  act|uaintance.  Her  death 
occurred  on  the  loth  of  January,  1886.  Their 
children  were  eleven  in  number,  si.\  sons  and 
five  daughters.  The  daughters  were:  Mar- 
garet .Sandall,  wife  of  W.  ( ).  .Stewart,  of 
Hampton,  Kings  County;  Catherine  Annie, 
who  died  unmarried  in  1882;  Isabel,  wife  of 
lulwin  N.  .S.  .Stewart,  of  St.  John:  Hannah 
Amelia,  wife  of  F.  G.  Hlizzard,  of  .St.  John; 
and  ICUa  ICliza,  wife  of  (i.  Herbert  l-Mood,  of 
St.  John.  The  sons  are:  James  Hendricks, 
Thomas,  William,  John  Alexander,  George, 
and  .Stejihcn  .Sinnott,  all  of  whom  are  resi- 
dents of  St.  John,  and  are  connected  with   or 


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employed  in  the  l)iisiiic.ss  of  T.  McAvity  & 
Sons. 

Janu's  ilenilricks  McAvity,  the  eldest  son 
(if  'I'lionias  McAvity,  was  born  on  the  fif- 
teentli  day  of  Seiiteniber,  1838.  He  has  Ix'en 
twice  mairieil:  first,  on  June  ,?2,  1865,  to 
Miizaheth  Jane  Stevenson,  of  Savannah,  Ga., 
U.S.,  who  was  born  on  January  8,  1841,  and 
died  on  April  8,  1874.  Hy  her  he  had  three 
ciiililren;  Ada  Isabel  .Stevenson,  born  Aii- 
t;ust  J  I,  1866,  who  was  married  September  30, 
1896,  at  Trinity  Church,  .St.  John,  to  I'rank 
K'  'on  Came,  formerly  of  Maiden,  Mass.,  r.ow 
of  Montreal;  James  Lupton  McAvity,  iiorn  Oc- 
tober 8,  1867;  and  Thomas,  born  November 
2,  1868,  died  iJecember  7,  1869.  b'or  his 
second  wife  he  marrieil  at  I.ifcoln,  Me.,  U..S., 
on  June  12,  1S77,  Hlla  IClizabeth  Ayer.  Uy  her 
he  had  four  children,  namely:  Alice  Rebecca, 
born  on  May  12,  1878;  iMiiiiy  .May,  born 
March  5,  1880;  Norah  Clifford,  born  Decem- 
ber 7,  18S1,  died  Septen-.bcr  24,  1882;  and 
Mar„'aret  Francis,  born  March  20,   1887. 

Mr.  James  11.  McAvity,  tJK  oldest  member 
of  tlie  present  firm  above  mentioned,  was  the 
founder  of  its  business  in  the  manufacture  of 
brass  and  other  metal  work,  and  has  always 
taken  an  active  interest  in  tiiat  jiarticuJar  de- 
]5artment.  He  has  been  imeresled  in  the  pro- 
duction of  wood  ciiemicnl  fibre,  wood  pi'lp, 
and  paper  in  the  State  of  Maine.  He  is  a 
Justice  of  the  Peace  foi  .he  city  and  county  of 
.St.  John,  a  warden  of  Trinity  C'hurch  in  the 
|)arish  of  .St.  John,  and  a  mend)Lr  of  tiie 
.Madras  .School  Hoard. 

Thomas,    second   son   of    Thomas    McAvity, 


was  born  on  .Septi'mber,  21,  1843,  and  is  the 
head  of  the  e.\istin,^-  firm  of  T.  McAvity  & 
.Sons  and  a  first-class  man  of  business.  On 
July  12,  1866,  he  married  I'^lizabeth  Annie, 
only  child  of  the  late  t'aptain  James  Haddon, 
of  St.  John,  and  has  liiree  cl.ihhen,  namely: 
a  son,  Harry  II.;  :■  '  two  dauj^htcrs,  1^1  la 
Louise  and  I'lthel.  Mr.  Thomas  McAvity  is 
;i  warden  of  .St.  Johii's  Church,  in  the  parish 
of  .St.  Mark,  is  a  director  of  William  I'arks 
&  Son,  Limited,  and  is  one  of  tlie  leadin;.; 
citizens  of  St.  John. 

William,  third  son  of  Tiiomas  McAvi'y, 
was  born  on  April  29,  1846.  He  niarriiil  on 
Uecendier  28,  1889,  Annie  .Sclwyn  t^oliins,  of 
Hoston,   Mass.,  but  has   no  children. 

John  Alexander,  fourth  son  of  Thomas  Mc- 
Avity, was  born  on  November  10,  1851.  On 
November  5,  1879,  he  married  Mary  I'..,  daugh- 
ter of  William  H.  llum|)iiiey,  of  Yarmouth, 
Me.,  U..S.,  and  has  live  children,  namely: 
Lleanor  Louise,  born  in  1881  ;  Allan  (ictchell, 
i)orn  in  1882;  Mabel  Lldridf^e,  born  in  1885; 
Thomas  Malcolm,  born  in  1889;  ;md  Lmma 
Catherine,  horn  in  i8()2. 

(ieorge,  fifth  son  of  Thonvis  McAvity,  was 
bo.  .i  on  July  21,  1853.  He  married  on  I'eb- 
ruary  i,  1887,  Ida  Marguerite  Mills,  and  has 
three  children;  namely,  Ronald  Armstrong, 
(ieorge  Cliiford,  and  Rosamond  Hertha. 

.Stephen  .Sinnott,  sixth,  son  of  Thomas  Mc- 
Avity, w.is  born  on  June  20,  1857.  He  mar- 
ried on  September  15,  i88i),  Janet  Rankine, 
of  th-'  city  of  St.  John,  and  li.is  two  sons  — 
Percy  Douglas  and  'Thomas  .Alexander,  both  of 
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The  (lescer.clants  (if  Thomas  McAvity 
diroiigh  his  tl;iii>;thters  are  the  followiiifj: 
chihlrcii  of  Margaret  S. ,  wife  of  \V.  C). 
Stewart  —  namely,  1*"  ranees  Isabel  Stewart, 
Maria  Louise,  William  (Ulbiir  (deceased), 
Margaret  Amelia,  Thomas  IIcAvity,  J.  I'ercy 
I.ee,  and  J.  Westra  Harnes;  ciiildn.Mi  of 
Isabel,  wife  of  K.  N.  S.  Stewart  —  namely, 
{•'red  Stanley  Stewart,  luniiia  L.  (who  is  the 
wife  of  V.  J.  G.  Knowlton,  of  St.  John,  and 
has  two  children),  lulith  Stevenson,  Nora 
Isabel,  and  George  Harold  Stewart;  chil- 
dren of  II.  Amelia,  wife  of  I'",  (i.  Hlizzard 
— ^  Agnes  Isabel  Blizzard,  Mary  Humphrey, 
Cjeorge  McAvity,  Winifred,  and  Dorothy 
Stewart;  child  of  I'llla  ICliza,  wife  of  (}.  Her- 
bert I'Mooil  —  Carson   I'"lood. 

There  are  thus  now  living  (a.h.  1S99)  about 
fifty  descendants  of  James  Mc.Avity  and  Cath- 
erine, his  wife,  who  came  from  Ireland  to  .St. 
John,  N.H.,  A. 11.  1818. 


"^C^/Tl.I.IAM    DOX.M.l)    '-LANR1X, 
\^Y^      H.A.,   M.l).,    CM.,   ul    Woodstock, 
N.li.,  was  bom  there,  Decembers,   1864,  a  son 
of  l'"rancis  Ranlvin. 

James  Rankin,  his  palcmal  giaiulfatiicr, 
was  born  Scptendjcr  2,  17S7.  in  Meains,  Lan- 
cashire, -ScolI  .;vl.  and  died  December  26, 
1870,  in  New  liriuiswicU.  In  1829,  soon  after 
his  marriage  with  Marian  l'"eiguson,  of  Dun- 
1  ip,  Si-dtland,  James  R.uikin  came  to  .America. 
He  had  nine  children:  James,  of  Seattle, 
Wash.  ;  .\gncs,  wiio  is  the  widow  of  James 
Jaivis,    and    resides     in     Tnii|ua)-,     Scotland; 


Robert,  of  Liverpocd,  ICngland,  a  member  of 
the  lirm  of  Rankin  &  Gilmore,  one  of  the  old- 
est and  most  extensive  mercantile  lirms  of  that 
city;  y\le.\andcr,  of  London,  iMigland;  Helen, 
deceasLii,  M;irian,  deceased ;  Arthur;  I-'rancis; 
and  John,  also  a  member  (»f  the  lirm  of  Rankin 
&  Gilmore  in  Liverpool. 

I'rancis  Raiikiii  was  born  Ma\'  17,  1841,  in 
the  parish  of  Northampton,  N.I?.  Locating  i, 
liie  town  of  (iiafton,  he  purchased  his  present 
estate.  He  married  Catherine  J.,  daughter  of 
the  Ri  .-.  William  Donald,  D.D.,  a  I'resby- 
terian  clergyman  of  St.  John,  and  lhe\-  bec;nne 
the  parents  oi  foui-  childien,  of  whom  three  are 
still  living;  namely,  William  Donald,  Annie 
Marian,  and  Catherine  M.  The  Rev.  William 
Donald  was  born  in  lianffsbire,  .Scotland,  in 
1806.  He  was  educated  at  Mariscluil  College 
in  Abertleen,  frmvi  which  he  graduated  with 
the  degree  of  Master  of  i\rts,  and  in  which  he 
subseipiently  studied  thccdogy.  He  came  to 
America  to  take  charge  of  .St.  Andrew's  Chun  h 
in  St.  John,  X.  H.  l'"i)r  tuentytivo  \c.us,  or 
until  his  death,  in  1871,  he  retained  this  jias- 
lorate,  and  w;is  recognized  as  one  of  the  most 
liromincnt  and  able  clergymen  of  the  I'tovince. 
The  degiee  of  Doctor  .if  Divinity  was  conferri'd 
upon  him  in  1849  by  (Juecn's  College,  Kings- 
ton, Ont.  \\c  married  .\nn  Milne,  of  Hunt- 
lev,  Scotland. 

William  Donald  Rankin  received  his  prelim- 
inary education  in  the  Woodstock  Grammar 
School,  and  af'"rward  entered  the  University 
of  New  Ihunswick,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  the  class  of  1886  with  the  degree  of  Bach- 
elor of  Arts.      He  then  attended  medical    lect- 


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urcs  at  the  iMlinlniiyh  University,  Scotlancl, 
and  in  iSyo  graduated  frtini  that  noted  institu- 
tion with  the  dej;rees  (if  Doetor  of  Medicine 
and  Master  in  SMri;erv.  The  followini,^  )ear 
Dr.  Rankin  rettniied  In  \\'..iidstini<.  He  he- 
loiij^s  til  tlie  Halifax  iiranch  of  tiie  l^rilisli 
Medical  Association,  and  is  a  niemiier  of 
Woodstock  Lodge,  I'".  &  A.  M. 

Dr.  Rankin  married  Jennie,  daugluer  of 
l'"raneis  1'.  Siiariie,  of  this  city;  and  thev  have 
two  ciiilihen  L'ranclin  Sharpe  and  ALujorie. 
The  Doctor  attends  and  sujiiiorts  the  Anglican 
Church. 


fsTfOHN  O'HRIKN,  M. !'.!'.,  of  Nelson, 
X.H.,  a  general  merchant  and  dealer  in 
lumher,  was  born  in  Nelson  in  1847, 
son  of  John  and  Mary  (Alward)  O'lkien. 
His  father,  a  native  of  Waterford,  Ireland, 
emigrating  to  New  Hrunswick,  became  one  of 
the  early  settlers  of  Nelson,  building  one  of 
the  first  houses  in  that  place.  He  was  a 
farmer  by  occupation.  He  was  first  married 
in  thir.  country  to  a  Miss  O'lkien,  by  whom 
he  had  four  children.  .Subsetiuently  he  mar- 
ried for  his  second  wife  Mary  Alward,  a  na- 
tive of  Kilkenny,  Ireland,  who  also  bore  him 
four  children,  the  eldest  being  the  subject  of 
this  sketch.  The  father  died  at  the  age  of 
eighty-five  years,  his  wife  passing  away  at  tlu 
age  of  seventy-eight. 

John  O'Hrien.  second,  in  his  youth  ac- 
(|uired  a  Knowledge  of  mercantile  business, 
working  eight  years  as  clerk  for  Mr.  (ieorge 
Hurchell.  In  iS/ohe  established  his  general 
store    in    Nelson,  where   he   has   since  done  an 


e.vcellent  business.  He  also  deals  largely  in 
lumber,  having  a  crown  license  to  cut  his 
lumber.  He  owns  the  old  family  homestead, 
and  he  has  enlarged  the  estate  by  purchasing 
the  adjacent  farm  of  the  late  Richard  Sutton, 
at  one  time  Surveyor-general  of  the  province. 

Mr.  O'Hrien  has  been  largely  engaged  in 
public  lite.  He  was  County  Councillor  for 
many  years,  and  has  also  served  as  Warden  of 
the  county.  At  the  general  election  in  IcSqo 
he  was  elected  to  the  Provincial  Legislature, 
and  was  re-elected  to  the  same  office  in  1892, 
1895,  and  again  in  iUgg.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Catholic  Mutual  Henevolent  Association, 
and  is  president  of  the  Nortlv.iir.lierland  Agri- 
cultural Society,  in  which  he  takes  a  lively 
interest. 

Mr.  O'Hrien  married  Miss  Lillian  Mc- 
I'eake,  of  Fredericton,  a  daughter  of  the  late 
Patrick  Mci'eake,  a  merchant  and  at  one  time 
Postmaster  of  that  city.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
O'Hrien  have  two  children  —  John  MePeake 
and  Joseph  Leonard. 


I L  LARD  ().  WRIC.HT.  Secretary 
^^'  and  Treasurer  of  the  county  of  A\- 
bert,  New  Brunswick,  son  of  the  late  Rufus 
Wright,  is  a  well-known  citizen  of  Hopewell 
Cape,  where  he  was  born  November  19,  1852. 
His  paternal  grandfather,  William  Wright, 
removed  when  a  young  man  from  Nova  .Scotia 
to  l!o|iewell,  N.  H.,  and  from  that  time  until 
his  decease  was  there  em|iloyed  in  tilling  the 
soil.  William  Wright's  first  wile,  Lucy 
Stevens,  bore  him  but  one  child.      Hy  his  sub- 


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sequent  marriajje  with  Sarah,  daui^hter  of 
James  Clark,  of  Nova  Scotia,  he  had  eight 
children,  two  of  whom  are  living;  namely, 
l"!lizabeth  and  Mary  Ann.  I^lizabeth,  widow 
of  the  late  Winkworth  Hrewster,  of  1  lopcwell 
Hill,  has  one  child,  William,  who  married 
Florence  Moore,  and  has  two  children  —  Julia 
and  Herbert.  Mary  Ann,  widow  of  Captain 
David  Stiles,  has  five  children — -Mary,  Lucy, 
Henrietta,  .Sarah,  and  Isabel.  Hugh,  who  is 
now  deceased,  served  for  forty-three  years  as 
Collector  of  Rates  for  the  parish  of  Hope- 
well. He  married  Rebecca  Fearbury,  and 
five  children  born  of  theii  union  are  living, 
namely:  Eliza,  wife  of  Leander  Flliott,  who 
has  one  child,  Mabel  1'^  ;  W'ilmot:  Lucy,  wife 
of  Hueston  Stewart,  who  has  one  child,  Robert 
11.;   Alice;   and    Rufus,  Jr. 

Rufus  Wright  was  born  in  Hopewell,  anil 
for  many  years  was  an  important  factor  in  the 
development  of  its  industrial  interests.  A 
shoemaker  by  trade,  he  built  uji  m  extensive 
business,  which  necessitated  the  employment 
of  a  large  force  of  hands;  and  until  his  death, 
when  but  forty  years  old,  he  was  one  of  the 
leading  shoe  manufacturers  of  this  locality, 
and  was  likewise  pniminently  identified  with 
its  shiiiping  trade.  A  man  of  true  Christian 
zeal,  he  was  an  active  member  of  the  ]5a])tist 
church,  and  for  a  numiier  of  years  served  as 
Deacon.  He  married  Mary  M.  Calkins, 
daughter  of  James  Calkins,  Jr.;  and  she  is 
still  living,  making  her  home  witii  her  only 
child,  WillardO.  Ikr  paternal  grandfather, 
James  Calkins,  .Sr. ,  was  horn  in  Horton, 
N.S.,  but    in  early  life   became  a  resident  of 


Hopewell,  where  he  engaged  in  general  farm- 
ing until  his  death,  at  an  advanced  age.  His 
wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  j^lizabeth 
W'ickwan,  lived  to  the  age  of  ninety  years. 
( )f  their  seven  children  James,  Jr.,  v  as  the 
third  son. 

James  Calkins,  Jr.,  succeeded  to  the  occu- 
pation to  which  he  was  trained,  and  spent  his 
seventy-six  years  of  active  life  on  a  farm  in 
Lower  Hoi^ewell.  ( )f  his  union  with  Ann 
Wells  si.x  children  were  born,  three  of  whom 
survive,  namely:  Lliza,  widow  of  Joseph 
Calhoun;  Asenath  A.,  widow  of  the  Rev. 
K.  F.  Foshay;  and  Mary  M.  Mrs.  Calhoun 
has  two  children  — Annie  H.  and  Whitney  K. 
Annie  H.  Calhoun  married  Henjamin  Hray, 
and  has  two  children  living:  Artluir  H.  ;  and 
Ivah  J.,  wife  of  Willis  C.  Neweomb.  Whit- 
ney K.  Calhoun  married  Carrie  McNichols, 
and  has  three  children  -  William  C,  W., 
and  Josejih.  Mrs.  l'osh;iy  also  has  three  chil- 
dren; namely,  the  Rev.  Herbert  J.,  the  Rev. 
Milford,  and  Mary  Olive. 

Willard  (\  Wright  was  a  pupil  in  the  pub- 
lie  schools  of  Hopewell  Cape  until  he  was 
twelve  years  okl,  when  he  went  to  Carleton, 
city  of  -St.  John,  where  he  pursued  his  studies 
for  a  while.  On  his  return  home  lie  shipped 
before  the  mast  as  a  sailor,  and  during  his  life 
on  the  ocean  made  many  voyages  to  foreign 
countries,  going  the  latter  [lart  of  the  time  as 
mate  of  the  vessel.  Twice  he  suffered  ship- 
wreck, once  off  the  coast  of  the  West  Indies 
anil  once  on  the  American  coast.  After  these 
hard  experiences  Mr.  Wright  decided  that 
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better  prepare  himself  for  his  future  career  he 
entered  the  college  at  Wolfville,  N.S. ,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1878.  He  subse- 
ciuently  taufjht  school  one  term  in  Hillsboro 
and  a  year  in  Hopewell,  when  he  resijjned  to 
accept  in  1879  his  present  ])osition  as  Secre- 
tary and  Treasurer  of  the  county,  with  his 
office  at  Hopewell  Cajie,  the  shire  town. 
His  lonfi;  term  of  service  in  this  capacity  is 
speak inj;- evidence  of  the  ability  and  faitiiful- 
ness  with  which  he  has  discharged  his  various 
official  duties.  He  is  also  Deputy  Registrar 
of  Deeds,  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  I'arish 
Courts  Commissioner.  l''raternally,  he  is  a 
member  and  the  financial  secretary  of 
Demoiselle  Court,  I.  O.  R,  No.  1 54O,  of 
Hopewell. 

On  October  1,  1883,  Mr.  Wright  married 
Sadie  Hurgess,  of  Nova  Scotia.  They  iiave 
had  si.^  children,  of  whom  five  are  living; 
namely,  Mary  ]•;. ,  Maggie  C. ,  Rufus  S. , 
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ANIi:i,  JORDAN,  O.C,  was  born 
J,  ■  in  the  city  of  St.  John,  N.H.,  on 
July  31,  1845,  and  was  a  son  of 
Daniel  and  Isabella  (W'ilmot)  Jordan.  His 
ancestors  on  his  father's  side  were  natives  of 
lulinburgh,  Scotland,  who  came  out  and  set- 
tled in  America,  and  subscciucntly  came  to 
Nijw  lirunswick  with  the  Loyalists  in  1783; 
and  on  his  mother's  siilc  one  branch  of  his  an- 
cestors were  of  direct  descent  from  tiie  "men  of 
the  'Mayflower.'"  Mr.  Jordan's  father  was 
born  in  the  city  of   St.  John   in    1798.      After 


obtaining  a  common-school  education,  he  en- 
tered into  mercantile  life,  at  which  he  re- 
mained until  the  i'rovincial  Savings  Hank  was 
established  in  St.  John,  when  he  was  aj)- 
pointed  the  cashier  in  that  institution,  and 
continued  as  such  until  such  bank  became  a 
Dominion  institution  arid  placed  into  the  con- 
trol of  the  Dominion  government.  He  was 
appointed  assistant  receiver-general  under  the 
new  management,  and  remained  in  such  office 
until  his  retirement  in  1870.  He  died  May 
I,  1872.  His  wife,  Isabella,  was  a  native  of 
Kredericton,  in  .said  Province,  and  was  a 
daughter  of  William  Wilmot  and  a  sister  of 
the  Hon.  Lemuel  Allan  Wilmot,  at  one  time 
one  of  the  Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
Province  and  subsequently  the  first  Provincial 
Governor  of  the  Province  under  confederation. 
An  ancestor,  Lemuel  Wilmot,  was  a  Hritish 
officer  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  Isabella 
W'ilmot  Jordan  died  on  Januaiy  3,  1874.  She 
left  her  surviving  son,  Daniel,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  and  one  daughter,  Mrs.  Thomas 
Wilder  Daniel,  widow  of  the  late  T.  W. 
Daniel,  of  St.  John. 

Having  comideted  I'lis  course  in  the  gram- 
mar school  of  St.  John  under  the  late  James 
Patterson,  Ph.D.,  Mr.  Jordan,  at  the  age  of 
seventeen  years,  began  the  study  of  the  law  in 
the  office  of  Mayard  &  Thomson,  was  admitti'd 
an  attorney  in  P'ebruary,  i8f>7,  and  a  barrister 
in  the  following  year.  In  1  ,S68  (.Mr.  Bayard 
having  died)  he  became  a  partner  of  Mr.  .S.  R. 
Thomson,  O.C,  his  former  principal,  and 
continued  as  such  for  several  years.  After 
the  great  fire  in  St.  John  in    1877,  Mr.  Jordan 


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removed  In  Krcdericton.  and  after  success- 
fully practising;  there  for  seventeen  years  re- 
turned to  St.  John,  and  is  now  residing'  i" 
SackviUe,  N.H.,  where  he  is  transact in<,'  a 
hu-f^e  and  lucrative  business.  In  1891  Mr. 
Jor.lan  was  appointed  by  the  Dominion  gov- 
ernment a  (Jueen's  Counsel,  and  in  iHi)9  he 
was  ai>pointed  to  the  same  position  by  the 
Provincial  government.  He  is  president  of 
the  barristers'  Society  of  his  native  Province, 
and  has  been  one  of  its  e.\aminers  for  a  num- 
ber of  years. 

In  December.  1S92.  Mr  J"''<lan  was  mar- 
ried to  Janet  I.  Cummin;;,  of  Fredericton.  a 
daughter  of  the  late  Alexander  Cummintr,  a 
native  of  Scotland. 

Mr.  Jordan  was  made  a  Mason  in  Albion 
Lodge,  and  is  now  Past  Master  of  Hiram 
Lodge,  a  member  of  Carleton  Chapter,  Royal 
Arch  Masons,  and  of  the  St.  John  Command- 
cry  of  Knights  Templar.  He  also  belongs  to 
Graham  Lodge  of  Orangemen,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Scarlet  Chapter;  and  is  Past  Chief 
Ranger  of  Court  MiTn  te,  Independent  Order 
,,|  iM.resters.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jordan  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Presbyterian  church. 


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eral members  are  iirominently  identified 
willr  the  business  interests  of  St.  John, 
is  descended  from  James  Robert  Tapley,  a 
sturdy  mariner  and  Loyalist,  who  was  a  native 
„t  Providence,  K.l.  ^\  lien  a  young  man  he 
was  taken  ill  in  the  city  of  tlork,  Ireland, 
where  he  was  sojourning;  and  prior  to  his  de- 


parture   be    married    a    Miss  O'llrien,  of    that 
place.       Coming  to   New   Urunswick   with   his 
bride,  he  settled   upon  a  tract  of   land    in   Sun- 
bury  County,  where  he  was  engaged  in  farming 
for  the  rest  of  his  life.     James  Robert  Tapley 
died  at  the  age  of  forty-five  years,  and  his  wife 
lived  to  an  advanced  age.      He  was  the  father 
„[  si.\-   children,    namely:  William,   who  went 
to  sea  when  a  young  man,  and  was  never  heard 
from;  John,   who  died   in    Sunbury  County  at 
the  age  of   over   eighty  years;    David;   Ann, 
who  married  John   S.  Hrown,  a   Loyalist,  who 
came    to    New    Brunswick    when    thirty-seven 
years  old,  and   lived  to  he  ninety-four ;  Mary, 
who  married  Joseph  Huswell,  of   Bangor,  Me.  ; 
and    James,    who   was   a    farmer    of    ShelTield, 
N.B.,  and  died  in  Novend)er,   1864. 

David  Tapley  was  born   in   Sunbury  County 
in  1791.      He  was  in  early  life  a  farmer;  and, 
moving  to  St.  John  in  1S47,  he  was  engaged  in 
the  lumi)er  business  until  bis  death,  which  oc- 
curred   November   30,   1.S69.      In  1820  he  mar- 
ried Hannah  P'letcher,  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia. 
She    became    the    mother     of    ten    children, 
namely;    David,    who    died    July    18,    1895; 
John,  a  lumberman,  who  died  in  this  city  Feb- 
ruary 16,   1893;  Jerusha,  who  married  Thomas 
Hagnell,  and  died  July   2^,  1886;  Mary,    who 
died   at   the   age  of   fifteen   years;  Robert,  who 
went  to  Australia   in    1853,  and    is   now  living 
in  New  Zealind;   Archibald  Co(imi)s  Lowell,  a 
prominent   business   man   of   St.    Jolm;   Daniel 
]•'.,  who   is   in   company  with   the   last  named ; 
Hannah,    widow    of     Shadrach     Holly;    Ann, 
widow  of  George  1-'.   Brown,  wiio  died   August 
1,    1897;    and    laizabeth,    who    is    unmarried. 


lilOC.RAPHICAL    REVIKVV 


'I'lie  iiKithcr  (lied  in  iSfif).  David  Tapley, 
tlic  younger,  was  a  nu-nihor  'if  tlie  legisla- 
ture; and  he  alsi)  served  as  a  Magistrate  in 
rortland,  N.  li.  A  sketch  (if  his  life  appears 
ill  tiiis  vdhinie. 

Archibalil  Coonilis  Lowell  Taiiley  married 
luniice  Hrown,  of  St.  John,  N.  H. ,  a  daughter 
(if  John  and  Nancy  (Tapley)  lirown.  Of  this 
union  were  lioin  the  fdlldwiii^-nanied  ciiildien: 
George,  Gaspard,  Helen,  ('JKiiles  H.,  Mari- 
etta, Arthur,  Louise,  Katharine,  and  Margery. 

David  Tapley,  the  elder,  was  deeply  inter- 
ested in  the  temperance  cause  and  a  firm  be- 
liever in  total  abstinence.  Archibald  and 
Daniel  F.  Tapley,  who  now  c(im|)0He  the  lirm 
of  Tapley  l^rotheis,  carr)  on  an  extensive  lum- 
ber business  in  St.  John,  and  also  own  a  line 
of  tug-boats. 


/^3)h()UG1':    n.    dickson    otty, 

\mJ.  barrister-at-law  of  .St.  John,  was 
born  January  \6,  i<S55,  son  of  William 
Arando  Dickson  and  Theresa  Zohieski  Dick- 
son. In  1873  he  assumed  the  additional  sur- 
name of  Otty  under  decree  of  the  .Supreme 
Court  in  ICcpiity,  having  been  adopted  in  in- 
fancy by  his  uncle,  (ieorge  Otty,  for  whom  he 
was  named. 

He  is  a  descendant  of  Josejih  Dickson,  a  na- 
tive of  New  York  State,  born  April  11, 
1750,  who  came  to  New  Hrunswick  with  the 
Loyalists  in  1783.  Josejih  Dickson  was  a 
descendant  of  a  .Scotch  border  family  from 
Ro.\borough,  .Scotland.  His  commission  as 
.Second  Lieutenant,  signed   by  .Sir  Guy  Carle- 


ton  (afterward  Lord  Dorchester),  is  now 
(i.S(j(j)  in  the  possession  of  his  descendant, 
(ieorge  O.  Dickson  Otty.  He  served 
throughout  the  American  Revolution.  After 
coming  to  New  Urunswick  he  settled  in 
Hampton  i'arish.  He  died  in  1840,  and  was 
buried  in  Kingston.  His  wife,  .Susannah,  was 
born  January  13,  1752.  They  had  six  chil- 
dren, namely:  ICstiier,  who  married  Captain 
John  Oldham,  of  the  Royal  Navy;  Joseph, 
who  married  .Sarah  l'"airweather;  .Samuel 
Lockwood,  who  married  Deborah  .Smitii; 
William  Augustus,  born  Decendier  12,  1789, 
who  married  January  24.  1815,  Margaret 
Davis  I'"()wler,  a  daughter  of  Captain  D.  and 
Johanna  (Wolsey)  l-'owler;  Richard  .S.,  who 
married  ICli/abeth  Darling;  and  Maria  .S. , 
who  became  the  wife  of  Thomas  Trenholm. 

William  Augustus  Dickson  succeeded  to  the 
homestead.  He  married  Margaret  I),  b'owler, 
as  above  stated.  His  eldest  son,  Charles 
Theodore,  married  first  Mary  .Snyder,  by  whom 
he  iiad  two  daughters:  Charlotte,  who  married 
J.  H.  Hammond;  and  ICiiza,  who  became  the 
wife  of  Mr.  Justice  I'..  L.  Wetmore  of  the 
.Supreme  Court  of  the  North-west  Territories, 
Canada.  Charles  Theodoie  Dickson  married 
second  Nancy,  daughter  of  Adino  I'addock, 
M.D. 

Richard  .Sylvester,  second  son  of  William 
Augustus  Dickson,  married  Lllen  A.  Hrittain, 
and  their  children  were:  l.e  IJaron,  who  served 
as  a  Lieutenant  in  the  artillery  in  the  I'Y'deral 
army  during  the  American  Civil  War;  Walter 
L.  ;  Jidia;    I'.rnest;    b'rank  ;  and  Arnold. 

William     Arando     Dickson,    third     son     of 


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William  Augustus  Dickson,  born  M.iy  9, 
1819,  marrii'd  August  11,  1842,  Theresa 
Zohicski  P'.arlc,  (lau;;htcr  of  Sylvester  Zobieski 
Marie,  M.D.  Their  children  were:  Sylvester 
/.obicski,  ol  Duneilen,  N.J.  ;  William  Howard; 
Jessie  IC. ;  George  Otty;  John  luiward  ICarle; 
Margaret  Louise;  and  Anne  Lawrence. 

Theresa  Z.  Dickson,  the  wife  of  William 
Arando  Dickson,  was  a  daughter,  as  has  been 
said,  of  Dr.  Sylvester  /.  Larle.  The  latter 
was  a  descendant  of  Ldward  Larle,  who  set- 
tled in  New  Jersey  in  id/^,  in  which  year 
he  purchased  .Senacus  Island,  N.J.,  from  a 
Dutch  patentee.  This  island  is  about  seven 
miles  lon^'  and  from  a  mile  to  a  half-mile 
wide.  It  was  then  said  to  be  "one  of  the 
bravest  plantations  in  New  Jersey."  The  ser- 
vants included  "Christians  and  Negroes." 
In  tiic  thirty-si.Nth  year  of  Charles  II.,  Mr. 
I'ldward  I'^arle,  Colonel  Lewis  Morris,  Cap- 
tain Thomas  Codington,  and  others,  were  ap- 
pointed Justices  of  Peace  for  Hergen  County. 
In  the  commissions  they  were  desired  to  in- 
cpiire  concerning  "all  Murthers,  I'"ellonies,  In- 
chant'"",  Sorceryes,  Magicks,  trespasses,  and 
extortions  whatsoever."  In  1694  ICdward 
Larle  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Dele- 
gates of  New  Jersey,  and  in  iri9.S  was  speaker 
pro  tem. 

His  son  Ldward  married  I'ebruary  13,  ifj.SS, 
Alice  Vreelandt.  lie  was  appointed  High 
Sheriff  of  I?ergen  Ciounty,  New  Jersey,  Octo- 
ber, 1692.  His  children  were:  ICdward, 
Marmaduke,  John,  Hannah,  William,  Alice, 
Thomasia,  Philip,  Theodosia,  .Sylvester,  aiul 
Nathaniel. 


Sylvester  Karle,  above  mentioned,  married 
Mathilda,  grand-daughter  of  Alberdt  .Saborow- 
ski,  who  emigrated  from  Poland  in  i662. 
Their  children  were:  Christina,  IClsie,  Sophia, 
John,  Hannah,  Justus,  I'lli/abcth,  and  l-^d- 
ward. 

Justus  l'"arle,  son  of  the  above-named  .Syl- 
vester, was  born  August  19,  1749.  He  was 
commissioned  as  Lieutenant  of  Third  Mattal- 
ion,  .Skinner's  Brigade,  during  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  His  commission  (signed  by  .Sir 
Henry  Clinton)  is  now,  1S99,  in  possession  of 
George  O.  Dickson  Otty.  He  came  to  Grand 
Point,  (jueens  County,  N.H.,  with  the  Loyal- 
ists in  17SV  Justus  Ivirle  married  .Septem- 
ber 6,  177S,  Anne  Lawrence,  daughter  of 
Colonel  Richard  Lawrence,  of  Richmond 
Comity,  .Staten  Island,  N.  Y.  Colonel  Law- 
rence, who  was  an  officer  in  thi'  Loyalist 
army,  after  the  Revolutionary  War  went  to 
luigland,  where  lie  died  at  Mottingham,  Kent, 
May  25,  17S9,  and  was  buried  at  Lltliam. 
The  children  of  Justus  and  Anne  Larle  were 
as  follows:  Richard  Lawrence;  .Sylvester 
/.obieski;  John,  who  was  a  member  of  the 
Legislative  Council  of  New  Hruiiswick;  Mary; 
and  .Sophia  Matilda. 

Sylvester  Zobieski  I'larle,  son  of  the  above- 
named  Justus,  was  born  March  16,  1791,  and 
studied  medicine  in  New  York  City.  While 
there  the  War  of  1S12  broke  out,  and  all 
Hritish  subjects  were  temporarily  ortlered  to 
go  si.\ty  miles  from  headquarters.  Mr.  I'!arle 
thereupon  went  to  Poughkeepsie,  and  there 
met  Maria  Hughson,  whom  he  married  De- 
cember  9,     1813.       After    his    graduatiim    he 


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settled  ill  Kiiit;.s  Cininty,  Now  Uriinswick, 
aiu!  tluTc  |)riictisc(l  his  profess  inn.  Ho  rep- 
resented Kii);;s  Count)'  in  tiie  I, e;;! slat  11  re  lor 
many  years.  Mis  children  were:  William 
Hn^h.son,  now  oi  KutherlDrd,  N.J.:  Justus; 
John;  I'Vederiek;  'I'here.sa  /nhjeski;  and 
i;ii/a.  'Ihensa  married  William  Arando 
Diekson,  as  :d)(>ve  stated;  :ind  Mli/a  married 
(leortje    Otly,    .son    ot    CajUain    Allen    t)tty, 

Captain  Allen  Otty,  K.N.,  was  a  son  of 
William  and  Sarah  (Alien)  Otty.  lie  .saw 
much  service  in  the  Napoleonic  wars,  and 
also  nerved  against  the  United  States  in  the 
War  of  iSij.  He  marrie<l  l^li/aln'th  Crook- 
sh;ink,  and  their  children  were:  Andrew,  who 
was  Colonel  and  Mrijjade  Major  of  the  eighth 
military  district,  Canada;  George,  who  mar- 
ried i;ii/.a  I'larle;  Allen  C,  who  married 
I'h(i.'l)e  I'almer;  Thomas,  who  was  a  Lieuten- 
ant in  the  Koyal  Navy,  and  was  lost  in  the 
wreck  of  "II.  M.  S.  Avenger"  in  the  Medi- 
terranean Sea;  Catherine,  who  married  .Syl- 
vester luirle,  Jr.,  M.I).  ;  Henry  1'.,  who  mar- 
ried Henrietta  Howe;  Robert,  who  was  Major 
and  Adjutant  in  the  Eighth  Princess  Louise 
Hussars,  and  who  married  Hannah  llallett; 
John  McGill;  .md  William,  who  married  Sarah 
Ingledew. 


^sJY^^'^"'--'^  I'' 1, 1; MING,  late  proprietor  of 
the  l'h(eni.\  h'oundry,  .St.  John,  was 
horn  in  this  city,  December   31,   1841, 

and  died  on  October   10,    1  899.      He  was  a  son 

of    George    and    Barbara    (Massie)    Fleming. 

His   father,    who   was   born    in    Dysart,    Fife- 


shire,  .Scotland,  in  the  year  1800,  learned  the 
machinist's  trade  in  the  old  country,  ;ind. 
emigrating  to  New  Brunswick  when  a  young 
man,  was  for  a  short  time  employed  at  the  old 
Albion  id.il  mine. 

The  I'ho'iii.v  l''ntmdry  was  established  in 
'•"^.^S  hy  (leorge  h'leming  in  company  with 
Thomas  Harlow  and  John  .Stew;irt.  Tlu'  orig- 
inal lirm  was  later  succeeded  by  that  of  l''leni- 
ing  &  Humbert,  and  in  18^)9  George  l'"leming 
purchased  his  |)artner's  interest.  He  ad- 
mitted his  sons,  J:unes  and  William,  to  part- 
nershi[)  the  following  year;  and  he  was  ac- 
tively connected  with  the  business  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  i.S8fj.  He  was  one 
of  the  organizers  of  the  Mechanics'  Institute. 
In  his  religious  belief  he  was  a  l'resbyteri;in, 
and  was  a  Deaco.i  of  .St.  Daviil's  Church.  He 
married  Harbara  Massie,  a  native  of  (ilasgow, 
Scotland.  She  came  to  this  Province  with 
her  brother,  Alexander  Massie,  who  was  lor 
many  years  a  well  known  hatter  in  .St.  John. 
George  FMeming  was  the  father  of  eight  chil- 
dren, livi' of  whom  lived  to  matmity,  namely: 
William,  who  died  in  1894;  James,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch;  Helen  J.,  wife  of  Nixon 
Moore,  of  Lynn,  Mass.;  Captain  Robert  II., 
who  was  in  the  liay  service  on  the  steamer 
"Monticello"  for  many  years;  and  CJharles, 
who  died  in  1877.     The  nKJther  died  in  i88y. 

James  l'"leming  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years 
entered  his  father's  foundry  as  an  apjirentice, 
ancl  after  completing  the  customary  initiatory 
term  of  service  he  was  em|)liiyed  for  the  suc- 
ceeding ten  years  as  a  journeyman.  As  above 
mentioned,  he  and   his  brother  William   were 


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atlmittcd  to  partnership  by  their  lather  in 
1870.  AftiT  his  l.ithor's  death  Janus  l*"lem- 
ing  purciiased  the  interests  of  the  otiier  heirs, 
and  carried  on  under  its  present  name  of  the 
i'linni\  i'"()iindry  wiiat  is  now  tiie  oldest  indus- 
try of  its  kind  in  tlie  eity,  l)y  his  ai)ility  and 
prr);;ressive  tendency  maintaining,'  its  high 
re|)iitali(in  as  an  iron-wori\in};  estal)iisiiment. 
'I'he  plant  still  occupies  its  original  site  on 
Pond  Street. 

In  \H66  Mr.  I'lemin^  married  Miss  I'-liza- 
beth  Louisa  Smith,  (lau^,diter  of  \V.  \'.  Smith, 
a  native  of  New  Urunswick  and  a  resilient  of 
St.  John.  Mr.  I-Mcmin;,'  is  survived  by  his 
wife  and  four  children  :  George  Warren;  Her- 
bert James;  Mary  Massie,  wife  of  William  11. 
Nase,  of  indiantown;  and  Walter  MacRae 
Fleming.  The  sons  have  succeeded  to  the 
business  in  which  they  were  engaged  with 
their  father. 

Mr.  I'leming  was  a  member  of  the  .St.  An- 
drew's .Society.  In  religion  a  Presbyterian, 
he  attended  St.  Stephen's  Church,  ami  served 
as  a  trustee. 


[OIIN  NIVICN,  harbor  master  and  ship- 
ping master  for  the  port  of  Newcastle, 
N.  H.,  is  a  native  of  .Scotland.  lie 
was  Ixirn  on  August  6,  1821S,  in  the  parish  of 
Dunnottar,  Kincardineshire,  where  his  father, 
Colin  Niven,  was  a  prominent  farmer. 

Colin  Ni\en  and  his  wife,  Mary  Rankin, 
with  six  children,  three  hoys  and  three  girls, 
emigrated  in  1839  and  settled  at  North  Vsk, 
Miramichi,  Northumberland  County,  N.H.     A 


few  years  later  the  family  removed  to  New- 
castle, where  the  father  died  in  1869.  John 
was  the  third-born  child.  Mis  brothers  :ind 
sisters  who  came  to  America  with  their 
parents  were:  James,  (irace,  l'',li/abeth,  Ann, 
and  Colin.  Three  other  sisters,  IClice, 
Agnes,  and  Mary  —  older  than  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  —  died  in  .Scothuul  and  were 
liurird  there. 

Colin  Niven  was  sent  to  America  by  the 
Duchess  of  Leeds,  who  w;is  an  American  lady 
from  Baltimore,  a  member  of  the  Carroll 
family,  from  which  came  Charles  Carroll,  one 
of  the  signers  of  tlu'  Declaration  of  huUiJcn- 
dencc.  The  duchess  had  furnished  Mr.  Niven 
'  with  letters  of  introduction  to  |)romini'nt 
people  in  the  .State  of  Illinois,  e.\pecting  him 
to  settK' there;  but  he  allowed  himself  to  bo 
persuaded  by  others  to  come  to  Canada 
instead. 

John  *iiven  learned  the  trade  of  tanning 
and  currying  in  Newcastle,  and  in  1851  went 
to  .Scotland  and  worked  in  l-Minburgh,  ac- 
quainting himself  more  thoroughly  with  the 
various  processes  of  the  art  of  converting 
skins  into  leather.  Returning  to  Newcistle, 
he  began  business  for  himself  as  a  tanner 
and  currier,  and  carried  it  on  for  thirty 
years.  In  \^('>2  he  was  appointed  a  Justice  of 
the  Peace,  and  in  1872  he  went  to  .Scotland 
as  emigration  agent  for  the  Dominion  of  Can- 
ada, lie  was  appointed  harbor  master  for  the 
port  of  Newcastle  in  1873,  police  magistrate 
for  the  town  of  Newcastle  in  1877,  and  ship- 
ping master  in  1893.  All  these  olFiccs  he 
holds  at   the  present  time  (September,   1899). 


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He  is  chairman  of  the  Hoan!  of  Trustees  of 
St.  James'  i'resbyterian  Church,  aud  is  presi- 
dent )f  the  llij;hlantl  Society  of  New  Hruns- 
wick  at  Miramichi. 

Mr.  Niven  married  in  i8f)5  Jean  Harris, 
daughter  of  (ieorge  Ha-ris,  l-^sq.,  who  came  to 
Xew  Hrunswick  from  I'ictou,  N.S. ,  in  1824. 
Mrs.  Niven  was  horn  in  (juel)CC,  and  is  of 
Scotch  descent.  1  Icr  ancestors  'cmovcd  from 
Pennsylvania,  their  orii^iiial  iiome  in  Amer- 
ica, to  Nova  .'icotia  in  1775,  at  the  outbreak 
of  tlie  Revolutionary  War,  and  were  amcn^- 
the  earlier  settlers  of  I'ictou.  llcr  paternal 
grandfather,  Thomas  Harris,  was  Sheriff  of 
I'ictou  County  for  twenty  years,  and  the  office 
has  been  held  by  members  of  the  family  ever 
since  the  county  was  organized.  Mrs. 
Xivcn's  mother,  whose  naniC  in  maidenhood 
was  Catherine  Hay,  was  tiie  daughter  of  .\n- 
dre"'  1  Lay  and  a  native  of  Miramichi.  Andrew 
I!..y  was  born  in  Scotland,  and  his  wife,  whose 
niaiilen  name  was  Laing,  was  also  of  a  Scotch 
family.  11  i^  mother  was  a  .Stuart.  Mr.  and 
and  Mrs.  Niven  have  no  cliiidren. 


(^AMlfS  l'.  IIA.MH.TON,  proprietor  of 
,^'1  llamilton's  Mills,  an  e.Ntensive  lumber 
manufacturer,  St.  John,  was  born  in 
I'ortlanil,  Me.,  in  October,  1839.  He  is  the 
son  of  Charles  llaniilton,  the  veteran  lumber 
manufacturer,  who  also  is  a  n.itive  of  Port- 
land, and  wa:i  born  in  January,   1813. 

At  the  age  of  fourteen  Charles  Hamilton 
entered  the  lumber  business  o;,  the  Saco 
River,  and  later  became  .1  prominent  saw-mill 


owner.  He  afterward  operated  mills  on  the 
Androscoggin  and  St.  Croi.\  Rivers,  and  in 
1870  he  purchased  the  I'etrie  Mills  in  St. 
John.  He  carried  on  a  large  business  for  a 
period  of  twenty-live  years,  the  greater  jiart  of 
the  time  being  in  partniMship  with  his  son; 
and  after  the  mills  were  burned,  in  1892,  he 
relinciuished  the  cares  of  business.  Charles 
Hamilton  retired  from  the  lundiur  n;  niufaclur- 
ing  industry  after  ha\  ing  followed  it  continu- 
ously for  si.xty-eight  year.s,  and  well  ileserves 
the  title  of  veteran,  which  has  been  ajii)lied 
to  him.  He  is  still  vigorous  and  active,  both 
physically  and  menially,  and  bids  fair  to 
mingle  with  his  numerous  friends  anil  ac- 
quaintances for  n)any  years  to  come.  He 
m.irried  Miss  Adeline  Dunn,  of  Portland, 
.Me.,  daughter  of  Moses  Dunn.  Her  father 
was  the  rejire;  entative  of  a  highly  rei)Utahle 
New  I'aigland  family.  He  lived  to  be  ninety- 
four  years  old.  Mrs.  Hamilton  died  in  1878, 
leaving  one  son,  her  only  child,  James  K.,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch. 

James  \'.  Hamilton  entered  the  tlour  and 
grain  business  in  Portland  when  he  was  a 
young  man,  and  followed  it  until  i8()i. 
Meing  then  appointed  Paymaster  in  the  United 
.States  Navy,  he  served  u]ion  the  Mississippi 
River  for  three  years  during  the  (Mvil  War, 
and  was  afterward  staticned  on  the  Paeihc 
coast,  where  he  remained  about  ten  years. 
Resigning  his  commission  in  1874,  he  joined 
his  father  in  St.  John,  and  continued  with 
him  as  a  partner  until  the  destruction  of  the 
plant  in  1892,  as  mentioned  above.  He  bas 
rebuilt  the  mills  since  that  time,  and   for  the 


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past  four  years  he  has  conilucted  business 
alone. 

In  1.S72  Mr.  Hamilton  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Abl)ie  Russell,  of  Portland.  They 
have  one  son,  Charles  Russell  Hamilton. 

Mr.  Hamilton  possesses  the  confidence  and 
good  will  of  his  business  associates  in  his 
adopted  city,  and  is  highly  esteemed  by  a 
large  circle  of  friends  in  the  United  States. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  and  be- 
longs to  Albion  Lodge,  No.   i,  St.  John. 


^OHN  MKXZIK.S,  of  Newcastle,  in- 
spector under  the  Canadian  Temper- 
ance Act,  was  born  in  Miramichi, 
Northumberland  County,  N.l?.,  in  1835,  son 
of  John  and  Mary  Ann  (Forsythe)  Menzies. 
His  father,  a  native  of  Dumfriesshire,  Scot- 
land, came  to  New  ikunswick  in  i<S23,  and 
settled  on  the  north-west  branch  of  the  Mi- 
ramichi  River. 

For  some  years  he,  the  elder  John  Menzies, 
was  engaged  in  the  ship-building  industry. 
Later  he  gave  his  attention  to  agriculture  and 
to  lumbering  during  the  winter  season,  which 
occup;  tions  he  followed  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  He  also  had  a  mail  contract  when  the 
mail  was  first  established  between  Redbank 
and  Newcastle.  He  married  Mary  Ann  For- 
sythe, daughter  of  Robert  I''orsythe,  a  Loyal- 
ist, who  went  to  New  Brunswick  from  the 
Fnglish  colonies  in  the  South  in  i/iSj,  at  the 
close  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  set- 
tled on  the  St.  John  River.  They  were  the 
[Kueiits    of    eight    sons    and    four    daughters, 


namely:  Jane,  now  deceased,  who  was  the 
wife  of  Charlc-  Summers;  I'^lizabeth,  who 
married  Charles  Summers  after  the  death  of 
her  sister;  John,  whose  name  appears  at  the 
head  of  this  sketch;  Robert,  a  resident  of  the 
State  of  New  \'ork;  Catherine,  now  deceased, 
who  was  the  wife  of  John  I-'orsythe;  Annie, 
wife  of  lulward  Carleton,  of  Hoston ;  Peter, 
who  is  deceased;  Archibald,  who  resides  on 
the  old  homestead;  Charles,  who  is  deceased; 
David,  Albert,  and  William,  all  three  of 
whom  are  residing  in  California.  John  Men- 
zies, Sr.,  the  father,  died  in  i.S/S,  at  the  age 
of  si.xty-seven  years.  His  wife,  who  survived 
him  nine  years,  died  at  the  age  of  si.xty-eight, 
in  1887. 

John  Menzies,  second,  was  reared  on  his 
father's  farm,  and  educated  in  the  district 
school.  When  a  young  man  he  went  to  the 
United  States,  where  for  two  years  he  was  en- 
gaged in  lumbering,  spending  at  this  occupa- 
tion one  year  in  Maine  and  one  in  Pennsyl- 
vania. Subsequently  returning  home,  he 
engaged  in  farming  in  his  native  province, 
and  also  for  several  years  he  shippeil  fish  from 
Newcastle  to  the  United  States,  doing  a  large 
business  in  this  line.  Then,  in  company  with 
A.  Adams,  he  engaged  in  railroad  contract 
work  for  the  local  and  Dominion  government. 
.Subseciuently  he  carried  on  a  lumber  business 
until  1892,  when  he  was  ajipointed  iiispector 
under  the  Canadian  Ti;mperance  Act,  which 
position  he  has  since  filled  most  capably. 

Mr.  Menzies  was  married  in  July,  1855,  to 
Miss  Barbara  ?TcKay,  a  daughter  of  Robert 
McKay,  who  was  a  desccntlant  of  one  of  the 


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early  Loyalist  settlers  of  the  jirovince.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Mcnzies  are  the  parents  of  four  chil- 
dren, namely:  Mary  Jane,  the  widow  of 
George  Rogers;  Allen,  a  resident  of  the  State 
of  Nebraska;  lulward,  who  resides  at  the 
homestead;  and  Harbara,  who  is  the  wife  of 
Watson  Shepparil,  of  the  State  of  Nebraska. 
Mr.  Menzies  belongs  to  the  Order  of  Orange- 
men, Lodge  No.  47,  of  Newcastle.  Politi- 
cally, he  is  a  Liberal. 


ILLIAM     KILMY    RKVXOLDS. 

The  St.  John  suspension  bridge  is 
unic|ue  amoig  great  public  structures  in  hav- 
ing been  originated  by  one  man,  primarily  as 
a  matter  of  personal  cunvenience  and  at  his 
own  financial  risk.  That  man  was  the  late 
William  Kilby  Reynolds,  who  was  also  the 
originator  of  the  St.  John  .Street  Railway  and 
the  .Shore  Line  Railway,  that  connects  St. 
John  with  St.  .Stejihcn,  on  the  borders  of 
Maine,  and  is  likely  to  be  the  slKjrt  route 
between  the  Maritime  Provinces  and  Poslon. 
Mr.  Reynolds  was  a  native  of  Pembroke, 
Me.  lie  was  desccndeil  from  Robert  Reynolds, 
one  of  the  early  Pilgrims  who  sougiit  a  home 
in  New  I-lngland,  wIk  was  an  inhabitant  of 
Boston  in  1632,  was  a  freeman  in  the  year 
1634,  and  died  in  Boston  in  April,  1659. 
Robert  Reynolds  owned  the  lot  on  Milk  Street 
now  marked  as  the  "liirthplace  of  l'"ranklin  "  ; 
and  it  was  in  the  Rc\nolds  house,  while  Josiah 
P'ranklin  was  the  tenant  of  Robert's  son  Na- 
thaniel, that  Heiijamin  P'ranklin  was  born  in 
1706.     The  names  of  descendants  of  Robert 


Reynolds  are  found  as  active  jiarticipants  in 
King'  Phili])'s  War,  the  lievolutionary  War, 
the  War  of  1812,  and  the  great  Civil  War. 

Xathaniel  Reynolds,  the  grandfather  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  was  living  at  Fort  Cum- 
berland, N.  S.,  when  the  Revolutionary  War 
began;  but,  sympalhi/.ing  with  the  revolted 
colonies,  he  espoused  their  cause,  removing 
bis  family  to  Maine,  where  they  settled  at 
Pembroke.  His  son  Jonathan  married  Persis 
Wilder;  and  one  of  the  sons  b)' this  marriage 
was  William  Kilby,  who  was  born  at  Pem- 
broke, July  5,  1810.  Owing  to  tiie  condition 
of  that  part  of  the  coimtry  in  those  times,  the 
boy  received  a  very  ordinary  education;  but 
he  early  showed  himself  to  be  jiossessed  of 
great  natural  ability.  He  was  a  born  me- 
chanic, with  remarkable  inventive  and  con- 
structive talents;  and  he  was  prompt  with  new 
ideas  in  whatever  he  undertook.  \\'hcn  a  mere 
youth  he  carried  out  the  largest  building  con- 
tracts in  that  part  of  Maine,  including  some 
large  churches  and  the  stone  dam  at  the  Pem- 
broke Iron  Works.  Of  regular  habits,  be  .soon 
acquired  the  means  to  enable  bim  to  engage  in 
more  exicnsive  ojierations;  antl  in  the  year 
1844  he  [)inchaseil  tiie  large  mill  ]iroperty  at 
Lepreau,  \.\\.,  removing  with  his  wife  and 
family  to  the  city  of  St.  John.  He  bad  then 
been  eleven  years  married  to  Caroline  M.  l)e- 
lancy,  of  Londonderry,  X.S.,  a  grand-daughter 
of  James  Woodman,  one  of  the  well-known  pre- 
Loyalist  settlers  of  liie  townshi])  of  Conway, 
St.  John,  whose  lands  were  in  the  vicinity  of 
what  is  now  the  village  of  l'"air\ille. 

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Mr.  Reynolds  to  speiul  Sunday  with  his  family, 
driving  to  I.cprcaii,  a  distance  (if  twenty-five 
miles,  early  in  the  week,  and  returning  to  the 
city  (in  Saturday  night.  As  his  return  was 
frequently  at  an  hour  too  late  to  cross  the  har- 
hor  by  the  ferry,  he  would  he  eonijielled  to 
lease  his  horse  in  t'arletoii  and  make  the  |)as- 
sage  in  a  small  boat.  The  necessity  for  a 
bridge  across  the  river  had  long  been  felt;  but 
two  attempts  that  had  been  made  in  this  direc- 
tion had  been  unsuccessful,  and  in  I<S49  the 
problem  was  still  to  be  sol  veil. 

One  stormy  .Saturday  night  in  the  early  part 
of  the  year  last  named,  Mr.  Reynokls  was 
crossing  the  iiarbor  in  a  row-boat  when  the 
thought  of  a  l)ridge  came  to  his  mind  witli 
special  force,  and  refused  to  he  driven  away. 
"Is  it  not  ]).)ssible  to  ba\e  a  l)ridge.'"  he 
continued  to  ask  himself  man\- times  that  night 
and  the  ne.\t  da}'.  Marly  Monday  morning  he 
made  a  visit  to  the  sliores  and  hills  around  the 
mouth  of  the  river  St.  John.  When  he  reached 
Sjilit  Rock,  at  the  I''alls,  be  studied  the  situa- 
tion for  a  few  moments,  and  exclaimeil,  "This 
is  the  place  for  a  bridge;  and,  with  the  hel[)  of 
(lod.  I  will  build  one  !  " 

This  was  tlie  beginning  of  a  daring  enter- 
prise. A  comparative  siianger  in  the  country, 
a  man  of  very  motlerate  nieans,  but  armed  with 
a  most  resolute  nature  and  a  wonderful  faith, 
be  undertook  to  build  what  was  to  be  one  of 
the  largest  suspension  briilges  in  the  world, 
taking  the  whole  risk  and  responsibility  upon 
himself.  I'rocin'ing  n  charter  from  the  Legis- 
lature, be  opened  a  stock  list.  In  the  agree- 
menl    with    the   stockholders   he   untlertook    to 


build  a  suspension  bridge  at  a  cost  of  eighty 
thousand  dollars;  but  not  one  dollar  of  the 
money  was  to  be  paid  in  to  him  until  the 
britlge  was  completed,  tested,  and  jiassed  by 
the  government  engineer.  I'hun  one-half  was 
to  be  jiaid,  and  the  remainder  in  three,  six, 
nine,  and  twelve  months.  If  he  failed  to  carry 
out  his  contract,  the  stockh<dders  could  lose 
nothing.  Kvctt  under  these  extraordinary  con- 
ditions, it  was  hard  to  get  people  to  give  the 
sanction  of  their  names;  anil,  when  the  first 
stock  list  was  closed,  the  amount  not  taken  up, 
and  therefore  assumed  by  Mr.  Reynolds,  was 
thirty-three  thousand  five  hundred  anil  eighty 
dollars,  or  considerably  more  than  one-third  of 
the  total  ca[)ital.  Then  the  work  was  pushed 
forward,  with  Edward  W.  .Serrell,  of  New 
York,  as  the  engineer.  The  bridge  was  opened 
on  the  ;  rst  day  of  January,  1853,  and  ]iaid  a 
ili\  idenil  of  six  per  cent,  from  the  start.  It  is 
now  owned  by  the  Provincial  govermnent,  and 
it  has  been  well  termed  the  monument  of  the 
man  by  whom  it  was  undertaken  and  com- 
jileted. 

In  the  year  1S54  Mr.  Reynolds  built  on  his 
property  at  I.eiireau  a  water-power  saw-mill, 
which  proved  to  I)e  the  finest  and  fastest  in 
New  Urunswick.  .Se\eral  mechanical  ideas 
first  used  in  it  ha\e  since  become  conmion  to 
all  mills.  'I'his  mill  was  leased  by  King  & 
(jibsoii  and  latci-  by  Alexander  (iibson  alone; 
and  it  was  there  he  laid  the  foundation  of  the 
great  fortune  the  results  of  which  are  seen 
at  Marysville,  opposite  l-'redericton.  In  the 
meanwhile,  Mr.  Revnolds  inxested  largely  in 
other  enterprises,  one  of    which  was  the  jnir- 


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chase  of  scvcinl  thousand  acres  of  Xova  Scotia 
gold  fichls,  iiichulinj;  tlie  spot  at  Tangier 
where  the  lirst  discovery  of  gold  was  made  in 
that  jirovince.  y\t  Lepreau,  amonj;  other  works, 
he  had  a  brickyard,  a  s])ool-\vood  factory,  a 
shin^'le  mill,  and  an  axe  and  axle  factory. 
He  also  bnilt  a  vessel.  Hy  some  of  these  en- 
terprises, however,  ho  was  a  loser  to  a  lari,a' 
amount. 

In  1S57  Mr.  Reynolds  undertook  to  build  a 
bridge  across  St.  John  Harbor  by  way  of  Xa\y 
Islantl.  A  survey  was  made,  the  plans  were 
drawn,  and  a  bill  for  the  incorporation  of 
a  company  |)assed  the  House  of  Assembly. 
It  was,  however  defeated  in  the  Legislative 
Council  by  the  influence  of  one  member,  a  St. 
John  property  owner,  who  thouj,dit  it  would 
injure  his  interests.  A  few  years  later  he 
begged  Mr.  Reynolds  to  revive  the  project,  but 
it  was  then  too  late.  Had  Mr.  Reynolds  been 
alloweil  to  proceed,  he  wouki  have  built,  forty 
years  ago,  the  bridge  for  which  the  pcojilc  of 
St.  John  are  clamoring  in  vain  at  the  present 
time. 

In  iSjJ  Mr.  Reynolds  obtained  a  charter  for 
the  Grand  .Southern  Railway  from  St.  John  to 
St.  Stephen  by  the  shore  or  direct  nnite  to  the 
United  States.  This,  ho  believed,  must  in 
time  be  the  great  through  route  to  the  L'nited 
.States.  In  the  following  year  he  banded  over 
the  charter  to  a  company  that  had  been  organ- 
ized, remarking  that  it  had  been  the  dream  of 
his  life  to  see  this  line  through  to  l^oston  and 
Montreal,  and  that  hi'  looked  for  the  day  when 
St.  John  would  be  the  winter  jiort  of  the  Do- 
minion,    '["he  Cirand  Southern  was  completed 


in  1880,  and  is  now  operated  as  the  Shore 
Line  Railwa)'.  In  the  year  1900  legislation 
was  obtained  for  the  construction  of  an  inter- 
national bridge  over  the  river  St.  Croix,  to 
connect  the  .Shore  Line  with  the  Washington 
County  and  Maine  Central  railways,  thus  giv- 
ing a  realization  to  the  dream  of  Mr.  Reynolds 
more  than  a  c|uarter  of  a  century  ago. 

The  first  street  railway  in  .St.  John  was 
originated,  built,  and  at  the  outset  operated  by 
Mr.  Reynolds  in  the  year  1S70.  It  was  a 
horse  railway,  but  it  apjiears  to  have  been 
ahead  of  its  time;  for  the  stock,  of  which  Mr. 
Reyncdds  retained  a  large  amount,  paid  no 
dividends.  The  road  was  oiierated  oidy  a  few- 
years;  but  it  was  uiiiler  its  charter  that  the 
later  street  railway  was  built,  the  evcdution  of 
which  is  the  electric  service  of  to-day. 

Mr.  Reynolds  obtained  ])atents  on  a  number 
of  inventions,  one  of  which  was  a  one-rail 
raihva)'  in  187J,  the  princijde  of  which  has 
been  adopted  by  later  inventors  in  this  line. 
In  his  own  manufacturing  operations  the  labor- 
saving  and  other  devices  that  he  was  continu- 
ally inventing  would  make  a  lengthy  list.  He 
was,  as  has  been  said,  a  natiual  mechanic,  with 
a  quick  eye  for  a  fault  in  any  kind  of  construc- 
tion. When  the  first  sod  of  what  is  now  the 
Intercolonial  Railway  was  turned  at  .St.  John 
in  1853,  there  was  a  grand  ball  in  honor  of  the 
event,  a  building  being  Htted  up  for  the  occa- 
sion. During  the  afternoon  of  that  day  Mr. 
Reynolds  chanced  to  visit  the  building;  and, 
on  looking  at  the  r)rchestra  gallery,  he  saw 
that  it  was  built  on  a  wrong  mechanical  jirin- 
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ill  cliaige,  and  urged  that  fuilhcr  siipixirts  be 
added;  but  the  <;allery  was  allowed  to  remain 
as  it  had  been  designed.  In  the  midst  of  the 
festivities  that  night  the  gallery  fell  with  a 
crash,  killing  one  man,  criiijiling  a  young  lady 
for  life,  and  badly  injuring  others.  The  ad- 
vice of  Mr.  Reynolds  was  remembered  loo  late. 

iMr.  Reynolds  took  little  interest  in  party 
politics,  though  he  was  one  of  the  candidates 
fur  Charlotte  County  on  the  Confederation 
ticket  in  1865,  when  Xcw  lirunswick  rejected 
the  union  scheme.  As  a  citizen  he  took  an 
active  interest  in  a  number  of  institutions  in 
St.  John,  and  was  on  the  executive  boards  of 
the  Mechanics'  Institute,  Or])han  y\slyum, 
Hilile  Societ}-,  Total  Abstinence  Society,  and 
others.  Of  the  old  New  iMigland  stock,  he 
was  a  Congregalionalist  in  religious  belief, 
and  was  for  many  years  a  Deacon  in  the  Union 
Street  Church. 

During  the  last  ten  years  of  his  life  Mr. 
Reynolds  resided  at  I.epreau,  where  he  died 
on  March  9,  1882,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two. 
lie  had  lived  to  see  the  completion  of  the  rail- 
way which  he  had  projected  between  St.  John 
and  St.  Stephen,  and  his  body  was  the  fust  to 
be  carried  over  it  for  burial,  the  familv  tomb 
being  at  Fernhill,  St.  John.  His  widow  .sur- 
vives him  at  an  advanced  age. 


l\CA^/IlJJAM  KILI?Y  REYNOLDS,  sec 

ond,  son  of  the  late  William  Kilby 
Reynolds,  is  a  n,iti\e  of  .St.  John,  ami  was 
educated  at  the  grammar  school  and  pri\-ate 
educational  institutions  of  that  citv.      lie  stud- 


ied law  in  the  office  of  the  then   leading  firm 
of  Clray  &  Kaye,  c(im[)osed  of  Colonel  the  Hon. 


John  Hamilton  C.ray,  M.l'. ,  subse(|uently  one 
of  the  Judges  of  the  Sujireme  Court  of  British 
Columbia,  and  James  J.  Kaye,  one  of  the 
foremost  solicitors,  conveyancers,  and  equity 
lawyers  of  the  period.  Mr.  Reynolds  had 
little  love  for  the  law,  however,  and  subse- 
quently abandoned  it  for  journalism,  in  which, 
with  other  literary  occupations,  he  has  been 
engaged  since  1872.  His  first  experience  was 
as  a  contributor  to  the  A'cri'  Doniinii'ii,  an<.  le 
entered  regularly  into  newsjiaper  work  as  one 
of  the  .staff  of  the  St.  John  Ihii/y  ^^,■u^s.  Ik- 
was  later  connected  with  the  St.  John  Tribinic 
and  tile  n,uly  Tt/cxm/'/i,  leaving  the  latter  in 
1876  to  edit  the  Sackville  /!oni<irr.  During 
1882  he  was  engaged  in  special  editorial  ser- 
vice for  the  Moncton  Daily  Times.  In  18S3 
he  went  to  Hoston,  and  during  the  year  1884 
was  a  descriptive  writer  and  .staff  correspondent 
of  the  Hoston  (ilobt'.  During  a  portion  of  1S85 
he  was  editor  of  the  Troy  (\.\'. )  Ihuly  and 
Sunday  Xcxvs ;  and  in  the  autumn  of  that  year 
he  returned  to  Hoston,  where  he  became  con- 
nected with  the  Hoston  Post,  of  which  pajier 
he  was  night  editor  until  his  return  to  New 
Brunswick  in  1886.  In  1889,  in  company 
with  J.  S.  Knowles,  he  established  the  Grip- 
sack, a  monthly  publication  devoted  to  travel; 
and  (luring  1890  he  was  the  editor  of  .St.  John 
Proi^irss,  then  in  its  early  \ears.  At  a  later 
date  he  contributed  a  number  of  historical  and 
other  .sketches  to  its  columns.  Since  his  re- 
turn from  Hoston  he  has  had  no  connection 
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writer  for  the  />ii/7r  Tclcgraf'h  during;  the  l)o- 
niinidii  election  campaigns  of  I1S91  and  109^ 
and  as  a  writer  of  local  historical  sketches  for 
some  montlis  after  the  close  of  the  latter  cam- 
paigii. 

In  July,  1S9.S,  Mr.  Reynolds  began  the  ]nil)- 
lication  of  the  ,\Vu'  A'/v/w.sti'/V^'  Magazine,  a 
monthly  devoted  to  the  histoiy  of  the  Maritime 
I'rovinces,  of  wliich  i)iil)lication  he  continued 
to  he  the  editor  and  proprietor  until  his  aj)- 
poinlmeiit  to  the  pui)lic  service  and  removal 
from  St.  John  made  it  necessary  to  relinquish 
to  other  hands  what  had  been  a  labor  of  love 
to  him. 

While  Mr.  Re\iiolds  had  taken  an  active 
part  as  a  writer  in  the  general  elections  of  re- 
cent years,  he  had  no  personal  political  ambi- 
tions; but  in  the  Provincial  election  of  Feb- 
ruary, I1S99,  he  was  selected  as  one  of  the 
candidates  on  the  governnieiit  ticket  foi'  the 
city  of  .St.  John.  The  result  of  his  candidature 
was  the  consolidation  of  the  Catholic  ^'otc  for 
the  ticket  and  the  election  of  his  three  col- 
leagues in  what  had  been  for  \ears  an  opposi- 
tion stronghold.  His  colleagues,  however, 
could  not  bring  to  him  a  support  such  as  lie 
brought  to  them  ;  and  he  was  defeated  liy  the 
strongest  candidate  of  the  ojiposition  by  a  nar- 
row margin  of  twenty-three  votes  in  a  total  of 
thirty-si.N  hundred. 

Mr.  Reynolds  had  for  nian\-  years  prepared 
the  guide  books  and  tourist  literature  of  C!ana- 
dian  goverunienl  railways;  and  in  April,  1899, 
he  was  ajipointed  press  antl  advertising  agent 
of  the  Intercolonial  Railway,  with  headquarters 
at  the  general  offices  in  Moncton,  in  the  duties 


of  which  ])osition  he  was  engaged  until  the 
close  of  the  year,  when  he  resigned  in  the 
interests  of  the  constituents  who  supported  him 
in  the  I'rovincial  election.  Returning  to  St. 
John,  he  established  '/'/w  /■'irciiiait,  a  non-parti- 
zan  paper  in  the  interests  of  the  Cat  Ik  die  peopK', 
and  in  May,  1900,  transferred  it  to  the  JMce- 
nian  Publishing  Conipan\',  he  continuing  as 
editor  until  his  retuin  to  the  govermnent  rail- 
way service  later  in  the  same  year.  Among 
much  other  literaiy  work  which  he  has  doiu'  in 
the  past,  he  has  dealt  extensively  with  the  re- 
sources of  his  native  ])rovince  in  various  pub- 
lications. Among  those  of  recent  date  are  a 
guide  to  the  big  ganie  resorts  of  New  Pruns- 
wick,  issued  by  the  I'mvincial  government, 
and  the  official  descrijilion  of  New  ]?riinswick 
in  "Canaila  from  Ocean  to  (Jcean"  (Toronto, 
1899).  In  addition  to  a  number  of  campaign 
pamphlets,  he  has  written  and  i>ublished  "Old- 
time  Tragedies"  (1S95)  and  a  sketch  of  the 
life  of  the  Rev.  William  Donald,  IJ.l).  (1S98), 
imblished  by  the  faniil)-  of  that  clergyman  for 
private  circulation.  He  has  now  ready  for  the 
press  a  book  entitled  "True  Pirate  Stories, " 
and  is  gathering  material  foi-  a  history  of  St. 
John  and  a  "History  nf  the  Cathidic  Cluncli 
in  \ew  Prunswick. " 

Mr.  Reynolds  was  formerl)'  very  active  in 
Masonic  woik,  having  taken  a  large  number 
of  degrees  and  having  held  office  in  most  of  the 
bodies.  He  retired  honorably  from  the  frater- 
nity in  1S94,  when  he  was  received  into  the 
Catholic  Church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New 
Piimswick  Historical  Society,  has  held  official 
positions  in  the  A.  ().  H.,  and  is  past  president 


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iif  tlio   llibcriiian   Kni>;lils.      I  Ic  is  unman  icil, 
and  liis  address  is  St.  Jolm  or  Moiictdii.   N.  M. 


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I)I':KS(1\,  iif  Sackvillc,  N'.H.,  is  a 
lypiial  rt'iircscntativf  of  tlidsc  hardy 
and  coura^a'iiiis  men  who  have  assisted  in  de- 
velopin^i  tlic  commercial  resources  of  the  I'rov- 
inces,  and  made  possible  a  close  intercourse 
anil  a  lar^^e  interchani^e  of  ^mikIs  between  iiome 
and  foreign  poits.  He  was  born  in  .Sack\iile, 
i-'cbruary  t,,  1.S40,  son  of  Titus  and  Jane  (). 
(iiuhner)  Anderson,  and  is  of  the  fourth  gen- 
eration in  descent  from  Thomas  Anderson,  Sr. , 
the  louuder  of  the  taniily  in  New  Brunswick, 
who  was  one  of  the  pioneeis  of  Sackville. 

Thomas  Anderson,  Sr. ,  was  ixirn  in  l-ingland 
about  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  centuiy, 
and  there  grew  to  manhood,  a  resident  of  York- 
shire, blarly  in  1772,  in  the  town  of  \'ork, 
England,  lie  married  Mary  Redburn,  and  shortly 
after  this  young  couple  came  to  this  country 
in  comjiany  with  ("barles  Dixon,  of  whom 
fuilher  mention  is  made  below.  They  lived 
with  Mr.  Di.xon  and  his  familv  at  Sackville 
lor  a  while;  and  then  .Mr.  Anderson  bought 
land  on  Cole's  Ishnul,  where  he  engaged 
in  general  farming  the  remainder  of  his 
active  career.  His  life  covered  a  period  of 
more  than  ninety  \ears.  His  wife  also  at- 
tained a  good  old  age.  It  is  not  known  how 
many  daugiiters  they  reared;  but  they  had 
three  sons,  of  whom  Thomas,  Jr.,  the  Cajitain's 
grandfather,  was  tiie  second  in  order  of  birth. 

Thomas   Anderson,    Jr.,   was  born    in    Sack- 


ville, and  there  spent  his  eighty-se\en  years 
of  earthly  life,  industriously  and  successfully 
employed  tlie  greater  part  of  the  time  in  agri- 
cultural pursuits.  Of  his  marriage  with  I.ucy 
Stone  (he  sons  and  an  etpial  number  of  daugh- 
ters were  born.  One  of  his  sons,  Charles,  is 
still  living.  Hoth  Thomas  .Anderson,  Jr.,  and 
his  wife  were  Maptisls. 

Titus  Anderson,  their  third  son,  the  father 
of  Ca|)tain  Anderson,  was  born  on  Cole's 
Island,  Sackville,  X.l!.,  July  5,  1S05.  bol- 
lowing  the  sea  from  his  early  manhond,  he 
soon  became  master  and  owner  of  a  coasting- 
vessi),  and  was  always  afterward  connected  with 
sailing-vessels,  either  as  an  owner  or  master, 
or  both,  having  had  several  new  vessels  built 
lor  him.  He  was  shipwrecked,  and  lost  bis 
life  on  the  Slh  of  July,  1.S70,  being  then  about 
si.xty-five  years  of  age.  He  married  M...ib 
24,  iS^o,  Jane  Oulton  Hulmer,  daughter  of 
Charles  1).  and  bllizabetb  (Oulton)  Hulmer, 
and  the  eldest  of  a  family  of  five  sons  and  four 
daughters.  Her  father,  Charles  Ibdmer,  was 
the  eldest  sun  of  (ieorge  Hulmer  and  his  wife, 
Susanna  Dixon  Hulmer,  the  latter  being  the 
eldest  daughter  of  Charles  Dixon,  one  of  the 
first  of  the  I-lnglish  inunigrants  who  settled  at 
Sackville. 

Charles  Di.\on,  as  we  learn  from  the  Dixon 
genealogy  compiled  by  James  D.  Dixon,  was 
born  at  Kirkleavington,  in  the  b'.ast  Riding  of 
Yorkshire,  l-jigland,  in  173(3.  On  June  24, 
1763,  lie  married  Susanna  ('oates.  On  March 
16,  I77_',  with  his  wife  and  four  children,  be 
sailed  fnjm  I.iver|)ool  in  the  ship  "Duke  (jf 
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fcllow-passongcrs  were  Thomas  Aiulersdn,  Sr. , 
and  l)is  bride,  as  nici\ti(inc(l  al)<)ve,  and  (icnrj^c 
Miilnicr,  then  a  lad  of  twelve  years.  Keaihinj{ 
{'"ort  Ciunherland  on  May  2i,  Mr.  Di.xon  there 
fduiul  a  tiiii|icirary  restin^-plaie  for  his  family, 
and  in  June  removed  with  them  to  Saikvillc, 
where  he  had  hoiij^ht  a  tract  of  land  —  twenty- 
live  lumdred  aires-  -  for  two  hnndred  and  si.xty 
|iounds. 

Jletter  educated  tlian  many  ol  his  neij;;hl)ors 
and  exjierienced  in  hnsiness,  he  became  an  ac- 
tive, useful,  and  influential  citizen,  holding 
the  olbces  of  Justice  (jf  the  I'eace  and  Jud;;e  of 
the  t'ommon  I'leas.  He  was  a  devoted  .Meth- 
odist in  religion,  and  his  house  was  a  home  for 
the  carl)  .\rethoiiist  preachers.  lie  died  in 
1817  in  his  eighty-eighth  year,  and  Mrs. 
Di.xon  in  iS^f),  at  the  same  age.  Their  de- 
scendants, the  posterity  of  their  eight  chiKhcii, 
are  numeic    >  and  are  widely  scattered. 

Susanna,  their  tiiird  child,  born  in  I'Jigiand 
in  I  yC)j,  married  George  Mulmer  in  1 7.S4. 
Charles  Di.xon  Hulmer,  eldest  son  of  (icorge 
and  Susanna,  manied  in  1  .S09  I'ili/.aiicth 
Oulton,  of  Westmoreland,  and  settled  at  .Sack- 
ville  on  land  given  him  by  hi.s  grandfather 
Di.xon.  Industrious  and  enterjirising,  he  suc- 
cessfully engaged  in  farnnng,  also  to  some  ex 
tent  in  lumbering  and  milling.  lie  died  in 
iSr)4,  aged  seventy-seven  years ;  and  his  wife, 
I'Llizabeth,   died    in    1.S70,    aged    eighty-three. 

Mrs.  Jane  ( ).  Ander.son  was  born  May  jo, 
iSio,  and  died  October  S,  1895.  She  was 
a  woman  of  line  character  anil  a  member  of  tlie 
Hapti.st  church.  Siie  bore  her  husband  six 
children,    nameh  :  (ieorge;    Ammi   C;    l';ii/.a- 


beth,  who  died  of  whooping-cough  at  the  age 
of  eighteen  months;  Charles  M.  ;  'i'homa.s  K.  ; 
and  Gaius.  l)f  these  only  the  two  younger  are 
now  li\ing. 

(iaius  Ander.son  married  I'.inma  A.  Keillor 
and  has  four  children  :  lunma  Ruth  and  F.ucy 
Jane,  twins,  iiorn  March  .^i,  iii()6;  Hubert  G., 
born  August  15,  1870;  and  Minnie  .Mice,  born 
January  i,  1S7.?. 

Ca|)tain  (icorge  Anderson,  tiie  eldest  of  the 
family  of  Titus  Anderson,  was  a  ship-builder 
and  master  mariner,  lie  died  at  bis  home  in 
187.5,  at  the  earl)-  age  of  ffirtytwo  )ears,  leav- 
ing his  wife  (Arahel  Ayer),  three  sons,  and 
a  daughter.  The  mother,  who  was  tiie  young- 
est child  of  Jesse  Ayer,  survived  her  husband 
only  seven  years.  Captain  Ru])crt  Titus  An- 
derson, the  eldest  of  their  family,  has  followed 
tiie  sea  since  bis  boybond,  and  is  at  |>resent 
master  of  the  steamship  "('omlor."  of  W.  K. 
Grace's  line,  running  i)etween  New  York  and 
Valparaiso,  lie  is  unmarried.  The  seconil 
in  this  family  is  Cajitain  I'jnest  Lawrence 
Anderson,  at  present  master  of  ship  ".\i'- 
mcnia,"  belonging  to  Messrs.  Ta)  lor  Urothers, 
of  St.  John,  \.M. ,  the  sanie  tirm  with  which 
his  uncle  has  been  so  long  connected.  Cap- 
tain l-anest  married  in  1890  Jessie  b'ord, 
daughter  of  Alexander  I'ord,  Msq.,  of  Moncton, 
N.  H.  They  have  two  children.  C^ajitain 
George's  third  son  has,  like  his  brothers,  al- 
ways followed  the  sea.  lie  has  an  I'jiglish 
ship-master's  certificate  of  competence,  and  has 
occasionally  been  in  connnand,  but  at  the 
present  writing  is  chief  ollicer  of  the  steamship 
"Madiana,"    of   the    (juebec    .Steamship   Com- 


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paiiy,  sailing  out  of  New  Vorit.  Mc  is  iinniar- 
ricil.  Tiie  fourth  and  youngest  surviving  child 
of  Cai)tain  George  is  Carrie  H.  R.  Anderson 
Peters,  the  wife  of  George  Peters,  ICsij. ,  of  St. 
John,  N.  H.,  and  mother  of  two  hoys,  one  horn 
on  i'ehruary  22.  iSyj,  and  the  other  i'"ehrnary 
22,   1899. 

Aninii  C.  Aniierson,  second  son  of  Titus, 
was  a  stone-mason  and  hrickla_\-er,  heing  tiie 
onl)'  one  of  the  family  who  cliose  an  occupation 
that  kejit  liini  on  land.  An  excellent  mechanic 
and  highly  respected  hy  all  who  knew  him,  he 
became  the  owner  of  a  good  property.  He 
died  in  1S85,  aged  fifty-two  years;  and  his 
wife,  J'.lizabeth,  daughter  of  C.  Dixon  Hulmcr, 
died  in  1891.  They  had  two  daughters,  botii 
of  whom  ;!ied  in  girlhood. 

Captain  Charles  M.  Anderson,  tlie  fourth 
child  of  Titus  vXnilcrsoii,  became  master  of 
a  sailing-shi|)  when  quite  a  \()ung  man.  lie 
was  a  successful  shiiimaster,  having  had  com- 
mand of  several  new  shi|)s,  the  last  of  which 
was  named  after  his  wife,  "Bertha  Anderson." 
He  died  in  New  Zealand,  at  tlieageof  fift\-eight 
years.  He  was  twice  married.  II  is  fust  wife, 
Mary  Wry,  second  daughlei-  of  the  late  Isaac 
Wry,  bore  him  two  children,  the  first  of  whom 
died  in  childhood,  and  tiie  second,  Marv,  is 
maiiied  and  living  in  New  Zealand.  He  mar- 
ried for  his  second  wife  Bertha  Dixon,  young- 
est daughter  of  tiie  late  John  Dixon,  of  Dor- 
chester, N.  ]!.  ( )f  this  union  weie  born  five 
children,  fiuu'  of  whom  are  li\  iiig. 

Thomas  Khei'se  .Andeison,  tlie  fifth  child  of 
Titus  and  the  special  subject  of  the  present 
sketch,  completed  his  education  at  Mount  >\lli- 


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son  Academy  when  seventeen  years  old,  and 
then,  yielding  to  the  fascinations  of  seafaring 
pursuits,  embarked  as  a  sailor.  Proving  him- 
self a  skilful  mariner,  he  was  made  master  of 
a  vessel  in  1862;  and  from  that  time  forward 
he  was  engaged  ])rincii)ally  in  foreign  trade, 
in  his  voyages  frecpiently  visiting  ports  in 
C^liina,  Jaiian,  tlic  Philippines,  and  on  the  we.st 
coast  of  Y\iiierica.  l-'rom  1866  until  his  re- 
tirement from  the  sea  in  1892  Captain  Ander- 
son continued  in  the  employ  of  tiie  firm  of 
Taylor  Brothers,  with  whom  he  is  still  as.soci- 
ated,  having  large  interests  in  \arious  sailing- 
vessels. 

His  record  as  a  successful  shipmaster  it 
would  be  hard  to  excel.  He  never  made  a 
voyage  without  it  resulting  in  a  dividend  for 
the  ship-owners,  never  stranded  a  \essel  or 
iiad  1  loucii  the  ground,  nor  \'aried  from  the 
voyage  for  repairs  or  stores  —  in  short,  never 
went  into  a  port  in  distress.  And  his  integ- 
rity, no  less  than  his  seamansiiii)  and  business 
ability,  has  been  always  recognized  by  his 
employers. 

Captain  Anderson  married  Ruth  I'..  H.  Cole, 
daughter  of  Rufus  Cole,  of  Rockport,  N.  B. , 
formerly  for  several  years  Deputy  Collector  of 
Customs.  Mrs.  Anderson  aceoinpanijd  her 
husbind  on  a  voyage  sliorllv  after  their  mar- 
riage, and  in  a  few  months  died  at  sea. 


§l'l.irS     I.kGI'.XDRI'.    INCHl'l.S,    of 
I''redericton,       N.B.,      ex  Secretary     of 
Agiiculture,    is    a    native  of    Dunkeld, 
Perthshire,  Si'otland,    and    was    hcirn    in    1824. 


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Records  which  liave  unfortunately  been  lost 
c:)iitainccl  the  family  genealoj^y  for  two  hundred 
and  fifty  years,  and  revealed  the  fact  that  the 
Inches  are  a  branch  of  the  KolKitson  family  of 
Scotland.  The  origin  of  tlie  famil\-  name  of 
Inches  is  somewhat  in  doubt,  but  it  is  gener- 
ally believed  by  its  members  that,  as  their  an- 
cestors lived  upon  the  river  Tny  and  inhabited 
the  intervales  or  narrow  stretches  of  allu\ial 
soil  along  its  banks,  called  in  Scotland  inches, 
the  name  was  deri\ed  from  that  peculiar  local 
idiom.  On  his  mother's  side  Mr.  Indies  is  a 
descendant  of  tiie  Smalls,  who  were  large 
landed  |)roprietors.  He  deri\ed  his  middle 
name  from  A.  I.eCicndie,  an  oiricer  of  \apo- 
leon's  army,  wiio,  while  a  prisoner  in  .Scot- 
land, fell  in  love  with  his  jiaternal  aunt,  and 
married  her. 

Mr.  Inches's  father  was  a  business  man  of 
I'erthshiri',  \viio  emigrated  with  his  family  in 
1.S34,  and  settled  in  St.  John.  lie  engaged  in 
eonnnerce,  hut  died  soon  after  his  arrival,  a 
comiiarativel}'  )(umg  man. 

Julius  Le("ien(lre  Iiu'iies  came  tn  \iw  Ihuiis- 
wick  with  his  parents  at  tiie  age  of  ten  years; 
and,  when  <dd  enough,  he  succeeded  to  the 
business  establislied  by  his  elder  brother,  and 
cimducted  it  until  the  loss  of  a  limb  and  fail- 
ing health  compelled  him  to  retire.  His  busi- 
ness caused  him  to  make  several  trips  to 
l'".ngland,  and  he  fre(|uently  visited  the  L'niled 
States,  where  he  formed  many  personal  friend- 
siiips,  whiih  lie  continues  to  cherish.  After 
reiiiK|uishing  commeice  he  tuiiied  his  attentinn 
to  agricidture,  whiih  was  always  an  attiacti'.e 
emjiloyinent     tn    him.        Subsequent  iy,     being 


tendered  the  office  of  .Secretary  of  Agriculture, 
then  newly  established,  he  accepteil  it  and 
filled  it  with  ability  until  October  I,  1890, 
when  he  retiied.  One  of  Mr.  Inches's  brothers 
was  Deputv  Smveyor  (leneral  of  .New  I'nms- 
wick,  and  anotiier  is  a  physician  of  higii  stand- 
ing in  St.  John. 


IIARI.KS  ODb:i.l„  late  a  retired  civil 
engineer  of  I'redericton,  was  born  in 
\iigust,  1826,  in  the  house  which 
was  his  lifelong  home,  and  which  has  been 
the  family  residence  for  many  years.  His 
parents  were  William  I'ranklin  and  l^lizabeth 
(N'ewell)  Odcll.  The  house  was  built  by  his 
grandfatiier,  a  clergyman  of  the  tlhurch  of 
ICngland,  who  came  to  New  Brunswick  in 
1783  with  the  New  laigland  Loyalists,  and 
for  many  years  was  government  .Secretary  of 
the  Province.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Odell  was  edu- 
cated in  I'.nglauil.  lie  had  a  family  of  several 
children,  of  whom  the  youngest  was  William 
l'"ranklin. 

William  l'raid-;lin  (^dcll  was  born  in  the 
United  .States.  lie  studied  law,  but  instead 
of  I'ollowing  the  profession  he  became  I'ro- 
vincial  .Secretary,  and  after  hi>l(ling  that  posi- 
ti(H)  for  s' me  time  he  entered  the  ciowii  land 
office,  beginning  as  assistant,  lie  died  at 
seventy  years  of  age.  Ten  children  were  born 
to  William  I'"raiiklin  and  I'^lizabeth  (Newell) 
'  Odell. 

(Iharles  Odell,  the  yoimgest  child,  received 
his  education  in  the  iiublie  schools,  including 
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Frcdericton,  and  j^raduatcd  fniin  tlie  lattiT  in 
1847.  He  then  went  to  England  and  studied 
enginceiin',^  with  i\fr.  Roberts,  a  clerk  of  the 
I'jiglish  Hoard  of  Works  in  Ireland,  and  was 
afterward  employed  on  the  hoard  for  two  or 
tliree  years.  Returning  iionie,  he  assisted  in 
making  tiie  preliminary  surveys  for  the  Great 
Western  Railway,  the  Grand  Trunk  Railway, 
the  Intercolonial  Railway,  and  a  line  of  rail- 
road in  Ohio.  Mis  death  occurred  on  May  27, 
1898,  in  the  seventy-second  year  of  his  age. 

Mr.  Odell's  fust  marriage  was  with  May- 
nard  Grange,  by  whom  he  had  two  children: 
Florence  ^lary,  wife  of  William  (i.  King,  of 
Kngland,  now  residing  in  Maine;  and  George 
Grange,  who  is  a  civil  engineer  in  South 
America.  In  1867  Mr.  Odell  married  Sarah 
Kinnear,  daughter  of  the  late  John  D. 
Kiiinear,  Judge  of  Probate  for  Cumberland 
County,  Nova  Scotia.  They  had  live  chil- 
dren. Those  living  are:  Georgicna  /"dythc, 
wife  of  Charles  Heath  Gwilt,  of  Montreal;  and 
Mabel  Newell. 

Mr.  Odell  was  independent  in  politics,  lie 
was  a  member  of  the  I'rovincial  .Society  of 
Christian  luideavor  and  of  the  Church  of 
I'jigland. 


R1';1)1:KICK  v.  R11:1),  one  ol  the 
^5  leading  merchants  of  Moncton,  N.H., 
is  carrying  on  a  flourishing  business  as  the 
head  of  the  .'uterprising  linn  of  I'".  1'.  Ried  & 
Co.,  wholesale  grocers.  A  son  of  the  late 
William  i".  and  Catherine  (Stiles)  Ried,  he 
was  born  Ajiril  Jd,  1861,  in  Hopewell.  Albert 
County,  N.  H. 


William  Ried,  his  paternal  grandfather, 
rounded  out  a  full  fourscore  years  of  earthly 
life.  He  was  a  farmer  and  also  a  mill  owner 
and  operator.  He  married  a  Miss  Faster- 
brook,  who  also  lived  to  a  ripe  old  age.  Hoth 
were  people  of  eminent  C!h'-istian  character 
and  faithful  members  of  the  Haptist  church. 
They  reared  ten  children,  of  whom  Dri.xy,  wife 
of  George  Harnes,  is  the  sole  survivor. 

William  T.,  son  of  William  Ried,  learned 
the  trade  of  a  carpenter  in  .Sackville,  N.l?., 
the  town  of  his  birth,  and  was  subsequently 
engaged  as  a  builder  and  contractor  in  Moston, 
Mass.,  for  a  number  of  years.  Returning  to 
New  Hrunswick,  he  located  in  .St.  John, 
where  he  died  while  in  the  prime  of  life,  at 
the  age  of  forty-four  years.  An  honest,  in- 
dustrious man,  he  met  with  a  good  share  of 
success  in  his  business,  and  was  everywhere 
respected  for  his  sterling  qualities.  He  was 
connected  by  membership  with  the  Haptist 
church,  while  his  widow,  who  is  now  a  resi- 
dent of  .St.  John,  is  a  I'resbyterian.  Of  her 
three  children  but  two  survive,  namely:  I'red- 
erick  1'.,  the  special  subject  of  this  biography; 
and  Henry  (i.  The  latter  married  Mary 
Titus,  of  .St.  John,  and  they  have  three 
children  —  DonaUl  R.,  I'"rederick  R.,  and 
Clark. 

I'Vederick  1'.  Ried  obtained  a  practical  edu- 
cation in  t':^  schools  of  St.  John,  and  was 
afterward  employeil  for  four  years  in  an  archi- 
tect's office  in  that  city.  'Ihen  entering  a 
general  mercantile  establishment,  he  remained 
with  the  firm  as  book-keeper  for  a  while,  and 
subse(iuently  travelleil  as  a   connnercial    s.iles- 


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man  for  a  few  years.  In  1891,  forming  a  co- 
IKirtncrshii^  with  Mr.  John  \V.  Y.  Smitli  (of 
wliom  a  brief  sketch  may  i)e  found  on  another 
|).ige  of  this  work),  he  established  tiic  firm  of 
which  lie  is  the  senior  mcml)er,  and  embarked 
in  business  as  an  importer  and  a  wliolesale 
dealer  in  staple  and  fancy  groceries,  l-'ortune 
has  evidently  smiled  ujion  him,  as  in  the  few 
years  that  have  since  elapsed  he  has  built  up 
a  substantial  trade.  I'olitieally,  Mr.  Kied  is 
a  Conservative.  I'raternally,  he  is  a  Mason, 
belonging  to  Keith  Lodge,  !•".  &  A.  M.,  of 
Moncton;  and  in  1893  be  served  as  an  Alder- 
man. 

On  l''cl)runry  14,  1893,  Mr.  Ried  married 
Mary  I-.,  daughter  of  William  !''islier,  of 
Fredericton,  N.  H.  'I'hcy  have  two  children, 
namely:  Catherine  S.,  born  June  i,  1895;  and 
I'Vederick  A.,  born  November  17,  1896.  Mr. 
Ried  attends  and  liberally  assists  in  sujiport- 
ing  St.  George's  Anglican  Church,  of  which 
Mrs.  Ried  is  a  communicant. 


RIAll  RUIU>:RT  1 1 AN.SOX, ex-Mayor 
of  Woodstock,  N.H.,  is  actively  iden- 
tified with  the  business  interests 
of  the  place  as  a  leading  meat  and  provision 
dealer.  He  was  born  Ajiril  \C).  1850,  in  the 
(larish  of  St.  Patrick,  in  the  vicinity  of  .St. 
Andrews,  N.  H. ,  which  was  also  the  i)lace  of 
birth  of  his  father,  I!lisba  iianson.  lie  is  of 
iMiglish  ancestry,  his  paternal  grandfather, 
John  Hanson,  having 'l^een  born  in  I'jigland. 
Jolin  Hanson  emigrated  to  this  country  when 
a  comparatively  young  man,  ami  settled  in  .St. 


Andrews,  N.  H. ,  wlure  he  was  engaged  as  a 
farmer  until  his  demise. 

Mlisiia  Hanson  during  his  entire  active  life 
carried  on  general  farming  and  stock-raising 
on  a  somewiiat  extensive  scale.  He  married 
.Margaret  Ann,  daughter  of  Richard  Carlow, 
of  Charlotte  County,  New  Hrunswick,  and 
they  iiad  a  family  of  nine  children,  as  follows: 
Samuel,  of  Houlton,  Me.;  Frederick,  de- 
ceased; Arthur,  of  Woodstock ;  Caroline,  wife 
of  William  McAllney,  of  St.  Stephen,  N.  M. ; 
Nevin,  deceased;  ICIizabeth,  who  died  in 
childhood;  Uriah  Rubert;  b'dward,  of  .St. 
Stejihen;  and  Minerva,  now  Mrs.  Rierstead, 
of  .St.  .Stejihen.  Hoth  parents  were  members 
of  the  Hajitist  church. 

Uriah  R.  Iianson  grew  to  manhood  in  .St. 
Andrews,  and  while  a  boy  became  as  familiar 
with  the  various  duties  of  the  farm  as  he  did 
with  the  contents  of  his  school  books.  In 
1868,  before  attaining  bis  niajority,  he  opened 
a  store  of  general  merchandise  in  Richmond, 
N.H. ,  where  he  continued  five  years.  Dispos- 
ing then  of  bis  business  in  that  locality,  he 
became  clerk  in  a  general  store  at  Houlton, 
Me.  On  leaving  Houlton  he  came  to  Wood- 
stock, where  for  four  years  he  was  engaged  in 
the  wholesale  produce  trade.  In  1882,  at  the 
time  he  was  left  a  widower,  he  closed  out  his 
business,  and  lived  retired  from  active  pur- 
suits for  a  year.  Being  then  elected  Town 
Marshal,  he  served  four  ye.irs,  and  was  subse- 
quently County  Inspector  under  the  .Scott  Act 
for  three  years.  In  1891  Mr.  Hanson  estab- 
lished a  wholesale  and  retail  fruit  business, 
which  he  conducted  four  years  before  ;ielling. 


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In  the  si)rinj^  of  1897  lie  again  resumed  busi- 
ness by  opening  iiis  [iresent  meat  market, 
wiiich  is  one  of  the  largest  and  best  equiijped 
of  any  in  town,  and  has  since  won  an  excellent 
trade. 

Politically,  IMr.  Manson  is  a  Liberal  and  an 
influential  member  of  his  party.  He  served 
three  years  in  the  Town  Council,  and  in  1893 
was  elected  Mayor  of  Woodstock,  a  position 
which  he  filleil  with  commendable  ability. 
Fraternally,  he  is  a  member  of  Court  Regina, 
I.  O.  F. 

Mr.  Hanson  married  for  his  first  wife  Esther 
Jenkins,  of  Iloulton,  Me.  She  died  in  1882. 
He  then  married  for  his  .second  wife  Isa- 
bella, daughter  of  Francis  Johnson,  of  Wood- 
.stock.  IJoth  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hanson  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Baptist  church.  They  have  three 
cKildren  —  I'^thel,  Marguerite,  and  Frank. 


(SHAMES  IIANNAV,  D.C.  L.,  editor  of 
the  Daily  Ti-lixivfy/i,  -St.  John,  is  known 
to  present-day  Canada  as  one  of  the 
best  among  her  historians  and  journalists. 
He  is  first  and  foremost  a  Canadian,  and  all 
his  thought  and  study  has  been  given  to  his 
native  land. 

He  was  born  April  22,  1842,  at  Richilnicto, 
Kent  County,  N.15  ,  wliere  his  father,  the 
Rev.  James  Haniiay,  was  the  i'resbyterian 
minister.  His  mother  was  in  maidenhood 
Jane  Salter,  of  Hants  County,  Nova  Scotia. 
His  father  was  of  an  old  Scottish  family,  be- 
longing to  Sorbie,  in  Wigtownshire,  in  which 
county    he    was    born.       James    Hannay,    the 


critic    and  author,   and   friend   of  Thackeray, 
was  of  the  same  family. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  at 
New  Kilpatrick  Parish  School  in  Scotl.and 
and  at  the  St.  John  (N.H. )  Grammar  .School. 
He  took  up  the  study  of   law,  and  in  October, 

1866,  he  was  admitted  attorney  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  New  Brunswick.      In  October, 

1867,  be  was  admitted  barrister,  and  in  March 
of  the  same  year  he  was  appointed  official  re- 
porter of  the  Suprenv  Court  of  the  I'roviace, 
an  office  that  he  held  until  1873,  He  pub- 
lished two  large  volumes  of  rejiorts  covering 
the  decisions  of  the  court  tluring  this  period. 

Not  finding  the  practice  of  law  congenial 
to  his  tastes,  he  early  abandoned  it  for  the  pro- 
fession of  journalism.  I'rom  1872  to  1883  he 
was  associated  with  the  late  Hon.  William 
Elder  in  the  editorial  management  of  the  .St. 
John  Tihgi-dpli.  In  the  latter  year  he  went 
to  Montreal,  where  he  occupied  an  editorial 
chair  on  the  Montreal  llciald  for  a  year  and  a 
half.  Then  for  a  short  time  he  made  the 
United  States  his  home,  and  was  employed  in 
various  capacities  on  the  Brooklyn  /uiq;/(\ 
passing  through  the  stages  of  general  writer, 
literary  editor,  and  associate  editor.  In  1888 
he  returned  to  St.  John  to  assume  the  editorial 
chair  on  the  staff  of  the  .St.  John  (iazcttc,  and 
in  1893  accepted  the  chief  editorship  of  the 
.St.  John  Tilii^rapli. 

He  has  thus  had  a  continuous  connection 
with  newspaper  work  covering  a  c|uarter  of 
a  century.  In  the  discharge  of  his  editorial 
duties  he  has  combined  a  wide  knowledge  of 
affairs  with  a  virile  yet  graceful   pen.      He   is 


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quick  in  perception  and  rapid  in  composition. 
Optimistic  by  nature,  he  believes  in  support- 
ing first  that  which  is  l)est  for  his  native 
country  and  in  losterin;;-  with  his  pen  every- 
thinj;  which  is  in  her  interests.  Mr.  Hannay 
has  successfully  entered  various  fielils  of  liter- 
ary endeavor,  writini;  now  an  easy,  tlowin'j,  and 
spirited  ballad,  now  an  exi^ustive  historical 
work,  now  a  bri-^ht  and  racy  maj;azine  article 
or  story.  When  quite  a  young  man  he  wrote 
])oems  over  the  i/inii  dc  plume  of  "Saladin" 
for  the  St.  John  Courier  and  other  papers. 
Later  he  wrote  a  number  of  ballads  relating  to 
Acadia,  describing  picturesque  incidents  in 
its  history.  When  Stewart's  Qiiartir/y  was 
established  in  St.  John  by  George  Stewart, 
he  became  one  of  its  best  contributors,  sujiply- 
ing  sketches  and  stories  in  a  lighter  vein. 

His  first  effort  historically  was  a  series  of 
sketches  of  the  early  forts  in  New  I?runswick. 
This  was  followed  by  "The  Captivity  of  John 
Cyles  among  the  Milicetes  from  1689  to 
1698,"  which  he  published  in  1875,  with  an 
introduction  and  annotations  by  himself.  The 
same  year  he  wrote  a  history  of  the  city  of 
St.  John,  N.I5. 

All  this  time  he  has  been  preparing  the 
work  whicl)  afterward  made  his  reimtation  as 
an  historian.  No  good  history  of  Acadia 
under  the  French  regime  had  yet  appeared. 
Murdock's  work  was  more  in  the  nature  of  a 
record  of  events  than  a  history,  and  Camp- 
bell's and  Ilaliburton's  were  the  product  of 
insufficient  research,  lie  had  therefore  been 
for  some  years  busy  in  the  libraries  upon  a 
history  of  Acadia,   and   in    1879    it   appeared 


from  the  publishing  houses  of  J.  &  A.  Mc- 
William,  .St.  John,  and  Sampson  Low  &  Co., 
London.  The  work  was  favorably  received  by 
the  ])ublic,  and  obtained  the  high  commenda- 
tion of  the  reviewers;  and  well  it  might,  for 
it  possessed  the  (pialities  essential  to  both  an 
historical  and  literary  work.  It  is  an  elabo- 
rate and  sch(darly  production,  its  pages  siiow- 
ing  the  research  of  the  historian,  the  judicial 
cast  of  the  thinker,  and  the  grace  of  the  litte- 
rateur. An  incident  in  connection  with  this 
work  shows  the  value  of  ]iL;rseverance.  It 
was  to  have  ap|)eared  in  1877,  but  the  great 
fire  came  to  St.  John  while  it  was  in  the  hands 
of  the  publishers.  The  sheets  already  printed, 
the  manuscript,  and  the  author's  valuable 
library  were  destroyed.  All  that  remained 
were  a  few  proof  sheets,  and  tlie  work  had  to 
be  almost  entirely  rewritten. 

His  next  historical  work,  his  "History  of 
the  (Jueen's  Rangers,"  appeared  in  tlie  .St. 
John  Sini  in  1883.  Then  his  historical  labors 
ceased  for  a  time,  but  were  renewed  in  the 
projection  of  three  or  four  more  important 
works.  These  are:  the  "History  of  tlie 
Loyalists,"  which  ran  through  the  'J\/(xnt/>/i 
during  1894;  "The  Townsliii)  of  Mauger- 
ville,"  lately  published  in  tlie  first  volume  of 
the  New  Hrunswick  Historical  Society;  the 
"History  of  the  War  of  1812"  and  the  "Life 
and  Times  of  .Sir  Leonard  Tilley, "  the  latter 
published  in  1897.  These  works  form  a 
library  of  great  value,  especially  with  respect 
to  the  history  of  New  Hrunswick.  They  give 
a  consecutive  story  of  that  Province  from  the 
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they  (Id  with  the  periods  of  French  occupa- 
tion, early  I'ji^lish  occujiation,  arrival  of  the 
Loyalists,  the  War  of  18  u,  and  the  later 
days  of  political  life  during'  the  fifty  years  in 
which  Sir  Leonard  'I'illey  was  a  [jrincipal 
factor. 

Mr.  llannay  was  married  in  1.S64  to  Mar- 
garet, daULjhter  of  Mr.  Llias  '1".  Ross,  of  St. 
Johns.  In  i8<jij  the  deface  of  Doctor  of  Civil 
Law  was  conferred  upon  him  by  -Acadia  Uni- 
versity. 

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^S^OSI'M'H  ROWAN,  for  many  years  a 
well-known  ship-builder  of  St.  John, 
was  born  in  this  city,  December  21, 
1.S34,  son  of  Alexander  and  Jane  (Maxwell) 
Rowan.  His  jiarents  were  natives  of  County 
Monaghan,  Ireland,  and  his  mother  was  a  sis- 
ter of  the  venerable  Henry  Maxwell,  of  St. 
John. 

Alexander  Rowan  and  his  wife  cmii^rated 
in  1S21,  and  settling  in  Portland,  N.l?.,  lived 
to  an  advanced  age.  He  engaged  in  the  busi- 
ness of  a  whip-.sawyer,  an  industry  long  since 
extinguished  by  the  advent  of  modern  machin- 
ery. He  was  a  highly  respected  citizen  of  his 
ilay,  and  belonged  to  the  Order  of  Orangemen. 
His  children  were:  Stephen,  Henry,  Joseph, 
Mary,  and  l'",lizai)eth. 

Joseph  Rowan  learned  the  ship-carpenter's 
trade  when  a  young  man,  and  for  four  years 
was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Rowan  brothers. 
Withdrawing  from  that  concern,  he  engaged 
in  business  alone  at  Marble  Point,  where  for 
many  years  he  carried  on  a  thriving  enter- 
prise, and  became  prominently  identified  with 


the  ship-building  industry  of  New  Urun.swick. 
In  189J  he  retired  from  business,  and,  having 
accumulated  a  competency,  is  now  enjoying  a 
well-earned  rest. 

Mr.  Rowan  was  married  in  l?oslon  to  Cath- 
erine Manning,  who  was  born  in  Cork,  Ire- 
land, and  came  to  .St.  John  when  seven  years 
old.  They  have  had  six  children,  one  of 
whom  died  in  infancy,  and  a  son,  Alfred,  died 
in  .August,  189.S,  at  the  age  of  twenty-seven 
years.  The  living  are:  Jackson,  I'rederick, 
Alexander  M.,  and  Alice.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Rowan  are  communicants  of  St.  Luke's  (An- 
glican) Church. 

Alexander  M.  Rowan  was  born  in  St.  John 
in  1866,  and  accpiired  his  education  in  the 
public  schools.  Lntering  a  liardware  store  as 
a  clerk,  he  in  188S  engaged  in  that  business 
for  himself  on  Main  Street,  and  is  carrying  on 
a  large  tratle. 

In  1891  he  marrieil  Lillian  IJaxter,  daugh- 
ter of  George  liaxter,  of  this  city.  She  died 
in  i>!i)3,  leaving  one  ilaughter,  Alice  Arm- 
strong. Alexander  M.  Rowan  is  a  member  of 
Hibernian  Lodge,  l*".  &  A.  M.  He  attends 
St.  Luke's  Church,  ami  has  served  as  a  vestry- 
man. In  1898  Mr.  Rowan  erected  a  three- 
story  and  basement  brick  block,  the  lower  part 
being  used  for  his  business,  the  up])er  rooms 
being  let  to  tenants. 


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gaged in  selling  farm  imiiements  and 
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and  I'Miza  (McCloml)  Hunlcn. 

His  j^ranclfathcr  Munlcn  came  to  New 
Hrunswick  in  1783  with  the  Loyalists,  laml- 
ing  at  St.  John.  The  government  tendered 
him  a  j^rant  ot  one  hundred  acres  of  land,  but 
he  refused  it  and  took  up  a  farm  at  Seven 
( )aks  Creek.  I.at"r  he  removed  to  (jueens- 
boro,  where  he  died.  His  wife,  Ruth,  lived 
to  be  over  one  hundred  years  of  ajje.  Tliey 
had  four  sons  and  two  daughters,  the  sons 
being  Thomas,  William,  Oliver  I'^arl,  and 
George. 

Oliver  ICarl  Hurden,  Sr. ,  was  born  on  the 
St.  John  River,  lie  was  a  shoemaker  hy 
trade,  and  ne  also  followed  lumbering  quite 
e.xtensively  for  a  number  of  years  at  Mira- 
michi,  where  he  was  engaged  at  the  time  of 
the  fire.  He  and  his  wife,  lilizabeth,  had 
four  boys  and  three  girls. 

Oliver  Ki\r\  Hurden,  the  second  cliild,  was 
educated  in  the  schools  of  Kingsclear.  lie 
then  went  into  the  woods  with  his  father,  tak- 
ing a  hand  at  whatever  was  needetl.  Later  he 
carried  on  a  farm,  engaged  in  tlie  lumber 
business  on  his  own  account,  and  did  teaming. 
In  April,  1869,  became  to  I'redericton.  He 
has  continued  to  engage  in  lumbering  and 
teaming,  and  in  the  sjiring  of  1895  he  starteil 
in  the  business  of  selling  farm  implements, 
machinery,  fertilizers,  harnesses,  carriages, 
and  so  forth.  lie  is  doing  a  thriving  busi- 
ness. He  buys  in  carloail  lots  from  (;ntario, 
and  has  a  wareroom  on  I'IkluLv  Stiuare.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Conservative.  On  March  14, 
1899,  he  was  elected  Alderman  by  the   largest 


majority  ever  received  in  Fredcricton.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Free  liaptist  church,  in 
which  he  lias  been  Senior  Deacon  a  number  ol 
years.  He  is  an  earnest  temperance  worker. 
On  October  ro.  1854,  Mr.  Hurden  was 
joined  in  marriage  witii  Hannah  Augusta, 
daughter  of  John  Sanburn.  I-'leven  children, 
eight  sons  and  three  daughters,  have  been 
born  of  tiieir  union.  A  son,  ()liver  Miles,  a 
wood-worker,  and  two  daughters  —  Fmily  and 
Adeline  —  have  passed  away.  James  ]•'..,  the 
first-born,  is  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  in  an  in- 
ventor's shop.  Isaac  C,  a  merchant  tailor, 
is  in  business  in  Marysville.  J.  W.  H.,  a 
carriage-maker  by  trade,  is  employed  in  b'red- 
ericton.  Wilfred  is  a  barber  in  Fredcricton. 
Archilaus  C.  is  an  express  agent  at  W  oodstock. 
Weldon  is  a  druggist,  but  for  three  years  has 
been  in  business  with  his  father.  Ida  K. 
lives  at  home.  Harry  !,owell  drives  a  team 
for  his  father. 


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WliJ  WILLIA.M  JACK  was  born 
li)  1  ""  the  J5th  of  l-'ebruary,  1785,  at 
Cupar,  l'"ife,  Scotland.  When  about 
fourteen  years  of  age  lie  renuived  to  tlie  West 
Indies,  where  a  wealthy  uncle  lesideil,  and  at 
which  place  it  had  been  his  intention  to  per- 
manently settle.  .Some  time  after  his  arrival, 
he  was  taken  seriously  ill  with  a  lever,  and  for 
a  time  liis  life  was  despaired  of.  Tlianks, 
however,  to  his  vigorous  constitution,  and  the 
careful  nursing  which  he  receixed,  he  com- 
pleteh'  recovered. 

Wiiile  at  the  West  Indies  he  .saw   nuicli  that 


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was  aiita{,'onistic  to  iiis  sense  nf  propriety  and 
moral  rectitude,  and  soon  he^'an  to  look  about 
for  an  opportunity  to  renv)ve  to  some  more 
desirable  locality.  'I'be  ,Sal)bath  was  not  ob- 
served, tlu'  nnl\'  notireal)le  dist  inct  ion  between 
Sunday  and  a  week  day  bein-  tiie  sij;iit  of  the 
Hritisli  ensif,n  hciisted  at  the  tort  near  where 
he  resided. 

MnaJly,  he  met  with  a  sea  cajitain  who  was 
master  of  one  ol  the  vessels  owned  by  I'ioliert 
Pagan,  of  St.  Andrews,  and  wim  gave  sueii  an 
cnthuiiiastic  account  of  the  i)iisiness  outlook, 
and  of  the  many  desirable  openings  in  that 
town  for  a  ymnig  man,  tiiat  lie  decided  to  take 
pa.ssage  with  him.  St.  Andrews  was  then,  on 
account  of  the  luml)er  trade  and  the  sliii)ping 
and  otJier  attendant  businesses,  quite  an  impor- 
tant port,  as  many  as  eighty  .square-rigged  ves- 
sels liaving  ln'cn  known  to  leave  tliere  at  one 
tide.  This  was,  of  course,  during  tiie  Ameri- 
can Uevolutinnary  War,  wiien  vessels  njuld 
only  leave  under  convoy  of  a  Hjitisb  man-of- 
war. 

On  llie  arrival  of  llie  vessel  at  St.  .Andrews, 
he  liad  no  money  left  Imt  a  "cut  (|uarter," 
which  was  made  from  a  silver  dollar  cut  into 
four  i)ieces.  Carrying  his  valise  up  to  Mr. 
I'.igan's  olbce,  he  made  ap|iiication  to  tliat 
gentleman  lor  employment.  Mr.  I'agan  was 
much  taken  with  his  maimer  and  apjiearance 
and  immediately  engaged  him  as  a  clerk.  He 
remained  for  .some  years  in  Mr.  Pagan's  em- 
|iloy,  being  linally  taken  into  partnersbii). 
The  silver  piece  above  mentioned  he  retained 
as  a  memento  all  his  life. 

Mrs.  J.    T.    Nevill,    his   daughter,    informed 


the  writer  that  her  father  t(dd  her  th.it  the 
lamily  of  Jack  was  of  J-'rench  origin,  that  sev- 
eral members  fought  in  tlie  wars  of  the  Cru- 
sades, and  that  the  family  name  was  originally 
spelled  "  |acc|ues" 

David  William  jack  w.is  a  man  of  jiolished 
and  courtly  manners,  very  much  of  the  P'rench 
style  and  type,  tall  ami  erect  in  his  bearing, 
and  of  fine  physicpie. 

His  brother,  .Mexander,  who  was  surgeon 
of  the  "Shannon"  at  the  time  of  the  i-ele- 
brated  battle  between  the  "Shannon  "  and  the 
"Chesapeake,"  outside  of  Moston  Harbor  in 
I  Si,?,  weiU  into  ilalilax  with  his  vessel  when 
she  put  into  that  [lort  after  the  b.utle,  with  the 
prize  and  prisoners,  in  order  that  the  wounded 
might  receive  pro|)er  attention.  Owing  to  the 
number  of  wounded  which  Alexander  Jack  had 
ujion  his  hands,  he  was  unable  to  leave  the 
"Shannon"  to  pay  a  visit  to  St.  .\ndrews,  as 
he  desired.  Accordingly,  ])a\id  William  Jack 
made  a  visit  to  Halifax,  then  a  very  arduous 
undertaking,  and  visited  his  brother  (.n  board 
the  "Shaiuion. " 

A  caimon  ball  of  small  calibre,  picked  up 
during  tlie  battle  by  Alexander  Jack,  is  now 
in  the  jjos.session  of  Isaac  Allen  Jack;  while 
his  gold  watch-chain,  some  of  bis  college  ex- 
aiuination  pajiers,  and  a  small  pincushion 
made  of  a  fragment  of  the  weddiu";  ihess  of 
Alexander's  Grandmother  Jack,  aie  now  in  the 
jKissession  of  the  writer. 

David  William  Jack  was  twice  married,  his 
fust  wife,  to  wiiom  he  was  married  Decendier 
10,  iSio,  being  Rebecca  Rus.sell  Wyer,  who 
was   born  July    jj,    i;,S,S,  and  died    at    St.  An- 


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(Iri'ws,  Jiimiaiy  jo,  iSjS.  SIu'  was  a  (l:iiij;hter 
(if  Colonel  I'liciMKis  W'yt-T,  a  native  of  Cliailcs- 
town.  Mass, ,  and  of  Mary  Hunt,  liis  second 
wife. 

Hy  tiiis  wif  had    nine  eiiildren,  as   fol- 

lows: W'illiaii  1  Se|)teini)er  J/.  iSii.diid 

October  I,   iS.Si,,  'riinnias.  born  May  i(>,  1S13, 


m.  i^sS. 
KiiWARD  Wykr,  of  Scotland  =!^  Ki  izaiikim  Johnson. 

I 

I  II).  1701. 

WllT.IAM    WVKR  =^  Kl.KASOR    JK.NNI  R. 

A  seii  captain      I 


Jack  married  Mary  Wycr,  his  fust  wife's  sis- 
ter, by  wlioni  he  had  seven  children,  as  f(d- 
low.s :  Mary  Keheeca,  horn  Novendier,  21,  iM.^o, 
died  Deecnd)er  9,  I1S50;  Maria  and  Jane, 
twins,  horn  March  15,  i<S.?2,  one  of  whom. 
J. me,  died  Marel)  25,  and  Maria  is  still 
livings     Laura,    bom    l'"el)ruary  7,    i<*^.?4,   died 


I'AtM,  Kl'ssEl.t.,  of  Hereford,  Kng. 

I 
lloii.  Kii  iiAKi)  RussKi.i.  =r   Maud  I'lrr. 
Ii.    lOi  I  ;    d.    May,   i.|, 
1676. 

I  m.  i''S4. 

lion.  Jamks  Risskli.  —  AliliiAl.  IlAriloRNi;,  .(th  wife. 
Ii.  (let.  I,  iO.|o.  I 


I  m.  173S.  I 

liAviii  WvK.R  i    Kkiikcca  KiissKi.i,  b.  May  11,  17J1 


I  m,  171... 

lion.  Daniki.  Russki.i.  =^  Rk.iif.cca  Ciiamhkrs. 

J 


Till 

li.  '  ; 

nwrip  \Vrl.l.lA^ 
1).  Kel).  JS.  17S5.  .. 
Cu|iai,  Kifc.  Scotland. 


Wykr       Makv   llr.sf. 

;. '7I-I- 1 ,,. 

Rf.iikci'a  RussKi.r,  Wykr. 
1).  July  Z2,  17SS. 


I 
IIK.NRV    JAI  K  =  An.NM-.   (AKMICIiAia     Jom.nsmin. 


b.  May  11,  r.S2.(. 
d.  Oct.  ;S,  iSS.). 


1).  Dec.  17.  iS)o. 
d.  Nov.  JO,  1881. 


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DAVID    RUSSKI.I,    J.\(  K. 

died  Septeinher  5,  183.?;  Mar;;aret.  born  April  .September   i,   iS(J5;   (leorjic   C'ecil,  born    .Se|i- 

20,    1.S15.    died   January   2.    iSCxj;  Alexander,  teniber    15,    18.55,    'li^'''    Deceniiier    30,    1835; 

born  April   2(j.   1817,  died  January   2S,    1S33;  Robert  Melville,   horn   May    5,    1.S37,    is    still 

Charles    .St.  .Stephen,  born    January    31,    iSiy,  living;     JJa\i(!,     born     March     5,     1  .S40,    died 

died    Septeinher  ij,  1819;  Mary,   horn  Aiif^iist  March  9,    1840. 

17,   1820,  died  September  7,   1820;   l^lizabetli,  I'Vom  a  file  of  old  New  Hrimswick  almanacs, 

horn  October  13,   1821  ;  Henry,  horn   May    11,  it  is  learned  that  Havid  William  Jack  occuiiied 

1824.   died   October   28,    1884;    lulward,   born  for  a  long  ]ieriod  the  followin;^  offices:  danger 

April  8,   182^.  died  December  31,   1895.  I  of  ])utial)lc  Articles  and  Tide  Survc)i)r  at   the 

On    Seiitemher    21,     1829,    David    William  |  I'ort  of  .St.  Andrews;  De|nity  I'rovinciari'reas- 


Dio(;RAi'ni(:AL  rkvikw 


4.5' 


iircr;  (.luiinty  TriMsiiiiT;  Diii'ttor  nf  the  I'ul)- 
lie  (irammar  Schonl ;  (.■uniinissioiicr  of  tlic 
Mariiu"  Iliis|iit:il ;  and  (JiiartcriDastcr,  I'"irst 
l!altali<in,  C'liailottc  C'citinty  Militia,  to  wiiith 
last    iioNilidii    i\i'   was    aiiimiiiti'd    ()it(ii)iT   25, 

lie  was  coniiectt'd  by  inarringe  \v"th  several 
tamilies  whose  names  were  prominent  in  early 
Colonial  history;  notahly,  the  Knssells,  Wyers, 
ra^;aiis,  I'aikers,  anil  I'otcs.  His  laliici-in- 
law,  t!o!iinrl  riionKis  Wyer,  a  I'.l'!.  Loyalist, 
was  horn  June  15,  174.),  at  Charlestown,  Mass., 
anil  ilieil  at  St.  Andrews,  N.H. ,  l-'ebruary  24, 
1834.  Colonel  Wyer,  by  his  first  wife,  Joanna 
I'ote,  dauj;hter  of  Jeremiah  l'(jte,  of  l-'alnioiith. 
Me.,  liad  two  liiiiiheii,  namely:  riiomas,  who 
married  Sally  Tomiikiiis,  and  had  four  ihildren 

'I'liomas,  Joanna,  hili/abeth  Marj;aret  .Shid- 
don,  and  Susan;  and  Robert  I'ote.  By  his 
seioMil  wife,  Mar)-  Hunt,  he  had  nine  children, 
as  fidlows:  Robert  I'ai^an;  Joamia;  Rebceea 
Russell;  James  Bartholomew,  who  died  in 
Jamaiea;  William,  who  died  young;  David; 
Myra;   b'.li/.a;   Mary. 

TIkjuku,  Wi'Ninaii  says,  in  his  "(iene.dogies 
and  Instates  of  C!harlestown,  Mass.,"  that  "The 
line  of  the  Russells  was  eminent  in  social  sta- 
tion, and  distini;uished  in  nndlifarimis  imblic 
serviees  for  nearly  two  eenturies. " 

The  eonneclion  of  the  writer  with  the  Wyer 
and  Russell  ^enealof;ies  is  described  on  the 
precediu';  jiajie. 

The  tond)slones  of  many  of  the  Wyers, 
l'aj;ans,  and  I'oti'S  will  he  found  in  the  old 
,i;ra\eyard  at  St.  ,\ndrews,   .\.  B. 

Av    "Historical    Sketch    of     Charlestown" 


(Mass.),  by  Josiab  Bartlett,  M.I).,  jjublished 
in  Hostnn,  1.S14,  contains  many  interesting; 
notes  of  the  Wyers  and  Russells.  .Several  of 
them  were  {graduates  of  Harvard  Cniversity. 

"'I'bere  are,"  says  Dr.  Bartlett,  "many  an- 
cient epitaphs  on  the  buryinf{-hill,  most  of 
which  are  not  le;,'il)le.  The  followinj,^  amonj; 
others,  has  been  copied  with  diCruulty,  and 
may  serve  as  a  specimen  of  the  taste  of  our 
forefathers;  — 

■llflo  lies  inlirrrd  llif  liixly  <il  Ki(li;inl  Kiissill, 
l'!s(|.,  who  siTvrd  liis  ( <iiiiUry  as  licasiirii,  tnotc  tli.ui  a 
trthlu  'iirfulihliip.  and  as  a  inaKislratc  sixtcrii  yuar?.,  who 
(k'partrd  tliis  life  the  I4lh  of  May  I '17^1,  l)uiiig  the  sixty- 
liflli  yi-.U'  cif  his  age. 

•A  saint,  a  linsliand  and  a  faithlul  Imitliur, 
/\  Iririid  scan  f  f(|n,dliM!  Iiy  any  olhur, 
.\  saint  that  walkrd  lii;;h  in  cilliir  way. 
In  noclhni-s.s  and  honesty  .ill  say. 
A  lui.sb.ind  rare  to  lioth  his  d.irlin;;  wives. 
To  lier  deceased,  to  her  who  him  survives. 
,\  father  politick,  and  Inisliand  kind. 
Into  our  slate  of  Ireasiirersliip  we  (iiicl. 
( )f  falliers  );ooil,  as  best  to  own  to  those, 
<  In  him  a  fathership  law  did  impose. 
A  .Moses  brother  kind,  good  Aaron  lov'd. 
On  whom  love  showers,  fid!  of  streiinth  improve, 
.\  friend  to  needy  poor,  whom  he  refreshed. 
'I'lie  pour  may  well  lament  their  friend  suppressed 
In  time  of  war  he  was  removed  in  peace 
Krom  sin  and  woes  to  glory,  by  his  decease.' 

"I  copied  the  above  from  the  orij^inal  stone 
in  17S7;  and  it  was  replaced  by  the  deseeiid- 
aiits  at  that  time  on  a  tablet  of  soft  freestone, 
which  is  not  proper  for  such  uses,  as  the  in- 
scripti<in  is  now  almost  effaced." 

Ilenr)'   Jack,    son    of    JJa\id   William   Jack, 


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was  born  at  St.  Andrews,  N.l?. ,  May  i  i,  1824. 
l-'roni  the  Kcv.  John  Casscll,  wlm  tatij;lit  tlio 
piililic  graniniar  sclioul  in  St.  Ava.  cwh,  he  re- 
eeixed  a  tlinroiigh  ethieatitin.  Mr.  C'assell  is 
hif^lily  spoken  of,  by  those  wht)  remember  him, 
as  a  scholarly  man  of  <^oo(.\  attainments,  a  good 
disciplinarian,  aiul  one  well  versed  in  the  art 
of  imparting  knowledge. 

llenrv'.-  mother  died  January  20,  icS28, 
while  he  was  still  less  than  loui-  \ears  old. 
On  the  2!st  of  September,  1829,  David  Will- 
iam Jack  married  his  deceased  wife's  sister, 
Mary  W'yer,  for  which  reason  he  and  his  wife 
were  e.\C(iinmnnicaled  from  the  Chnii'h  of  I'.ng- 
land  by  the  then  Rector  of  .St.  Andrews,  the 
Kev.  Jerome  Allev;  and  a  notice  to  that  effect 
was  duh  po.sted  upon  the  door  of  the  I'arish 
Church.  His  second  marriage  ajipears  to  have 
n^sidted  hajiiiilv,  for  no  less  than  seven  chil- 
dren were  born  to  them.  Henry  was  wont  to 
state  in  aft^r  jears  that  he  had  never  felt  the 
loss  of  a  mother,  as  the  step  mother  was  kinder 
to  the  cliildren  of  hei'  sister,  if  that  were  pos- 
sible, even  than  to  her  own.  She  survived 
her  husband  by  many  years,  and  d'-'il  beloved 
by  all  who  knew  her. 

At  a  comparativel)'  early  age  Ileniy  Jack, 
being  one  of  a  familv  of  sixteen  children,  lom- 
menced  life  on  his  own  account,  but  at  what 
occu|iation  the  writer  is  unable  to  ascertain. 
'I'here  being  but  little  opportunity  lor  adv.incc- 
nient  at  .Si.  Andrews,  he  renio\ed  to  St.  Jolm 
about  1S44,  and  enteied  as  a  student  the  law 
oirice  of  his  eldest  brother,  William  Jack,  who 
was  then  m  the  i;njoyment  of  a  lucrative  prac- 
tice  in  St.  John.      Henry  Jack  was  never  ad- 


mitted to  the  liar;  but,  after  devoting  about 
two  years  to  the  study  of  law,  he  took  ailvan- 
tage  of  a  favorable  ojiportunit)',  and  entered 
the  service  of  the  Hank  of  Hritish  Noilh 
America,  in  which  em|)loy  he  lemained  for 
nineteen  years.  He  was  rapidly  jiromoted  un- 
til he  reached  the  position  of  accoimtant. 
While  in  the  bank's  employ  he  lived  for  live 
years  in  .-it.  John's,  Xewfoundlanil,  where  he 
became  accpiainted  with  J.  T.  Nevill,  an  I'.ng- 
lishman  by  birth  and  an  architect  by  profes- 
sion. The  accpiaintance  soon  matured  to  the 
most  intimate  frienciship ;  and,  both  being 
acti\e  men,  fond  of  out-of-door  life,  of  walk- 
ing, driving,  fishing,  and  hunting,  for  which 
the  island  of  Newfoundland  offeretl  ample 
opportunitv,  they  became  almost  as  brothers. 
During  this  life  in  Newfoundlaml  his  sister 
I'llizabeth  came  to  ihe  island  on  a  visit  to  bin). 
Mr.  Xevill  was  so  niucb  taken  with  the  sister 
of  his  friend  that  their  subsequent  engagement 
antl  marriage  followed  almost  as  a  matter  of 
course.  Mli/.abeth  and  her  husband  are  still 
alive  at  the  date  of  the  writing  of  this  memoir, 
-September,   1899. 

In  the  earlier  Colonial  days,  the  plums  of 
ofhce-  -partiiularly  ai)pointments  within  the 
control  of  wealthy  corporations  having  their 
governing  board  in  the  mother  country  fell 
largely,  and  in  fact  almost  tntireiy,  to  rel.i 
lives  or  friends  of  members  of  such  hoard. 
The  result  of  this  polic\,  in  so  far  as  the 
future  of  Henry  Jack  was  concerned,  was  most 
discouraging;  a  d,  after  a  long  .uid  faithful 
.service  to  th-  bank,  during  which  there  were 
several  appointments  to  the  position  of  man- 


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;i,i;cr,  to  which  he  coiisideiuil  that  he  w.'s  hy 
rit;ht  of  priority  entitled,  he  (letenniiieil  to  eul 
aciiilt  from  that  eonnection  and  tiy  his  for- 
tunes in  some  other  \vali<  of  life. 

The  death  of  Alexander  Halloeh  rendering 
vacant  the  position  of  Ceneral  Af;ent  of  the 
North  British  and  Mercantile  Insurance  Con)- 
pany  for  New  Hrunswic-k,  he  apidied  for  and 
received  that  |)ositioii.  Soon  afterward  he  was 
ajipointcd  \'ice-Consul  of  Spain  for  New  Uruns- 
wicl<,  hoth  of  which  positions  he  continued  to 
hold  until  his  death  in  I.S,S4.  The  Spanish 
Consulate,  u|)  to  the  year  1S77,  was  a  particu- 
larly lucrative  office.  'I'he  Consul  being  paid 
hy  a  proportion  of  the  fees  collected,  over  two 
thousand  dollars  were  received  hy  him  during 
the  year  1S76,  when  two  iuiiidred  ■\nd  eighty 
vessels  were  cleared  for  Cuba  alone.  Soon 
afterward  the  substitution  of  bags  for  boxes 
caused  a  decline  in  the  demand  for  sugar-box 
shooks,  much  to  the  disadvantage  of  the  shi[)- 
piiig  and  lumber  industry  of  New  lirunswick 
and  of  the  Spanish  Consul.  ]''or  man\-  \ears 
he  was  an  active  member  of  the  St.  Andrews 
Society  of  New  lirunswick,  being  elected  vice- 
president  in  1863  and  president  in   1867. 

In  June,  1X62,  Henry  'ack  was  mairicd  to 
Annie  Carmichael  Johns, on,  wjio  was  boiii  De- 
cember 17,  1.S40,  tl."  youngest  daughter  of  the 
late  Hon.  Hugh  Johnstmi,  and  died  November 
20,  iS.S'j.  Hy  her  he  had  a  f;;niily  of  six 
children.  Of  these,  three  died  in  childhood, 
namely:  Henry  Wyer  Jack,  at  Roseneath,  near 
(lagetown,  Oueens  County,  X.  H.  (the  country 
residence  of  his  late  Ciandfather  Johnston) 
.August    14,    1^17,5,    aged     two    years    and     ten 


months;  Malcolm  Millidge  Jack,  at  his  father's 
residence  at  Oueen  Scpiare,  of  spinal  menin- 
giti.s,  April  17,  1X76,  aged  three  years  and 
nine  months;  and  Helena  Mary  Jack,  at  (Jueen 
Scpiare,  Ueeember  17,  1.S75,  aged  eight  weeks. 
The  lemainder  of  the  family,  Marion  I'ili/abeth 
Jack,  Louisa  Millidge  Jack,  and  the  writer, 
David  Russell  Ja'k,  still  survive. 

Hy  the  burning  of  their  home  at  Queen 
Scpiare.  June  20,  1877,  Henry  Jack  and  his 
wife  lost  much  valuable  property,  including 
many  family  ])ortraits.  The  famil)  and  ser- 
vants were  at  (iagetown  when  the  fire  occurred, 
and  of  the  immediate  family  only  Henry  Jack 
and  the  writer  were  in  the  citv.  Much  time 
was  lost  in  a  vain  endeavoi-  to  save  the  build- 
ing; but,  o\ving  to  tivj  scarcity  of  water  and 
the  high  wind  which  ])revailcd,  this  was  found 
to  be  im|)racticable,  and  conseciueiuly  very 
little  was  removed  fidiii  the  house  to  the  scpiare 
adjoining.  Oi  wiiat  was  actuall\-  removed  a 
])art  was  carried  off  by  thieves  who  came  up 
from  the  lower  parts  of  liie  city,  and  nearlv 
all  the  rest  was  burned  where  it  lav.  Two 
valuable  family  heirlooms -- a  siher  cpergne 
formerlv  owned  b\-  the  Johnstons,  and  a  sihx-r 
ta;.kard  foinieiiy  the  propertv  of  the  Wvers  at 
St.  -Andrews  —  lay  upon  the  scpiare  all  the 
night  of  the  fire,  and  were  recovered  b\-  the 
owner  on  the  following  dav,  they  being  so 
much  tarnished  that  tiiev  were  considered  hy 
the  t!iie\es  not  of  solid  sihei-,  ami  therefore  nf 
not  sulficient  value  to  carry  away.  .Some  other 
property,  including  miniature  portraits  of 
David  William  Jack  and  his  wii','.  ])ainted  in 
oils  by  K(  bcM  I'arker,  son  of  the  Hoi,    Neville 


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I'aikcr,  (if  St.  Andrews,  who  in  later  jcars  be- 
came quite  famous  as  a  portrait  jiainter,  were 
recovered  in  a  liouse  in  I'ond  Street.  vMl  of 
tliesc  articles  are  still  in  the  possession  of  the 
writer.  The  luu-se  at  (jueen  Scpiare  was  re- 
built in  1X77,  and  reoixnipied  liy  Henry  Jack 
and  his  family  in  April,  1.S7.S.  It  is  now 
owned  by  Mr.  Joim  Morrjs  Robinson,  a  first 
cousin  of  Mrs.  Jack. 

U|)  to  the  time  of  his  marriage  Henry  Jack 
had  attended  the  I'resbyterian  (.'lunch  ;  but  after 
that  event  he  attended  Trinity  Chinch,  anil 
later  .St.  James  Church  In  the  same  city. 
.\hout  1.S76  a  branch  of  the  Reformed  Ivjiisco- 
pal  Church  was  established  in  .St.  Joim,  llenr)' 
Jack  and  his  wife,  William  .S.  INIarven,  and 
others  being  among  the  strongest  sup]iorters. 
l"'r(ini  vaiious  causes,  howe\er,  the  movement 
was  not  a  success;  an<l  after  the  death  of 
Ileiuy  Jack  in  1.S.S4  the  building  which  iiad 
been  erected  on  Ciiarlotte  Street,  largely  by 
the  munificence  of  Henry  Jack  and  his  wife, 
was  sold,  and  is  now  owned  and  occupied  by 
ihe  .Sahation  Army. 

Henr)'  Jack  was  ever  a  kind  and  generous 
host,  his  luMne  being  always  open  to  his 
acqu;  intances  and  friends,  and  more  particu- 
larly to  such  i)ersons  as  from  their  means  or 
position  were  unable  to  oiler  an\-  earthl}' 
reward  foi'  the  many  kindnesses  wiiiih  they 
leceived. 

His  wife,  never  vei\  robust  in  health,  be- 
came during  her  later  years  a  confirmed  in- 
valid. .\  W'lman  ot  great  foititude  and  deep 
Ciiristian  character,  siie  i)ore  her  sufferings 
with  a   calm   resignation,  cheered   In    the  con- 


stant companionshi])  of  a  devoted  husband. 
On  November  20,   18S2,  she  passed  away. 

Strong  and  vigorous  as  he  was,  a  man  of 
active  habits  and  fine  physicpie,  the  loss  of  his 
wife  told  grcatl)'  upon  his  health  and  spirits. 
In  the  s|)ring  of  11X84  he  built  a  summer  cot- 
tage upon  a  pro[)erty  which  he  owned  at  Duck 
Cove.  Here  he  lived  for  a  few  months;  but 
in  July  of  the  same  \eai'  his  health  began 
rapidl}'  to  fail,  and  on  ( )cto|)er  j.S,  18,84,  iic 
died  of  i)aial\sis  of  tlie  biain,  after  but  a  com- 
l)aratively  short  illness. 

The  ])resent  sketch  woidd  be  incomplete 
without  at  least  a  brief  lefercnce  to  the  I'ar- 
kcrs.  Robert  I'arker  was  a  Massachusetts  Loy- 
alist. On  the  peace  he  was  appointed  Com])- 
troller  of  C'usionis  and  Onlnance  .Storekeeper 
at  St.  John,  holding  both  offices  until  his  death 
in  182^,  at  the  age  of  se\enty-foin'  years. 
Mrs.  I'.uker  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-four, 
October,  1852.  The  Hon.  Chief  Justice 
I'arker,  who  died  at  St.  John,  Noxeniher,  1865, 
aged  si.xty-nine  years,  was  his  son,  as  was  also 
the  Hon.  Xeville  I'arker,  Master  of  the  Rolls, 
and  later  one  of  the  Judgi's  of  the  .Supreme 
Court,  who  died  at  St.  Andrews,  August,  1869, 
aged  seventyone  years,  leaving  a  widow, 
Elizabeth  Margaret  Sheddon,  foiuth  d.iughter 
of  Coloiu'l  Thonias  \\\er. 

Robert  and  \e\illc  I'arker  lach  e\i'r  bore 
a  name  that  for  justice,  honor,  \irtue,  and 
integrity  was  above  rejiroach.  In  the  early 
history  of  their  cnunlry  the\-  filled  many  high 
offices  with  ciedit  to  thenisehes  and  to  the 
sati>laction  of  the  people  of  the  counlr)'  which 
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importance  in  the  times  of  the  so-called 
"family  compact"  and  of  irresponsihle  f;ov- 
einment,  it  would  l)e  safely  said  of  them  that 
thcv  never  violated  the  tiust  which  was  placed 
in  them,  and  that,  in  jiassing  away,  lliey  left 
behind  them  a  record  such  as  ;'.ny  man  might 
proiiilly  claim. 

The  gravestones  of  many  of  the  Jacks, 
W'yers,  I'agans,  I'arkers,  and  I'otes  are  in  the 
old  C!hn''_h  of  luighuul  liurying-ground  at  St. 
Anchxws. 

Hugh  Johnston,  Sr.,  was  the  second  son  of 
William  Johnston,  who  resided,  first  in  Or- 
dignhill,  then  at  Mains  of  Halvonie  in  Mort- 
lock,  and  lastly  in  Hurnerooks  Rothes,  where 
he  died  August  12,  i/'.Scj,  aged  seventy -four 
years.  He  married  Isohel  Hepburn.  Ik- 
was  the  great-grandfather  of  the  writer  and  was 
a  native  of  Murrayshire,  .Scotland,  troni  whicli 
place  he  came  to  .St.  John  about  the  year  1784, 
in  a  vessel  owned  by  himself,  and  laden  with 
tlie  merchandise  with  which  he  commenced 
business  here. 

Among  the  h'ree  Masons  he  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  St.  John's  Lodge,  formerly  a  member 
of  St.  Ceorge's  Lodge,  No.  19,  Maugerville, 
and  one  of  the  original  members  of  (.iarleton 
Royal  Arch  Clia|iter.  In  the  latter  body  he 
was  fust  .Scribe,  or  I'rinciiial  J. 

He  repre.sented  the  city  and  county  of  St. 
John  in  the  I'rovinciai  Legislature  for  the 
long  term  of  seventeen  years;  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  Saint  ndrews  Church,  a  member 
of  the  Huilding  Connnittee,  and  one  of  the 
first  Llders  thereof;  an  incorporator  and  one 
of  the  first  directors  of  the  Hank  of  New  Hruns- 


wick  ;  a  member  of  the  old  Friendly  Fire  Club; 
a  I'ort  Warden  of  the  city  from  1S16  to  1S29; 
an  Alderman  of  the  city  for  180.S  and  many 
succeeding  years.  Johnston's  wharf  and  slip, 
west  side  of  Water  .Street,  received  their  names 
from  him  as  the  owner. 

He  carried  on  a  large  mercantile  and  im- 
porting business,  in  which  he  was  very  suc- 
cessful. W.  ]'".  Hunting,  in  his  "History  of 
I'ree  Masomy  in  New  Hrunswick,"  from  which 
the  foregoing  information  respecting  Hugh 
Johnston,  Sr.,  is  largely  taken,  speaks  of  him 
as  "always  sustaining  a  high  character  for  in- 
tegrity and  strict  business  piinciples, "  and  as 
"a  faithful  friend  and  an  enterprising  and  useful 
member  of  the  community." 

On  December  11,  1.S15,  a  public  meeting 
was  held  at  the  City  Hall,  Market  .Scpiare,  <ni 
behalf  of  tlie  families  killed  ai  d  wmmded  in 
the  Jkittle  of  Waterloo,  the  Hon.  Ward  Chip- 
man  in  the  chair.  Comnnttees  were  appointed, 
and  fourteen  hundicd  and  seventy-two  pounds, 
fifteen  shillings,  six  pence  cidlecled.  Y\mong 
the  principal  subscriliers  were:  William  I'agan, 
fifty  pounds;  Hugh  Johnston,  Sr.,  fifty  pounds; 
Henry  (iilbert,  fifty  pounds;  Thennas  Millidge, 
twenty-five  [louiuls;  Robert  Parker,  .Sr. ,  twenty 
poLuuls ;  David  Jack,  ten  pounds  ("J''oot- 
jirints, "  J.  W.   Lawrence). 

Hugh  Johnston,  Sr. ,  was  one  of  the  owners 
of  the  first  steamboat  built  in  New  Brunswick. 
.She  was  nanied  the  "(ieneral  .Sm\the,"  and 
was  lainiched  from  the  _\ard  uf  John  Lawton, 
Portland,  April,  1816.  This  boat  ran  liclween 
.St.  John  and  l''redericton,  making  one  weekly 
trip  each  way.      He  is  also  statetl  by  Isaiah  W. 


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Wilson,  in  an  interesting  artiLJe  on  early  coni- 
nierce  between  DiK'>y  and  St.  John,  ])ublishe(l 
in  the  August  number  of  the  Xrw  /tn/z/suiiii- 
Mtignzinc  for  the  present  year,  1899,  to  have 
been  one  of  the  owners  of  the  steamer  "St. 
John,"  which  was  the  earliest  steam  craft  to 
cross  the  Jiay  of  I""un(ly.  She  was  schooner- 
rigged,  ha\iiig  foresail,  maitisail,  and  jib,  and 
made  iier  first  tiip  on  Wednesday,  July  4, 
1S27. 

In  a  second  article  published  in  the  same 
number  of  this  magazine,  an  account  of  the 
celebrated  "Fishery  Quarrel  "  is  given  by  the 
Rev.  W.  O.  Raymond,  in  which  Hugh  John- 
ston, .Sr. ,  together  with  (jeorge  Vounghusband, 
endeavored  to  mediate  betwi^en  Messrs.  liazen, 
Simonds  &  White,  but  wit'-out  success.  He 
atldressed  a  conmiunication  to  the  three  parties 
named,  dated  June  9,  i<S03,  the  substance  of 
which,  together  with  that  of  a  second  commu- 
nication, is  published.  'I'lic  extracts  given  are 
quoted  from  the  St.  Jolm  (iii'illc  <iiii/  (I'lUiml 
Ad:ur/ise'r  oi  ]\w<j  25,   1.S03. 

Hugh  Johnston,  .Sr.,  was  born  January  4, 
1756,  and  was  twice  man  ied,  his  first  wife 
being  Ann  (lilzean  (.'),  of  Thornhill,  Parish  of 
l''.lgin,  .Scotland,  wiio  was  horn  December 
17,  \yC)\.,  and  (lied  h'cbruary  4,  1.S05.  His 
remains,  together  with  those  of  his  first  wife 
and  his  t'"Uh  son,  who  died  in  infancy,  are 
buried  at  l'"ernhill  C'emeteiy,  St.  John,  to 
which  the)'  were  removed  from  tlu'  "()1(1  liury- 
ing  (iround,"  .Sydney  .Street,  .St.  John,  in 
1S.S3,  the  writer  having  been  [iresent  at  the 
disinterment  and  removal  of  the  remains. 

The  bdlowing  were  his  children  by  his  tirst 


wife:  John,  born  November  9,  1779,  ilied  in 
Kingston,  Jamaica,  in  the  twenlietii  year  of 
his  age;  William,  born  July  3,  17.S1,  died  in 
his  nineteenth  year  at  Grenatla  Hay;  Charles, 
born  April  8,  1783,  died  April  27,  1808,  at 
Kingston,  Jamaica;  James,  born  September  8, 
1786,  died  February  5,  1815,  at  ]\Iaugerville, 
N.H.  ;  Hugh,  born  April  3,  1790,  died  at  St. 
John  Ajiril  13,  1850,  married,  first.  Miss  Hliss, 
of  I''rcdericton,  N.li,  and,  secondly,  Harriet 
Maria  Millidge;  Alexander,  born  .Scptemher  5, 
1792,  died  b'ebruary  2,  1824,  married  a  Miss 
Hailey  and  was  father  of  James  Johnston,  who 
resided  at  I'Vedericton,  N. H.  ;  William  Robert, 
born  l'"ebruary  17,  1795,  drowned  January  [5, 
1819;  Ann,  born  August  11,  1800,  married 
C'a])tain  Humphrey  Henry  Carmichael,  and  died 
at  Douglas,  Isle  of  Man,  in  1881. 

In  1806  Hugh  Johnston,  .Sr. ,  married  Mar- 
garet Thurburn,  who  was  born  Jidy2i,  1782, 
and  was  a  daughter  of  James  'riuirburn,  of 
Banffshire,  .Scotland,  son  of  Rev.  John  Thiu'- 
burn,  M.  A.,  Julinburgh  graduate  1(^)93,  and 
was  a  lineal  descendant  of  James  Thurbrand, 
who  about  1475  held  lands  in  l.assudden  from 
the  monks  of  Melrose  .\hhey. 

'I'he  genealogy  of  Margaret  'I'lnnburn  is  given 
/;/  i:v/ti/s<>  in  apamjihlet  on  the  Thurburn.s,  i)ub- 
lished  by  Lieutenant  Colonel  I'.  A.  Thurburn, 
in  London,  Lngland,  in  1864. 

Hy  this  second  wife  Hugh  Johnston,  .Sr. , 
had  six  children,  as  follows:  jiaihara,  born  .Se|)- 
tendier  12,  1807,  married  Colonel  .Sir  Charles 
Levinge,  at  one  time  Governor  of  lulinburgh 
Castle,  younger  son  of  Sir  Richard  Levinge, 
Hart.,  of  Nock  Drim   Castle,  Comity   of   West 


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Mcath,  Irclaiul ;  Jdliii,  Ikhii  March  9,  1809, 
manicd  I'll iza  Anderson,  dicii  April  29,  1858; 
Charles,  born  October  2,  181  r  married  Sarah 
Hendricks,  of  St.  John,  and  was  ajipointed 
llit;h  Sheriff,  1847,  died  May  4,  1858,  without 
issue;  Isabella  Thurbinn,  born  January  19, 
i8r5,  married  Ajiril  2\,  i8;t6,  to  Robert 
Young,  solicitor,  of  Mli;in,  Scotland;  Mar- 
garet, born  June  21,  1S18,  married  Robert 
Wilson,  of  iJurnhouse,  Ibnffshirc,  Scotland, 
and  is  still  living  (October,  1899);  James, 
born  I'Y'bruary  20,  1822,  died  y\pril  9,   1823. 

The  Hon.  Hugh  Johnston,  fifth  son  of  Hugh 
Johnston,  Sr. ,  fatiier  of  Annie  Carmichael 
Jack,  was  born  April  3.  1790,  and  was  a  man  of 
strict  integrity,  keen  business  intellect,  great 
legislative  ability,  and  of  generous  and  i)enev- 
(dent  disi)osition.  He  was,  as  Hr.  William 
Hayard  recentl\-  reniaiked  to  tiie  writer,  Ijy  far 
the  leading  man  of  his  day  connnercially  and 
socially  in  the  city  of  St.  John.  He  was  at  an 
early  age  admitted  a  partner  to  the  firm  of 
lltigh  Johnston  &  Co.,  of  which  his  father  and 
uncle  were  the  senior  jiartncrs,  and  was  alile 
to  retire  from  active  commercial  life  at  the  age 
of  thirty-eight,  with  a  fortune  of  twenty  thou- 
sand pounds.  This  he  invested  largely  in  real 
estate,  a  consiilerable  poition  of  whicii  is  now 
held  by  his  descendants.  On  January  i,  1828, 
he  joined  St.  John's  Lodge  of  b'ree  Masons. 

He  was  a  nicndier  of  the  IC.NCcutive  Coimcil 
ot  New  Ibunsw  ilk,  under  llie  a  nended  consti- 
tution, from  .August  15,  1S37,  t(  I'ebruary  16, 
1842,  from  March  21,  1843,  ti  January  31, 
1845,  and  from  l'"ebruary  5,  1846,  to  May  22, 
1848.      He  was  also  a  member  of  tiie  House  of 


As.sembly  for  Queens  County  in  1839,  and  of 
the  Legislative  Council;  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace;  a  trustee  and  vice-president  of  the  City 
of  St.  Joim  Savings  Hank;  a  director  of  the 
Hank  of  New  Hrunswick  ;  a  director  of  the  St. 
John  Water  C'omiiany;  a  Trustee  of  Schools, 
I'ortland;  a  director  of  the  New  Hrunswick 
Mining  Company;  a  director  of  the  St.  John 
I'ublic  (irammar  Scbm..,  anil  was  in  many 
other  ways  intimately  comiected  with  the 
earlier  history  ;uid  commercial  |)rogress  of  tiie 
city  of  St.  Joliii. 

In  1835  an  act  was  passed  t:i  incoiporate  the 
St.  John  Hridge  Company,  with  a  capital  slock 
of  twenty  thousand  jiounds.  The  site  chosen 
was  about  a  cpiarter  of  a  mile  below  the  iirescnt 
susjiension  bridge,  and  Colonel  Thomas  Wyer 
and  the  Hon.  Hugh  Johnston  weie  among  the 
incoiporators  named  in  the  act.  This  bridge 
was  not  a  success,  and  before  its  completion 
fell  into  the  river. 

The  Hon.  Hugh  Johnston  was  twice  mar- 
ried. His  first  wife  was  a  daughter  of  the 
late  Judge  Hliss  of  New  Hrunswick.  His 
second  wife  was  Harriet  Maria  Millidge,  second 
daughter  of  Thomas  Millidge,  Jr.,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Thomas  Millidge,  who  was  Sur- 
vey<ir  General  of  New  Jersey.  She  was  born 
April  30,    1804,  and  died  September  i,   1881. 

Tlie  children  by  this  marriage  w'ere :  Hugh 
H. ,  born  August  12,  1829,  married  Jane  Reid 
(///(■  McQueen),  widow,  and  died  August  15, 
1868;  Louisa,  mariied  Robertson  Hayaril,  died 
September  5,  1881  ;  Thomas  Millidge,  married 
Annie  Townsend  Gilbert,  died  July  10,  1859; 
Isabel,  married  Alexander  Luders  Light,  C.  L., 


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without  issue;  Harriet,  still  livinj;  (May, 
Kjoo),  married  Robert  Newton  Li^l't.  C.  1'^. ,  a 
brother  of  Alexander  1..  Li^lit,  and  is  without 
issue;  So))hia  Mary,  born  September  j",  1837, 
married  James  Rhodes  Ruel,  Collector  of 
Customs  at  St.  John,  N.  1). ,  died  May  14, 
1894;  Annie  Carmichael,  horn  December  17, 
1840,  married  Henry  Jack,  June,  1862,  died 
November  20,  1882.  Three  childien  survive 
them  ;    as  before  set  forth. 

In  1786  Thomas  Millidge  was  elected  the 
representative  of  Digby  in  the  First  Provincial 
Assembly,  and  during  the  twenty  years  follow- 
ing he  filled  a  conspicuous  place  in  the  Legis- 
lature of  the  country.  He  was  afterward 
ajipointcd  a  Justice  of  the  Inferior  Court  of 
Common  I'leas,  and  for  man)'  years  he  contin- 
ued to  hold  that  honorable  position.  He  was 
a  Colonel  in  the  ^Xnnapolis  Militia  in  the 
l''.astern  District,  as  well  as  of  the  Acadian 
Militia  of  the  Western  District,  now  Digby, 
In  1744  he  and  Captain  Howe  were  ajipointed 
a  connniltcc  to  wait  upon  his  Royal  Highness, 
the  Duke  of  Kent,  who  had  just  arrived  in 
Halifa.x,  to  int[uire  when  the  prince  would  be 
pleased  to  receive  the  loyal  address  of  the 
House  of  Assembly. 

He  was  "Custos  Rolulonnn, "  or  president 
of  the  Iknch  of  Magistrates  of  Digby  County, 
for  nearly  twenty  years,  as  well  as  a  leading 
an<l  efficient  Justice  of  the  I'eace.  "In  both 
capacities,"  says  Savary,  "he  proved  a  faithful 
and  u|)right  officer.  In  all  niatleis  touching 
the  Ik'uch  of  Magistrates  his  advice  was  sought 
by   successive    Lieutenant  liovcrnors  in    those 


old  days  of  irresponsible  government;  but  to 
the  hoiuir  of  Thomas  Millidge  be  it  said  he 
was  careful  to  recommend  those  only  to  fill 
public  offices  who  were  worthy  and  capable, 
and  who  therefore  adorned  the  jiositions  to 
which  through  his  ri'conunendatiori  they  had 
been  ajipointed. 

Thomas  Millidge,  .Sr.,  before  mentioned  as 
having  been  the  Sinveyor-general  of  New  Jer- 
sc)-,  was  a  native  of  the  old  C'olony  <if  New 
Jersey,  born  in  1735.  He  was  a  Major  in 
Skinner's  Volunteers.  I'he  following  anecilote 
is  related  of  him  in  A.  W.  Savary's  edition  of 
W.  A.  Calnek's  "History  of  the  Comity  of 
Annapolis"  :• — 

"On  the  ajiproach  of  the  rebel  forces  under 
Washington  toward  the  Lnglish  army,  whose 
headc|uarters  were  then  at  or  in  tlu'  vicinity  of 
New  York,  the  Uritish  cumniandcr,  being  de- 
sirous of  obtaining  a  correct  knowledge  of  the 
pfisition  and  force  of  the  enemy,  with  a  view 
to  an  attack,  called  for  the  ser\  iiis  of  :\  sufii- 
cientl)'  daring,  yet  jirudent  and  conijietenl, 
person  to  secure  the  information  sought.  It 
was  well  understood  that  an\  one  taken  in  the 
Aniericau  lines  without  a  pass  wciuld  be  liable 
to  forfeit  his  life  as  a  sjiy.  Cool  and  deter- 
mined, Thomas  Millidge  assumed  the  task, 
and  executed  it  with  entire  success,  as  the 
secpiel  will  show. 

"Having  dressed  himseit  as  a  farmer  of  the 
district  and  removed  the  pocket-linings  from 
the  c.'ipacious  skirls  of  his  coat,  he  ])laced  in 
its  thus  widened  recesses  a  small  package  ol 
cardboards  cut  into  stpiares,  and  nund)ered  and 
so  arranged  that  he  coidd  easily  secure  the  re- 


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([uiicd  ]iiL'ci.'  wliL'ii  wantcil,  witliout  the  aid  of 
the  eye;  ami,  having  also  placed  therein  a  pen- 
cil and  all  the  materials  necessary  to  his  pnr- 
pose,  he  set  ont  boldly  toward  t!ie  head(|iiarters 
of  the  rebel  conimaiider,  and  soon  contri\ed  to 
lia\e  himself  arrested  and  taken  into  his  pres- 
ence. On  beinj;-  cpiestionetl  by  Washington, 
who  informed  him  that  be  had  been  sei/etl  as 
a  spy,  he  miivcly  inquired  of  his  interrogator 
if  he  were  not  the  people's  friend,  adroitly 
adding  that,  if  he  were  not,  he  had  been  cruelly 
deceived  and  imposed  upon  by  the  man  who 
had  told  him  if  he  wanted  to  see  an  army  he 
could  do  so  in  safety  by  coming-  here:  and  he 
bad  done  so  to  see  the  peojde's  aimy,  and  per- 
haps a  battle.  Jiul,  as  it  seemed  he  had  been 
betrayed  into  going  into  the  wrong  place,  he 
hoped  his  e.xcellency  would  let  him  go  back 
to  bis  family  and  farm,  in  which  case  he  inoni- 
ised  he  would  never  leave  tlicni  again  while  he 
lived. 

"All  this  was  said  with  such  rustic  sim- 
plicity, earnestness,  and  ajiiiarent  truthfulness, 
that  Washington,  who  was  entirel)'  thrown  off 
bis  guard,  gave  the  countryman  a  pass,  to  en- 
able him  to  satisfy  his  supposeil  desire  to  see 
what  might  become  a  battlefield  (and  which 
did  in  fact  become  one  a  few  weeks  later),  and 
to  put  it  in  his  power  to  re|)ort  to  his  sym|ia- 
thizing  neighbors  the  strength  of  tlie  Conti- 
nental Army  and  its  almost  certain  pro.spects 
of  success  when  the  time  should  come  to  strike 
a  blow  against  its  enemy.  Thus,  armed  with 
permission,  he  entered  the  lines  and  com- 
menced his  work.  Witli  his  hands  plunged 
into  his  cai)acious  coat-skirts  and  with  a  pencil 


in  one  of  them  and  the  package  of  cardboards 
so  arranged  that  number  one  was  turned  in 
a  proper  manner  to  be  used,  he  sauntered 
through  the  camji,  sketching,  unseen  and  se- 
cretly, the  jiosition  of  streanis,  hills,  ravines, 
villages,  ai'd  other  features  of  the  place  and  of 
the  surroniuling  country,  with  the  sites  antl 
strength  of  batteries  and  other  required  partic- 
ulars. Immediately  after  his  departure  the 
rough  notes  which  were  thus  taken  were  re- 
<luced  into  order,  and  a  plan  niade  from  tlu'U) 
of  sufficient  accuracy  to  enable  the  ICnglish 
commander  to  execute  a  successful  attack  upon 
the  rebel  position.  As  a  rewartl  for  these  ser- 
vices, he  received  a  military  appoinlmenl  in 
connection  with  which  he  continued  to  serve 
with  energy,  skill,  and  faithfulness  until  the 
close  of  the  war.  " 

In  1783  he  removeil  with  his  family  to 
Digby,  N.  S.,  wheie  he  resided  for  a  number 
of  years.  His  losses  by  the  war  were  heavy, 
including  some  large  tracts  of  land  of  which 
he  was  the  owner,  and  which  in  later  years 
became  extremel)'  valuable.  Several  years 
prior  to  his  removal  to  Digby  he  married  Sarah 
Botsford,  daughter  of  Amos  Jiotsford,  of  New- 
town, Conn.,  who  also  was  a  Loyalist  exile. 

Mr.  Millidge's  family  was  as  follows:  The 
Rev.  John  Millidge,  IJ.C.  L.,  long  rector  of 
(iranville  and  Anna])olis;  Ste|)hen  Millidge, 
who  married  .Sarah  Hotsford,  by  whom  he  bad 
seven  children;  Thomas  IMillidge,  Jr.,  born 
vVugust  12,  1776;  I'bincas  Millidge,  who  mar- 
ried Catherine,  daughter  of  the  late  l''.bi;iie/ei 
Cutler. 

Thomas  Milliilge,  Jr.,   resided   at    St.  John, 


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N.  H.  lie  was  an  cm  incut  inoicliant,  a  niaj^is- 
tiatc,  and  a  member  of  the  llmise  ol  Assembly. 
lie  niairied  Sarah  Simomls,  who  was  horn  Oc- 
t(il)er  2,  1777,  and  was  the  seioiul  claiij;hter  ol' 
James  Simonds.  CliiKhen:  Mercy  Ilaiinali, 
born  May  17,  1.S02,  married  (icorge  Duncan 
I'iojjinson,  died  March  3,  1S67;  Harriet  Maria, 
born  April  30,  i.S(i4.  died  September  1,  iSSi, 
married  the  lion,  llunh  joiiiistoii,  wlio  died 
April  13,  1S50,  having  had  seven  chikiren  — 
lhij;h  Mliss,  Louisa,  Thomas  Millidj;e,  Isabel, 
Harriet,  SopJiia  Mary,  and  Annie  t'arniicluiel  ; 
Isaiiella  Ann,  born  January  6,  1X06,  died  iJe- 
ceml)er,  14,  1S75,  married  Heveiley  Rol)inson  ; 
Louisa,  born  October  i.  1807,  died  in  1.S74,  mar- 
ried Major  William  Henry  Robinson;  Sojjhia, 
born  May  23,  i  S09,  died  Au-ust  22,  1S15; 
Sarah,  born  October  i,  iSio,  married  John 
Kinncar;  Celia,  born  October  29,  rSir,  died 
Auj;iist  30,  lcS74,  nnuried  John  Morris  Robin- 
son; J'jiima,  born  October  jy,  iSii,  died  May 
22,  iiSrnj;  Thomas  Julward,  born  December 
18,  1814,  married  Sarah  White,  died  Au};ust, 
1894;  James  Simcnuls,  born  January  14,  1817, 
died  Auj;ust  31,  1817;  llenry  (ieorne,  i)orn 
I""ebruary  5,  1819,  died  Auf;ust  18,  i8ig; 
James  Simonds,  born  September  8,  1822,  died 
Decend)er  3,   1845, 

Of  the  family  of  Thomas  Millidf;e,  Jr.,  it 
will  be  observed  that  four  dauf;liters  married 
four  broth.ers,  all  sons  of  the  Hon.  John  Rob- 
inson, of  New  \'ork,  and  ;;raiuls(ins  of  Colonel 
)ie\erley  Robinson,  of  that  city. 

Harriet  Maria,  whom.uiicd  the  Hon.  Hugh 
Johnston,  was  maternal  1;  amhncither  of  the 
writer. 


in  brinj;in;;  to  a  close  what  must  of  neces- 
sity be  a  very  brief  anil  much  coiulenseil  sketch 
of  the  lives  of  many  men,  all  in  a  greater  or 
lesser  degree  conneited  with  himself  by  ties  of 
heredity  and  consanguinits ,  llie  writer  feels 
that  a  brief  notice  should  be  given  of  James 
Simonds,  born  at  llaverhill,  Mass.,  Decembi'r 
10,  1735,  died  i-'ebruarv  20,  1831,  at  St.  John, 
N.li.,  from  wliom  he  is  one  of  m.iny  de- 
scendants. 

Mr.  .Simonds  was  a  great-giandson  of  W'ill- 
iam  Simonds,  who  settled  at  W'oburn,  Mass., 
in  1(144,  liaviiig  come  to  America  in  tlie  shi|) 
"I'lanter,"  which  sailed  from  London  Apiil  2, 
1635.  it  is  related  that  Judith  I'hippen,  who 
afterward  married  William  Simonds,  was  a 
fellow  ])assenger  with  him  in  the  "I'lanter," 
and  that,  as  the  ship  was  Hearing  the  American 
coast,  land  was  first  descried  l)\-  her  which 
proved  to  be  the  now  well-known  headland 
calleil  I'oint  Judith. 

James  .Simonds  was  a  pre  i.o3alisl.  He 
settled  at  the  nimitli  of  the  .St.  John  Ri\er 
about  the  vear  \/Cio,  a  \oung  man,  unmarried, 
full  of  the  strength  and  vigor  of  life,  of  robust 
constitution  and  of  g.,  'd  education. 

On  the  9lh  of  November,  1767,  he  mari  ied 
Hannah  I'eabody,  daughter  of  Captain  John 
J'eabod)'.  Hi'  bad  eight  children  James, 
William,  I'rank,  (jeorge,  Henry,  Sarah,  Han- 
nah, and  Ann  ICIi/.a.  IK',  together  with  James 
White,  carried  on  a  verv  large  jiusiness  at 
I'lirtland  Point;  and  with  them  were  afterward 
associated  William  H.   Ilazen  and  others. 

The  story  of  their  lives,  of  their  dilTiculties 
with  the  Indians,  their  losses  in  consequence 


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of  the  American  Revolutionary  War,  the  enor- 
mous extent  and  variety  of  the  l)usine.s.ses  they 
carried  on,  tlie  various  enti'rprises  the)-  estal)- 
lished  ami  sueeesslully  inaintaiiied,  is  tiilly 
told  ill  a  seiies  of  articles  from  llie  pen  cit  the 
Rev.  W.  ().  Raymond,  of   St.  John,   i)ul)lishe(l 


make  many  interesting  extracts  from  this  hook. 
It  is  siilTicient  for  tlie  purjiose  of  the  present 
sketch  to  say  of  him  tliat  nu  other  iiulividual 
has  done  nmre  tliaii  he  to  ailvance  tlie  interests 
and  to  develo])  the  resources  of  tliis,  the  prov- 
ince of  iiis  adi'ption,  tlian  did  James  Simonds. 


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ni.  ir)43. 

Wii.i.iAM  SiMONi)S=  Jiinrni  I'mipi'KN  Kuwakh  IIa/k.n  -^  Hannah  Ckani.        t  ai'I.  Jumn  I'KAimDY 

settled  in  Woburn,  I       <l.  Jan.  5,  1(190.  a    resident     of   I 

Mass.,  ill  1641).         I  I'tiiwk-y,  Mass.,    | 

d. ,  1670.          I  i6.iy.                     I 


I        ni.  r'eb.  10,  1685. 
JAMK.S   SlMOMlS  =  SUSANNA  Itl.ddCKT  (Hlodget). 

b.  Oit.  1 1, 1657.  I 


I  m.  I'eli.  24,  1735.  I 

Natiianiki,  Simonds  =- Sarah  IIa/.kn. 
of    Haverhill,   Mass 

I). 

<l. .1757-  

Will  lAM    InllNSTciN         ls\lll;l.    lllllllKN.       TllOMAS  MlI.IIDOK  =  MkRCV 


Richard  IIazkn  =  Mary  ri'AiKinv. 

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CaIT.   JnllN    I'KAllilDY 

I).  

d. ,  177,5, 

I         m.  Nov.  0,  1767.         1 
Jamks  Simonds  =  Hannah  I'l-Aiioiiy. 

b. 1  I7I5'  Surveyor  (ien.  of  li. I),  at  Haverhill,  ] 

(I.  Aug.  12,  17S9.  New  Jersey.  d.  iSjo, agedSi.       Ma-s,  Dec.  10. 

Ii. ,  I7.55-  "735i   >!■    •''el'-  I 

d. ,  1816.  20,  1831.  I 

in.  June  .VI,  m''.  |  !  | 

Wil.t.iAM   Jack  =^  Maroarki-  S.mihi  llrcii  Jomnsion  -    .Ann  f;ii./.i:\N(?)   Thomas  Mill, iikik,  Jr.  -   Sarah  Simonhs. 


1).  Jan  4,  1756. 
d.  Nov.  29,  1829. 


Hailieof  Cupar, 
Kife,  .Sciitlaiul. 

r 

Daviii  Wii.i.iam  Ja(  k       Kkihiia   Ki  sski.i,  Wver. 


b.  Dec.  17,17(11.       I).  Aug.  12,  1776. 
d.  Kel).  .(,  1805.        d.  Aug.  21,  18.5S. 


b.  Oct.  2,  1777. 
d.  Sept.  11,1857. 


I).  I'eb.  25,   1785,  al 
('u|)ar,  I'ife. 


Ii.  July  22,  17.SS. 


Hon.  Iluiai  Joiinsicin       Harriii   Maria  .Mii.i.id(;k. 


1).  .\pr.  3,  171)0. 
d.  Apr.  13,  1.S50. 


b.  Ajir.  )o,  i,So.(. 
d.  Sept.  I,  1881. 


IIknry  Jaik       Annik  ('\rmi(|iah,  John.ston. 


1).  May  1 1,  |82.|, 
d.  (Xt.  28,  1884. 


I).  Dec.  17,  i8.|o, 
d.  Nov.  20,  lS,S2 


DAVID   Kl'SSKM,    lACK. 


rl' 


ill  the  .\',-u'  /Iniiisi.wci-   .U,iX(i::/ui;  coninieiicin^  ]        Of  resolute  character,  sinewd  and  enleriiris- 

with    its    initial    nuniher,  dated   July    1,   i.SijS.  iiiy,  he  was,  as  Mr.  Raymond  says,  posses.sed  of 

llere    many   valuable    letters    and    documents,  '  a  \'i;;()rous  constitution,  as  is  seen    in   the  fact, 

hitherto  unpuhlished,  are  j^iveii   tn  the   public,  that,   in   spite  of   the  hardships  and   privatimis 

aiui  the  story  of  their  lives  related  in  a  contin-  ;  nl'   liis  eail\-  life    in   .St.  John,  he    survived   all 

uous   manner    fur    the    first    time.      Did    s|)ace  1  his   contemporaries,    as   well    as   every   official 

permit,  the  writer  wmikl  desire  exceedingly  to  ■  and   appointee  of  the  crown,  at  the  lime  of  the 


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or^anizntion  tif  tlii'  I'roviiue,  and  i-'VLTy  inonilicr 
of  the  first  I'rovinciiil  I,cj;islaturc,  and  (|iiictly 
tk'partcd  this  life  at  iiis  old  residence  at  Port- 
land I'oint,  l'"el)ruary  20,  1S31,  at  the  |)atri- 
archal  age  of  ninety-six. 

DAVin    RUSSELL  JACK. 

AITIIOKITIKS    CONSl'I.TKI). 

l.nyali.sts  of  America,!))  I.orcii/o  S.ihiiie;  Citnealo- 
jjics  and  lOslalos  of  L'liarlcstown,  by  Thomas  Wyiiian  ; 
I  li.sloriial  Skflcli  of  Cliailesto'vn,  liy  Josi.ili  UarllctI, 
M.U.,  1S15;  History  of  the  County  of  Annapolis.  Iiy 
\V.  A.  CahiL'k.  edited  l>y  A.  \V.  Savary,  M..\.;  History 
of  Nova  .Scotia,  liy  lieaniisli  Murdoeli  ;  .\cw  Hrunswick 
Maj{azine.  articles  liy  Kev.  \V.  ().  Kaymond ;  Collec- 
tions of  .N'uvv  Hrunswick  Historical  Society;  .New 
Hrunswick  .\lnianacks,  puMished  liy  II.  Cludih  iS;  Co. 
and  others;  I'ree  Masonry  in  New  Hrunswick,  by  W.  V. 
Hunting; ;  Kootprints.  by  J.  W.  Lawrence;  Loyalist 
Centennial  .Souvenir,  published  by  New  Hrunswick  His- 
torical Society;  Scottish  Nation,  by  William  Anderson; 
The  Thurbiirns,  by  Lieutenant  Colonel  K.  A.  V.  Thiir- 
burn;  New  Hrunswick.  by  .Abraham  (Jcsner;  i;nj;lish 
Surnames,  by  C,  W,  liardsley,  .M..\.:  Kecords  of  Kej;- 
istrar  (leneral,  lMinliur;;h.  Scotland;  History  of  St. 
John,  N.H..  by  1).  K.  J;ick. 


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{•ni'lR  McI'ARLANK,*  of  the  firm  of 
Mfl-'arlane,  'i'lidmiison  &  ;\nders(>n, 
was  iiiirn  in  Diuigjass,  ^'ork  Coiiiity, 
N.JV ,  son  (if  IVter  and  Ilekn  {(Iraliani)  Mi- 
]''ai]aiie. 

His  father,  I'eter  McKarlane,  Sr. ,  wa.s  born 
in  Aijjyle,  .Scotland,  lie  learned  the  black- 
smith':! trade  in  Cilast^nw,  .Srotlai.d,  and  after 
lie  came  to  America  he  worked  in  St.  |ohii 
and  hitcr  in  b'lederii ton.      At  Douglass  a  .shop 


was  i)iiilt  !))■  tiic  citizens  as  an  indiiicmcnt  lor 
him  to  locate  tliere,  and  he  carried  on  business 
in  that  |)Iace  for  .sometime.  He  died  at  si.xty- 
eight  years  of  age.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
I'resbyterian  church.  His  wife,  Mrs.  Helen 
(iraham  Mcb'.irhine,  who  was  born  in  Rockby- 
shire,  Scotland,  li\cd  to  be  se\enty-foiir. 
They  were  the  parents  of  five  sons  and  a 
daughter  —  (ieorge,  Walter,  William,  Alexan- 
der, Margaret,  and  I'eter.  (ieorge  Mcl"'arl;»ne 
resides  on  tlie  old  iiomcstead.  W  iiiiam  Mc- 
l'"arlane  is  a  furniei-.  y\lexander,  a  black- 
smith, died  at  about  twenty-eight  years  of  age. 
I'eter,  the  youngest  child,  ;K(|iiired  his  edu- 
cation in  the  common  ;md  liigh  schools  of 
I''redericton.  lie  then  learned  the  iron 
moulder's  trade,  at  which  he  was  w<irking  in 
South  Hoston,  M;\ss.,  at  the  time  of  the  Civil 
War.  KetiMning  home  he  engaged  in  tiie 
m;inufact;ire  of  carri  'cs  witii  his  father  and 
brotiiers,  the  business  being  carrie<i  on  under 
the  name  of  I'eter  i\Iel'"arlane  &  Sons.  They 
continued  together  for  ten  or  fifteen  years.  In 
liS;!  I'eter,  Jr.,  with  bis  brother  Walter  ;ind 
V.  r.  'riicimpson,  lidiight  tiie  land,  rebuilt  Ibe 
foinulry,  whiih  IkkI  been  biirneil,  and  re-estab- 
lished the  business  of  which  their  present 
large  ])lant  is  the  outcome.  They  hiiill  the 
moulding  department,  the  machine  shop  and 
blacksmith  shop,  ;in(l  iia\e  ;i  large  storehouse 
and  paint  shop.  TIh'  plant  of  the  New  Hruns- 
wick I'"ouiulry,  by  which  n;ime  their  enteriirise 
ha.s  long  been  known,  now  covers  about  an 
acre  of  land.  They  make  the  Huckeye  auto- 
matic cut  off  engines,  the  celel)r;ited  patented 
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mills,  ciicliiscd  }^c;ir  iiiDwcrs,  Itliac-a  horse 
Hikes,  stows,  steam  ciii;iiK's,  aiul  mill  nuichin- 
I'ly  (if  variiiiis  kinds,  ]iullfys,  hant;crs,  aiiii 
shaftiiij^. 

Mr.  M(.I''arlanc  was  married  in  1X451(1  Mary 
y\nii  McCldiid.  'I'hcy  have  four  ehildren, 
namely:  Marry  I-".,  a  graduate  of  the  l'"rederie- 
ton  Hi^h  Schocd  ;  Clara  A.  ;  Alice  .Maud;  and 
Robert  Ihuce.  Harry  I".  Mcl''arlane  learned 
telegraphy,  and  lias  filled  responsible  jiositions 
in  St.  Louis  and  Texas  with  various  railroads. 
He  is  at  present  in  a  j;dod  jxisition  in  St. 
Loui.s,  Mo.  Mr.  I'eter  Mcl-'arlane  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Hiram  l.od^'e,  1-'.  &  A.  M.,  in  which  he 
has  served  in  the  different  chairs,  and  of  St. 
Andrew's  Order. 


f^y^VRCV.  Ul'HAM  HAV,  M.A..  I'n.H., 
\Pj.      a  prominent  cdi.cau.inist  of  St.  John, 
N.  H.,    is    a    native    of    New    Hrunswick.      He 
was    born    at     Xorton,    Kin-s    County,     June 
i,S,    1843,    .son    of    William    and    l';iiza    Hay. 
Through  his  father  he    is   of   .Scotch   descent, 
and  on  his  mother's  side  he   is  of  I'niled   Em- 
pire Loyalist  stock.      He  v>as  ed;icated   in  the 
schools  of   Kings  County;  and  a'ter  teaching 
for  several    years    took     a    special    cour.se    in 
literature  and  natural  science  at  Cornell  Uni- 
versity, Ithaca,  N.V.      Returning  to  St.  John, 
he  was  engaged  for  several  years  in  journalistic 
work  on   the  />,i//_y  .\'i  a'.v,  first   as  reimrter  and 
afterward   as   the    night    editor   of    that    paper. 
He  resumed  te.iching   in    iS;.?,  and   r(n-  nearly 
t'venty-fivj    years    occupied    various    positions 
on    the   teaching  staff   of    St.  John   City.      He 


was   for   nine  years   jirincipal   of  the  V'ictoria 
and  Girls'    High    School,    the  high    character 
and  efficiency  of  which  he  maintained  and   in- 
creased.     He  has  been  a  member  of  the  I'ki- 
vincial  Teachers'  institute  of    New  Ihunswick 
ever  since    its   formation,    contributing   papers 
to   it    and  otiierwise  taking  an   active  part    in 
its    |)rocecdings.      He  al.so    took  a   prominent 
part  in  organizing  the  Dominion   I'.ducational 
Association,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  first 
board  of  directors.     At  the  first  meeting  of  this 
association    in    .Montreal,    in    iS();,,    he   read   a 
pajier   on   "Ideal    .School    Discijiline, "    and   at 
the  Halifa.\  meeting,  in  i.S(jS,  another  on  "Nat- 
ure and   Literature."      He  served  on   the   Do- 
minion   History    C'ommittee    on    Manuscripts 
from    |H(J4  to  i.S(jr>.      In    1S.S6  he  was  chosen 
editor  of  the  New   Hrunswick  Jonnial  of  Hdii- 
(■(itinii,    with    Inspector  W.  S.  Carter    as  asso- 
ciate editor.      At  the  end   of   a   year  this   was 
merged  into  the  luiiiuUioiia/  Ri-i'ic:^',  with    Dr. 
A.  H.  MacKay  editor  for  Nova  Scotia  and  Dr. 
Anderson    editor    for    i'rince    Ldward    Island. 
Mr.  Hay  has  had  entire  control  of  the  business 
and  editorial  management  of   the  A'tTvVr.'  from 
the  date  of  its  foundation  in  1.S.S7;  and  in  1  S(j7 

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he  gave  up  his  p(jsition  as  teacher  in  order  to 
devote  himself  more  c(mii)letely  to  eduiational 
journalism,  of  which  he  may  be  said  to  be  the 
lounder  in  these  I'rovinces.  In  i.S(jS  Mr.  Hay 
began  the  publication  of  a  series  of  (piaiterly 
leaflets  on  "Canadian  History."  The  series 
is  not  yet  comi)leted. 

]\Ir.  Hay  has  devoted  his  s|)are  moments  for 
manv  years  to  the  study  of  the  botany  of  New 
Hrunswick,  in  which  he  is  a  recogni/.ed  author- 


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l)i'i'n  piiljlishcil,  iliic'lly  in  the  lUillclin  nf  tlic 
Natuiiil  llistiiiy  Smicty  dl  New  Unmswiik 
and  in  tlic  I'nui'cdin^^s  nf  lliu  Knyal  Sdiicty 
(il  I'.mada,  and  i'ini)iaiL'  the  fidhiwinj;  aniiin}{ 
Dthers :  "New  Unniswiek  I'lora  "  (a  series  of 
papers  on  tin-  |il.ints  dl  the  St.  John  and  its 
tiilmtaries,  tlie  Kesligoiielie  and  Nepisi;;iiil )  ; 
"llisttiry  ol  Jintaiiy  in  New  lirunswick"; 
"Marine  Alj^a-  of  New  Hninswiik,  with  List.  ' 
lie  was  elected  tn  reliiiu>hip  in  tlie  Royal 
Society  in  |S()4,  and  is  a  member  of  Section 
l-'oiir,  111  wiiich  seition  he  is  now  (1900)  secre- 
tary, lie  is  a  menilier  of  the  New  Mnyland 
Untanicai  Clui)  nf  linslon  and  secretary  for 
New  lirnnswick  of  tlie  Hotanical  Clul)  of  Can- 
ada, has  been  twice  president  of  the  Summer 
School  of  Science  of  the  Atlantic  I'rovinces, 
and  for  the  past  four  years  has  been  the  presi- 
dent of  tlie  Natural  History  Soi-iety  of  .New 
Urnnswick. 

Mr.  Hay  holds  the  (K'i;iee  of  Hai'helor  of 
Philosophy  fioni  the  Illinois  WesU'van  I'ni- 
versity  and  the  de;,'ree  of  Master  of  Arts 
{/ui)/<'i/s  iiiiisn)  from  .\iadia  rniversitw  In 
1876  he  married  l'"iaiues  .\nnetta  llartt, 
daii<;hter  of  the  late  Jar\is  W.  Haitt  and  sister 
of  the  late  Professor  Charles  I'red.   llartt. 


I.KSON      .M. /NHRNKV, 

■     ^^.,    a        -i         vounj; 

'hn,    '  was  born 

;y,  N.Jl. ,  March   24, 

I  \  the   Hon.   (  Uven  and 

ly    (Mc.\     .))    MUnerney.       Hi      paternal 


grandfather,  Daniel  Mclnerne\',  emi;;rated  with 
liis  fan)ily  from  County  l.ouf^ford,  Ireland,  to 
New  Urimswiik,  when  Owen  was  a  small  boy. 
His  maternal  f;randfather,  Daniel  MeAuley, 
was  in  the  jjood  old  clays  one  of  the  foremost 
ship  buildi'rs  in  Ni'w  Hrunswick. 

The  Hon.  (  Iwen  Mcliu'rney  became  a  pros- 
perous merchant,  acipiired  considerable  promi- 
nence in  public  affairs,  and  w;  s  electe<l  in 
\^()C\  as  an  anli-confedcrate,  to  tlu'  .Ni'W 
Uiunswick  l.cf^isl.iture  for  the  cmmt)  of  Kent, 
which  iciuutv  is  at  the  iiresent  tinu'  repre- 
sented in  the  C.madi.in  Commons  by  bis 
son,  (ieor^e  X'alentine  Miluerney.  Owen  Me- 
Inerney  was  ajjpointed  Legislative  Coinicillor 
in  '^(n),  and  retained  that  position  until  his 
death    in  1S90. 

James  Peterson  Mclnerney  i^radnated  from 
St,  Joseph's  L'niveisiiy  with  the  de^'ree  of 
Hachelor  of  .\its  in  1S7S,  and  received  the 
degree  of  Master  of  .Arls  from  the  same  insti- 
tution ill  iNi)7.  His  nicdiral  studies  were 
pmsued  at  McCill  Cniversily,  Montii'al ;  and 
he  graduated  as  "I'in.il  PrizeuKin  "  with  the 
class  of  i,S,S.).  On  June  1  of  tli.it  year  be 
located  ill  .St.  John,  N.l!.,  where  his  abilitN' 
Soon  brought  him  into  iiroiiiiueiice  ;  and  he  has 
built  up  a  lucrative  praitice, 

( )n  June  5,  lSS(j,  Dr.  Mcliiemey  was  united 
in  marria.t;e  with  l''|oreiice  M.  Travels,  dau,L;li 
ter  of  Dr.  Hovie  Travels,  of  .St.  John,  \.  li. 
He  has  live  children;  nanielv,  Kathleen  M., 
I'Morence  M.,  Geralil  Travers,  !•" ranees  Juleen, 
and  Cecil  Travers. 

Ihe  doctor  belongs  to  the  Dominion,  Mari- 
lime,    and    New    Hrunswick    Medical    Associa- 


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HOMA.S  MAI.liiY.  the  oldest  native 
resident  and  business  man  of  New- 
castle, Miramichi,  was  born  in  this  place  in 
I1S18,  son  of  Thomas  Haker  and  Margaret 
(Kerton)  Maltby.  llis  j^randfather  on  the 
paternal  side,  also  named  Thomas,  was  a  sea- 
faring; man.  While  C()nve\iiiy  a  cartjo  of  coal 
he  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  l-Vench,  and  con- 
fined in  a  I""rench  prison  until  the  close  of  the 
war  then  bein<'  carried  on  between  France  and 
ICngland.  Tlie  subject  of  tiiis  sketcii  lias  in 
his  possession  an  autoj^rapli  letter  written  by 
his  f,'randfather  Malli)y  while  a  |)risoner, 
which  is  both  well  written  and  well  [ireserved, 
every  word  being  as  legible  as  print.  It  is 
dated  July  0,    I. Si 2. 

Thomas  Hakcr  Malti)y  was  a  native  of  Dur- 
ham, I'.ngland,  born  in  1792.  He  learned 
the  trade  of  joiner  and  cabinet-m;iker,  serv- 
ing a  seven  years"  ap|)renticeship,  according  to 
the  custom  in  those  days.  lie  also  sjient 
some  si.x  years  as  a  sailor,  three  as  an  appren- 
tice and  three  as  seaman,  .Subse(|uently 
coming  to  New  Brunswick,  he  settled  iiere  in 
1S17,  when  there  were  iuit  three  licuses  in  the 
place,  inchhling  his  own,  the  others  being 
those  of  11.  McCuUam  and  John  Ledden.  lie 
married  in  luigland  Miss  Margaret  Kerton,  of 
Suiulerland,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  four 
sons  and  two  daughters,  one  of  tlie  daugh':ers 
iieing  born  in  ijigiand.  Tiiey  were  as  fol- 
lows:   Marv    .\nn,    wiio    became    the    wife    of 


Hiram  I-'isb,  and  died  when  seventy-five  years 
of  age;  Thomas,  who  is  the  special  subject  of 
this  sketch;  Robert,  who  died  in  California  at 
the  age  of  forty-two;  (ieorge,  who  died  when 
a  boy  of  eleven  years;  John,  who  is  now  a 
resilient  of  Seattle,  Wash. ;  Margaret,  who 
married  Charles  .Simonds,  and  died  in  Lon- 
don, I'^ngland,  in  l''ebruary,  1899.  The  par- 
c.its  were  members  of  the  Cnurch  of   ICngland. 

Thomas  Maltby  was  reared  in  his  native 
town  of  Newcastle,  Miramiciii,  and  received 
his  education  in  the  common  schools.  .Xt  the 
early  age  of  twelve  years  he  began  to  learn 
the  trade  of  carpenter  and  joiner,  working 
witli  llis  fatlier,  with  whom  he  remained  for 
some  years.  In  1 S4 1  he  began  working  for 
himself  on  Russell's  Island  as  a  ship-joiner, 
and  remained  there  two  years.  He  then  es- 
tablished himself  in  business  in  Newcastle, 
where  lie  lias  since  remained.  Besides  ship- 
ear[)enter  work,  he  has  carried  on  an  under- 
taking business  since  1835,  at  first  in  com- 
]);iny  witli  his  father,  but  since  his  father's 
death  alone.  .\mong  other  work  of  this 
nature  he  made  the  cutTm  for  King  Julian, 
chief  of  the  Micmac  Indians. 

He  was  married  first  in  1.S40  to  Miss  Mary 
Morgan,  a  native  of  Belfast,  Ireland,  who 
came  to  Newcastle  in  1820  when  a  cliild.  Of 
this  i:nion  were  born  six  sons,  namely: 
(ieorge,  who  died  at  the  age  of  four  \ears; 
Benjamin,  who  died  in  1869,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-cigiU;  Robert,  who  dietl  in  childhood, 
when  about  seven  \ears  and  six  months  old; 
Thomas,  who  died  in  1 87 1,  ,it  the  age  of 
twenty-live;  Charles,  who  is  now  a  resident  of 


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Nelson,  H. C.  ;  and  William  James,  born  in 
1849,  who  (lied  in  December,  189.S. 

Mr.  Maltby's  second  wife,  Marf^aret  A. 
Klymcs,  whom  he  niarrieil  in  1S53,  became 
the  mother  of  live  children,  of  wiiom  the  fol- 
lowing is  a  brief  record:  John  Kerton,  born  in 
1854,  (lied  in  May,  1871;  Richard  Leij^dilon, 
born  .September  8,  iS5d,  in  business  witli 
his  father:  Iliram  liaker,  boni  in  1859,  iinder- 
tal<er  in  Cam]  licllton,  N.H.  ;  Arthur  A.,  born 
in  1 86 1,  died  when  a  year  old;  and  Mary  M., 
born  in  1863.     Mrs.  Maltby  died  in  June,  1893. 

[Thonias  .Maltiiy  died  Marcii  14,  1900.) 

Major  Riciiakh  L.  Maltiiv,  son  of  Thomas 
and  Margaret  A.  Maltby,  was  born  in  New- 
castle, .September  8,  1S56.  ile  received  iiis 
education  at  llarkin  Acadeni\',  and  then 
served  an  apprenticeship  to  the  carpenter's  and 
joiner's  trade,  which  he  followed  for  some  six- 
teen years.  In  1880  he  en^aijed  in  the  under- 
taking^ business;  and  in  1888  he  and  his  fatiier 
formed  a  partnership  as  dealers  in  mill  and 
steamship  sujiplies,  heatinj;  apparatus,  plumb- 
ing, and  undertaking;,  in  which  industries  they 
carry  on  the  leadinj;  business.  In  1872  be 
joined  the  Seventy-third  Battalion,  under  t!a|;- 
tain  Ramsey;  but,  tlie  C(im|)any  being  dis- 
banded that  year,  he  joined  in  the  following 
year  the  Newcastle  I'ield  Mattery,  under  Cap- 
tain (now  Colonel)  Call.  January  j8,  1875, 
he  went  with  the  battery  to  Hatlun\st,  and 
servcvl  forty-two  days,  guarding  the  jail  dur- 
ing the  sihool  not  at  Cara(piette,  Gloucester 
County.  In  .\ugust,  1875,  he  was  made  Hom- 
bardier.     In  1876  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank 


of  Corporal,  and  on  November  22  of  that  year 
he  joined  the  Royal  School  of  Artillery  for  a 
three  months'  course.  In  1878  he  was  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  Sergeant,  in  1880  be- 
coming Sergeant  Major.  In  1892  he  drilled 
with  the  battery  as  Lieutenant,  and  in  the 
same  year  received  his  commission  to  that 
rank.  In  i8(;4  he  was  cummissioned  C'aptain, 
and  on  the  retirement  of  Colonel  Call  lie  was 
placed  in  c(nnmand  of  the  Twelfth  h'ield 
Uattery.  In  1897  he  went  to  the  Royal 
School  of  .\rtillery  at  (Juebcc,  and  received 
his  commission  as  Major  with  the  command  of 
the  battery,  it  being  at  that  time  a  four-gun 
battery.  It  is  now  a  six-gim  battery,  and 
musters  a  total  of  one  hmulrcd  and  two  officers 
and  men,  In  1883  he  joined  the  Artillery 
Shoeburyness  Team  to  compete  witli  re|)re- 
.sentative  English  Volunteer  Artillery,  and 
assisted  in  winning  the  cup  jiresented  by  the 
Mar(|uis  of  Lome  for  rcjjository  comi)etition. 

In  1883  Major  Maltby  took  a  trij)  to  I'jig- 
land,  where  he  visited  the  home  of  his  grand- 
father, he  being  the  first  member  of  the 
family  to  visit  the  ;incestr,il  home  since  his 
grand[)arents'  emigration  in  18(7.  lie  is  a 
member  of  Nortbuinlierland  Lodge,  ]•',  & 
.\.  M.,  in  which  be  h;is  tilled  all  the  chairs; 
of  Mount  Lebanon  Chai)ter,  \o.  101  ;  and  the 
I'".ncampment  of  Knights  Templar  at  St.  John. 
1  le  also  belongs  to  the  Indciiendent  Order  of 
I'oresters,  in  the  oriicia!  business  of  which  he 
has  taken  a  prominent  part:  and  to  the 
.\ncient  Order  of  United  Workmen. 

lie  was  married  November  25,  1880,  to 
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lish  army  officer.  Hy  this  union  there  are  two 
chililrcn  —  Mary  I'.dith  and  Iliram  Kerton. 
I'olitically,  Major  Maltby  is  a  Conservative. 
A  member  of  tiie  Ciiiirch  of  l",nL;lan(l,  he  is  a 
warden  of  St.  Andrew's  Cluncli  and  a  delegate 
to  tlie  .Synod. 


i.i:XANi)i:R  DrXHAK.  senior  mem- 
l)er  iif  tlie  eiiteiprisin;;'  firm  of  Alex- 
aniler  Dunbar  &  .Sons  at  Wood- 
stock, X.H.,  is  a  man  of  in\entive  genius  and 
of  excellent  l)usiness  ability.  lie  was  born 
April  4,  1S39,  ill  .Aberdeen,  .Scdtland,  a  scm 
of  James  Dunbar.  II  is  grandfather,  (ieoij;e 
Dunbar,  a  miller  by  occupation,  was  a  iifelonj; 
resident  of  Kincardineshire,  Scotland. 

James  Dunbar  was  born  in  Kincardineshire, 
and  theix'  served  an  apprenticesiii])  as  a  black- 
smith. Ai  the  aj;e  of  twenty-tive  years  he 
opened  a  shop  in  .Aberdeen,  but  in  i8,i5  re- 
turned to  his  birthplace  and  established  him- 
self in  business  tlieie.  lie  subse(|uentlv  was 
for  many  years  a  blacksmith  at  the  Red 
.Smithy,  I'artbetben,  where  he  spent  the  chis- 
ing  days  of  bis  life.  1  le  was  an  Odd  l'"ellow' 
and  a  member  nf  the  I'rcsbvteriau  church.  He 
married  Helen,  daii;;htei-  of  .\ndrew  Davidson, 
a  faruK'r  of  Hnurtreelinsh,  in  Kinc.udineshire, 
anil  the)'  had  seven  children:  .Alexandj-r ; 
James;  .\ndrew;  William,  who  is  now  liviiif; 
in  .South  .Africa,  and  who  planned  and  built 
the  water-works  at  Joiiannesburi;  and  vicinity; 
Robert;  Maiy,  widnw  (if  the  late  William 
Augues;  and  Agues. 

Alexander    Dunbar    received    his    education 


and  learned  the  machinist's  trade  in  .Scotland. 
I'"or  eight  )  cars  he  was  in  business  for  him- 
self as  a  millwright  anu  engineer.  Afterward 
he  became  superintendent  fur  the  .Scotch 
.'-^team  Cidtivation  Com|)an\-.  In  \S/2  he  re- 
signed that  position  to  come  to  America.  lie 
located  at  once  in  Woodstock,  N.  H.  ;  and  the 
ensuing  ten  years  be  was  foreman  for  II.  A. 
("oniiell.  Resigning  then  in  fa\iir  of  bis  son, 
Mr.  Dunbar  was  engaged  by  the  town  of 
Woodstock  to  suiierintend  the  construction  of 
the  water-works;  ami  after  they  were  roni- 
pletecl  he  acted  as  engineer  for  a  time.  lie 
also  suiierintendcd  the  putting  in  of  the  elec- 
tric light  plant,  which  he  subse(|uently  oper- 
ated until  1 891.  In  that  year,  in  connection 
with  the  late  James  Ilayden,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Hayden  &  Dunbar,  he  established  his 
liresent  foundry  and  iiKU'hine  shop.  In  1S94 
he,  with  his  sons,  .\lexa)*'icr,  Jr.,  /\ndrew, 
and  William,  purchased  Mr.  Ilasden's  inter- 
est in  the  i)lant,  and  formed  the  present  firm 
of  Mexandei  Dunbar  &  .Smis.  This  firm  car- 
ries on  a  huge  geneial  mat  hinist  and  foundiy 
business,  manufacturing  the  celebrated  new 
improveil  clapboarl  uKuhine,  iJunbar's  cla[)- 
board  ])laner,  shiiig'e  machine-.,  rotars'  saw- 
mills, ste.im-cufjines,  gang  edgeis,  brass  .nul 
ir^iu  casting  of  iaitv  di'scription,  and  general 
sawmill  machinery.  They  employ  froni  eight 
to  twelve  men,  ;md  have  built  up  a  tiade  that 
extends  into  I'veiy  |iart  of  the  Dominion. 

Mr.  Dunbar  mairii'd  .Matilda,  daughtei-  of 
John  .Mc.Xdam.  of  ,\lHrdeen,  .Scotl.and,  and 
they  have  eleven  children,  namely:  bllleii, 
wife  of  Richard  Mur|)hy;  .Alexander,  Jr.  ;  .An- 


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iliLW;  Matildii;  \\'illi;mi;  .\,i;ncs ;  Ilciliv; 
John;  (icorgc;  Kathleen;  ami  Rnbcrl.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Dinihar  arc  nicmbLMs  of  the  Presby- 
terian cluireb. 


(^.\Mi:S  WAI.KKR,  M.  11,  :i  retired  pby- 
sieiai),  now  one  of  tjie  most  substantial 
and  well-to-iio  citizens  of  St.  John,  was 
born  in  tiiat  city,  I'ecenibcr  2  1,  iSjij,  bcinj; 
the  voungesl  son  of  Thonias  and  Jean  (Ma- 
cara)  Walker.  His  birthi)lace  was  a  house  that 
stood  on  the  site  of  the  t'anadi.m  druj;  store. 

Thomas  Walker,  his  fathci'  who  was  lorn  in 
Perth,  .Scotland,  was  a  suri;eon  in  ihe  British 
arnu',  serving;-  in  l'".n.i;laiul  and  in  the  West 
Indies.  While  on  the  latter  station  he  was 
present  at  the  taking  of  Martinii|ue  (luade- 
loupe  from  the  l''rench.  After  the  war  with 
!•" ranee  was  over,  the  rc};imeiU  to  which  he  was 
attached  was  en;;ai;cd  in  helping;  to  put  down 
the  riots  in  I'".nj;land  causetl  by  the  intro- 
duction iif  farm  and  all  other  kinds  of 
machinery  Subsequently,  on  the  regiment 
beiny;  disb.mded,  Thomas  WV.lker  came  to 
Halifax,  and  about  the  \ear  iSjo  to  St.  John, 
wheie  be  i  .ictised  bis  profession  for  many 
years,  dvini;-  in  1S5J  at  the  aj;e  of  si.\t_\-- 
nine.  11  is  wife,  Jean,  to  whom  he  was  mai- 
rie  1  in  the  West  Indies,  was  a  native  of  I.arj^s, 
Scotland.  They  were  the  parents  of  four  chil- 
dren, three  sons  and  one  dau,:;hter,  of  whom  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  onl\'  survi\iu-. 
Dr.  Thomas  Walker  w.is  a  member  of  the  local 
nieilie.d  society.  His  wife  sur\i\ed  him  about 
ten  years. 


James  Walker  was  educated  in  the  ;;rammar 
school  of  St.  John,  lie  studied  his  profession 
in  Ivlinburtjh,  Scotland,  graduating'  in  July, 
1854.  lie  then  spent  some  time  travelling  on 
the  continent  and  pursuing  adsanced  studies 
in  the  hospital  clinics  of  Paris,  licrlin,  and 
X'ienna.  Subsecpiently,  returning  to  St.  John, 
be  was  for  a  number  of  years  snccessfully  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  his  jirofession  in  that 
citv.  lie  is  now  retired,  and  occupies  himself 
mainl\'  in  looking  aftei'  bis  large  real  estate 
interests.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Natural 
Histor\'  .Socict)'  and  of  St.  Andrews  Society. 

Dr.  \\'alker  was  married  in  1SS2  to  Cather- 
ine .Amelia  Nice,  a  native  of  Carleton  and  a 
daughter  of  David  Xice,  of  Loyalist  descent. 
His  chiltlren  are:  John  D.,  of  .St.  John;  and 
(iladys,  who  resides  at  home. 


-RAMI'S    I'RI'DKRICK    ALLISON,* 

Postmaster  at  .Sackville,  Westmorland 
County,  N.  1!.,  was  born  in  that  town, 
( >ctober  2H,  1.S50,  a  son  of  the  late  Joseph  I-". 
.Allison.  He  conies  of  gooil  Irish  stock,  his 
paternal  grandfather,  James  Allison,  having 
been  born  and  brought  up  in  the  luiierald  Isle. 
Immigrating  when  a  young  man  to  Canada, 
James  AUismi  located  at  Ciornwallis,  \.  .S., 
where  he  subsecpiently  bought  land,  from 
which  he  iniproved  a  good  farm.  There  he 
spent  his  remaining  ilays,  profitably  eng.iged 
in  general  agricultural  pursuits,  but  making  a 
s[iecialty  of  fruit-raising.  He  took  .111  intelli- 
gent part  in  the  management  of  local  affairs, 
and   for  many  years  serveil   as  Justice  of   the 


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Peace.      He  was  prominent  not  only  in  politi- 
cal matters,  but  was  a  leadin},^  member  of  the 
Church    of    Iui>,'lan(l.      lie    married    Margaret 
ilutchinson,  who  i)(>re  him  seven  sons  and  one 
daujihter.     Of  these  children    Joseph    F.   and 
William,  the  fifth  and  sixth  sons,  were  twins. 
Another  son,  Charles  1'.  Allison,  who  died  in 
1858,    was    an    unusually    successful    business 
man    and    a    prominent   citizen   of    .Sackville. 
I'rom  the  larjj;e  property  which  he  accumulated 
he  founded  the  educational  institution  named, 
in  his  honor.  Mount  AULson    University,  and 
at  his  death  bequeathed  to   it  a   larj^e  amount 
of  money,      lie   married    Milcah   Trucman,  of 
I'ointe  du  Hute,  who  died  leaving  no  children. 
Joseph  F.  AUi.son  was  born   at   Cornwall  is, 
N..S.,  on  the  home  farm,  and   remained   there 
until  he  was  twelve  years  old.      Going  then  to 
.Sackville,  N.I!.,    he  entered   the   store  of   the 
lion.  William   Crane,   a   leading  merchant  of 
the  town,  with  whom   he   sul)sec|uently  formed 
a    partnership,    becoming    junior    member    of 
the   firm   of   Crane   &  Allison.     On  the  death 
of   .Mr.  Crane,  in  1S5;,,  the    junior  member  of 
the    firm,  with    his   brother,  Charles    F.    Alli- 
son,   who    at    one     time    had    been   a   partner 
in  the  concern,  were  made  coe.\ecutors  of  the 
Crane    estate.      Joseph    I'.    .Allison    purchased 
the  interest   o(   his   late   partner    in   the   busi- 
ness, and  from  that  time  until  his  own   death, 
in  i,sr)3,  when  but   fifty-six  years  okl,  carried 
on   a   very  extensive  and   satisfactory  trade   in 
general    merchandise.      He   was  a   most    loyal 
liti/.en,  active  in   town   affairs,  a  CJmservative 
i)i   his   political    views    and   a   member  of   the 
Church    of     ICngland.       He     married     Mary, 


daughter  of  Oliver  Cogswell,  of  Cornwallis, 
N.  .S.  .Seven  children  were  born  to  them,  and 
these  three  are  now  living:  Francis;  James 
Frederick;  and  Cassie,  wife  of  Alfred  T.  Par- 
sons, of  Brooklyn,  N.  V. 

James  I'rederick  Allison,  after  taking  a 
course  of  study  at  the  Mount  Allison  Acad- 
emy, completed  his  education  at  Ilorton,  N.  .S. 
At  the  age  of  sixteen  years  he  entered  the 
grocery  store  of  ".iarriner  A.  Wood  as  a  clerk, 
a  position  which  he  filled  six  years,  [n  1.S72 
he  embarked  in  business  on  his  own  account 
in  .Sackville  by  opening  a  store  cf  general 
merchandise,  which  he  conducted  several 
years.  In  18S5  be  became  accountant  for  the 
New  Hrunwick  and  Prince  Fdward  Island 
Railway  Company,  with  which  he  was  con- 
nected in  that  capacity  until  appointed,  in 
1893,  Postmaster  of  .Sackville,  an  office  which 
he  is  filling  most  creditably  and  satisfactorily. 

Mr.  .Allison  was  married  September  8, 
18S1,  to  Louise  M.,  daughter  of  the  late 
Major  W.  Peverley  Robinson,  of  St.  |ohn, 
.\.H.  Their  union  has  !;een  blessed  bv  the 
birth  of  three  chiklren,  two  of  whom  are  liv- 
ing, nanuly:  William  Heverley,  born  June  22, 
1884;  and  Mary  Gretchen,  born  January  to, 
1889.  I!.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Allison  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Cliurch  of  luit'land. 


.AMi:S  SMITH  .\TKIXSON,*  a  promi- 
nent citizen  of  Albert,  .Albert  Comity, 
X.H.,  has  been  very  active  in  promot- 
ing the  various  enterprises  inaugurated  to  ad- 
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cantile, political,  fraternal,  and  religious 
circles.  lie  was  born  October  2\,  1849,  at 
Ha\'  \'erte,  Westmoreland  County,  N.H.,  a  son 
of  Thomas  Atkinson.  t)f  his  paternal  j^raiid- 
father,  Christopher  Atkinson,  very  little  is 
known,  except inj,^  that  he  was  for  years  a  very 
influential  citizen  of  .Saikville,  X.l?. ,  wiiose 
l.irye  farm  includi'd  tJie  present  site  of  the 
Mount  Allison  Institution.  C!l)risto|)her  was 
twice  married,  and  liad  children  by  each  wife; 
but  wli()m  he  married  is  unrecorded. 

Ills  son,  Tbonias  Atkinson,  was  born  at 
Sackville,  X.H.,  wliere  lie  lived  until  cominy 
of  aj;e.  Then  removing;  to  the  town  of  Albert, 
he  there  established  a  j;eneral  store,  which  he 
manajjed  alone  until  I1S70,  when  he  took  into 
ec[ual  partnership  Jiis  youngest  son,  James 
Smitli,  tiie  lirni  name  from  tiiat  time  until  his 
ileatii  beiny  'I'liomas  .Atkinson  &  Son.  He 
was  a  Liiieral  in  politics,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  clunch  and  of  its  official  board. 
lie  married  Mar\-,  daughter  of  William 
Oulton,  of  15ay\'erte;  and  of  their  five  chil- 
dren three  are  livinj;-  —  Richard  H.,  I'iuebe 
A.,  and  James  Smith.  Richard  11.  mairied 
.Ada,  dau-hter  nf  Dr.  W.  Hardy,  of  lioston, 
Mass.,  and  has  two  thilchen,  namel)-;  William 
II.,  who  mairied  .Mice  ,M.,  dauj;hter  of  Thad- 
deus  ]•;.  l'"rien(l,  of  Jirookline,  Mass.  ;  and 
Caroline  R.,  wife  of  diaries  Wadsworth  Lowe. 
l'ho;he  A.  is  tiie  wife  of  Donald  M..Sta\',  of 
St.  -Andrews,  X.  H.,  and  has  three  cbildien, 
namely:  William  1'.,  who  mairied  Lillian 
Trites,  of  Momton,  ami  has  two  children; 
Alberta,    wife   of   .A.    W.    Scott,    of    Moncton, 


who  has  three  children  William,  Victor, 
and  Charles,  and  Aliie,  wife  of  Lilward  Ld- 
wards,  of  Moncton,  who  has  three  ihildren  — 
X'ictor,  Nora,  and  Hathaway. 

James  Smith  Atkinson  attended  the  Char- 
lotte County  Grammar  Sciiool  several  terms, 
after  which  he  completed  his  education  at 
Laton's  ComnuTcial  C(illc,i;e  at  St.  John,  N.Ii. 
<)n  le.iviiiL;'  school  he  bej^an  iiis  mercantile 
career  as  a  clerk  in  a  dry-j;oiids  house  at  .St. 
Joiin,  where  he  continued  live  years.  Return- 
ing; in  1S70  to  Albert,  he  became  associated 
in  business  w'lh  his  father  as  junior  member 
of  the  linn  nf  'riiomas  .Atkinson  &  .Sdii,  and 
after  the  death  of  the  senior  member  of  the 
linn  conducted  the  business  alone  until  the  f;dl 
of  iScjf),  when  he  sold  out,  and  is  now  attend- 
in;;' to  his  oilier  interests.  He  is  a  Conser\a- 
tive  in  poliiits.  l-'or  a  numl)er  of  terms  he 
has  ser\ed  as  .Selioo'  Trustee  and  as  secretary 
of  the  .ScliiMil  I'oard,  and  has  also  been  Juslici,' 
of  the  IV'ace.  IK'  is  also  president  of  the 
Hopewell  Cemetery  .Association,  of  which  he 
w;is  line  <if  the  projectors.  .Mr.  .\tkinson  is 
a  Mason  and  I'ast  .Master  of  the  lo(l,i;e  to 
which  he  belongs;  is  jiresident  of  the  CaiKulian 
Home  C'ircle,  of  .\jbert;  and  for  many  \ears 
was  Chief  Teinplar  of  Hopewell  l.od.ne,  1.  < ). 
(i.  T.,  of  '.vliich  he  is  one  of  the  furt'iiiost 
memliers.  He  is  likewise  ;i  trustee  and  one 
of  the  Mana<;in,LC  Committee  of  Oulton  Hall, 
of  Albert.  A  Methodist  in  iiis  lelij^ioiis  be- 
lief, he  is  an  energetic  woiker  in  tliat  denomi- 
nation; and,  besides  belli;;  line  of  the  trustees 
of  the  Church  Hoard  and  the  parsonage,  he  is 
a  member  of  the  Ouarterly  Official  Hoanl. 


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On  ]Jcceml)cr  30,  1873,  Mr.  Atkinson  mar- 
ried Sarali  Ali)crta,  y(iun;;c'sl  (iaii^iitur  ol  Caj)- 
taiii  David  StiK's,  nl  lldiK-wcll,  X.  li.  Ifc  lias 
tlirce  children  living--  Marion  Kutli,  I.ncy  I,., 
and  /\da  J. 

(^AMI'lS  KlClli'-.V,  formerly  a  well-known 
citizen  ol  St.  John,  N.li.,  was  horn  in 
County  ])nne.L;al,  Ireland,  in  iSiT),  son 
ol  kohert  and  Anna  (Keid)  Kichey.  His 
KiMndlathcr,  James  Rieliey,  a  carpenter  by  oe- 
ciipalion,  married  a  Mi.ss  Stevenson.  'I'liey 
came  to  Now  Urunswick  somewhat  late  in  life, 
and  Ihcy  both  dieil  in  St.  John.  '1 'heii-  chil- 
dren were:  Robert,  above  named,  who  was  the 
eldest;  Matthew,  who  was  a  clerj^yman  of  the 
Methodi.st  chnrch;  John,  a  carpenter;  Samuel, 
a  watchmaker;  William  and  Andrew,  who 
were  carpenters;  and   Mary. 

Robert  Richey  was  en^a^od  in  the  bakery 
business  in  Ireland,  and  followed  that  jnusuit 
uiion  comin<;-  to  America.  He  crossed  the  At- 
lantic in  uSjf)  with  his  wife  and  live  children, 
and  settled  in  St.  John,  where  he  at  once 
opened  business.  He  died  in  1.S71,  and  his 
wife  died  in  1841.  They  had  si.\  children, 
namely:  James;  Robert;  Mary;  John;  Jane 
-Aim,  who  married  James  C'leeland  ;  and  Mar- 
tha, the  wife  of  Alexander  Rankine,  of  St. 
John. 

James  Richey  served  an  ajiprenticeship  at 
the  jiainter'.s  trade,  and  subse(|nently  went  to 
I''iedericton,  where  he  carried  on  business  for 
about  three  years.  Returninj,'  then  to  St. 
John,  he  engaj;ed  in  business  heie  for  a  time, 
but    later    went    to    Ucjston,    Mass.,    where    he- 


spent  the  tollowin-  si.\  years.  At  the  enil  of 
that  period  he  aj;ain  returned  to  St.  John, 
where  he  remained  during' the  rest  of  his  \\i^•, 
earryin--  on  a  successful  business. 

Ml'.  Riihey  was  married  in  iS^S  to  I,ouis;i 
.M.  Mitchell,  a  dauj^hter  of  William  .Mitchell. 
Cf  this  union  i'ij;ht  children  wi'ie  born, 
namely:  .Martha;  .Marina,  who  was  the  wife  of 
the  late  Dr.  Robert  Ocheltrce,  of  New  ^'ork  ; 
Robert  W. ,  who  died  at  the  a};e  of  ei;;hti-en 
months;  James  Reed,  Robert,  William  W. , 
and  I.oren/o  T. ,  who  reside  in  lioston,  .M;iss.  ; 
and  .Samuel  }.,  who  lives  in  St.  John. 

Mr.  Richey  died  on  March  9,  iHijS,  closinj;- 
a  useful  and  honored  c;ireer.  He  held  the  re- 
spect ;md  contidence  of  all  his  business  asso- 
ciates and  the  sincere  regard  and  admir:iti(jn 
of  his  more  intimate  friends  and  accniaintances, 
only  those  who  knew  him  in  his  home  life 
appreciating  to  the  full  his  many  virtues  and 
his  warm  and  kindly  heart,  'i'he  tollowing 
pen  sketch  from  the  St.  John  d'nui/c  of  March 
I-',  189S,  shows  him  as  ho  appeared  in  every- 
d:iy  life  :  — • 

"'i"n-d:iy  a  num  of  nuniy  years,  a  lamili:n- 
figure  on  the  .streets  of  the  citv,  a  reader  of 
books,  a  lover  of  pictures,  a  man  of  domestic 
habits  and  unobtrusive  manners,  who  sjioke  no 
evil  of  his  neighbor,  for  he  realized  that  his 
own  imiierfections,  like  those  of  others,  could 
not  be  wholly  concealed,  even  if  he  elected  to 
masquerade  in  the  garb  of  a  hypocrite,  'is 
away,'  as  they  .say  in  the  Highlands,  and  this 
is  his  first  Saturday  night  with  'the  princes 
ami  patriarchs  of  the  infant  world.'  It  would 
be  as   ea.sy   a    task    to    reanimate   the   ashes  of 


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Ranifscs  as  to  kindli-  the  tiamc  nf  life  in  his. 
W't  only  live  nr  si\  days  a;{()  tlu'  liiildrcn 
smiled  at  iiiiii  as  h"  passi'd  thcni  on  the  stroi-t, 
liii  lie  always  {^ict'lrd  ijicni  witii  a  |di'asanl 
wiiid,  and  tiioM'  who  kiivw  liini  iicsl  littK' 
tiiouj;ht  as  tlu'y  shimk  his  han;l  t(ir  the  last  t  iint' 
that  so  soon  he  would  hi'  away.  lie  was  imt 
knmvn  in  |)olitiis,  in  scclarian  rontidveisy,  nor 
in  the  seiarnhle  Inr  ol'fin'.  lie  ne\t'r  hi-^^ed 
tor  introdiK  lions  to  'distin^ui>iied  visitors,' 
and  his  name  seldom  ajipeaied  in  the  news- 
paiiers;  hnt,  sonieiuiw,  without  seeking'  |)o|)n- 
lariU.  lie  was  populai'  with  tiie  )(nin^'  and  thi' 
old,  heiause  of  his  unol)trusiveness  and  Ids 
tendi'f  eonsideiatiiiii  lor  the  leidin;;>  ot  those 
with  whom  he  lanie  in  mntait.  Tiie  j;ravcs 
of  such  men  are  not  often  marked  hy  fjreat 
moinnnents,  \et  it  eannot  he  douhted  that  they 
'sleej)  well,'  nor  lan  it  he  douhted  that  llu' 
world  is  a  little  hetter  and  n)nsi'(|Uently  a 
little  happier  heiause  they   ha\e   lived." 


Olil.R  r    |.\Mi;S    l!()\l)  was  for  nianv 


vears  a  prominent  eiti/.en  and  one  ol 
the  most  enterprisinj;'  and  prosper- 
ous husiness  men  of  I'ennfield,  Charlotte 
('(iuntv,  N.  H.  A  man  of  sterling'  inte;;rity, 
honest  and  upii,i;hl  in  all  of  his  dealini;s,  he 
had  the  esteem  and  conlidenee  of  his  fellow- 
men;  and  his  ileath,  which  oeenrred  June  |S, 
I  S<^7,  left  a  v.u  alley  in  the  eommunity  tliat 
I'.innol  well  he  tilled.  lie  was  horn  in  the 
palish  of  IV-nntield,  (  haihitle  Count)',  in  I.S4(), 
heini;  one  of  the  t  wn  i  hildreii  of  William  and 
Margaret    Hoyd.      His    father,    who    was    horn 


and  reared  in  County  Antrim,  Ireland,  emi- 
grated to  New  Ihimswiek  when  a  young  man, 
and  loialed  in  I'liinlield,  where  he  resided 
until  liis  deeease,  at  the  a.i;i'  of  lilty-live  years, 

.\Ir.  l!o\d  ohlained  a  piaetieal  eommnn- 
school  edueation  in  I'ennlleld,  and  at  the  early 
age  of  eighteen  years  went  into  the  lumheiing 
business  on  his  own  aeioiml.  lie  sueeeeded 
e\en  heycjiid  his  expei  lal  ions,  and  sodii  en 
larged  his  nper.itions  hy  opeiiiii;;  a  elolhing 
house  and  a  store  ol  geneial  merchandise.  I  o 
the  stock  which  he  tirsl  put  into  his  estahlish- 
ineiit  he  suhse(|Uc'ntl)'  added  a  eoiniilete  line  of 
farming  iinplemeiits ;  ami  he  took  the  ageiie)' 
for  the  s. lie  of  wagons  for  .Miiiehie  &  Co.  and 
for  li.  K.  DeW'olfe,  and  fur  selling  farmers' 
tocds  for  M'Xiitt,  the  general  agent  in  St. 
John.  1  le  also  eanied  on  general  fanning  to 
a  eonsiderahle  e.\tent,  making  a  spec  iail)'  ol 
stoek  raising  and  dealing.  In  all  of  his  oper- 
ations he  prospered,  ;nid  it  is  needless  to  .say 
was  always  kept  hus)-.  In  politics  he  was  a 
strong  suppoitei'  ol  the  Conservat i\ c  paity; 
and  he  look  a  deep  inteiest  in  the  nianageiiient 
of  public-  alfaiis,  although  he  jiersistenlly  de 
elined  olFue.  lie  was  an  active  member  o| 
St.  (ieorge  Lodge,  V.  ^  .\.  ,M.,  No.  I  _',  and 
did  uracil  to  iiromntc  the  welfare  nf  that  order. 
lie  was  a  ineinher  oi  the  Chun  h  of  l'',ngland. 

.Mr.  liojcl  married  (ieoigiana,  daughter  of 
David  and  Maiy  Jane  Mil'arland,  their  iiiiinii 
being  s(deinni/ed  Xo\emher  22,  \^f)l.  'I'heir 
oilh'  child,  .Maggie  Isabel,  is  now  the  wife  of 
W.  II.  .\kerly,  a  son  of  I'enjamin  .\keil\, 
who  was  born  in  Cornwell,  N..S.  Mr.  and 
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Robert    Lester,    Orlo    Ro)-,    Aubrey    Tnylor, 
Helena  Fay,  and  ElUlon  James. 


^JON.  JOHN  BLACK,*  barristerat-law 
and  a  jirominent  jioliticinn  of  l-'reder- 
icton,  was  lioni  in  Kin^selear, 
York  C'mmty,  N.li.,  Noxembcr  23,  1853.  lie 
is  a  son  of  tbe  Rev.  John  IMack ;  and  his 
grandfather,  William  lihuk,  was  for  a  ninnber 
of  years  identified  with  the  lumber  business  in 
.St.  J(jhn.  William  JSlack  was  one  of  the  able 
public  men  of  his  da)-,  administerinj,'  the  ^'ro- 
vincial  government  for  tbe  years  1831  and 
1833;  and  his  political  services  extended  over 
a  Ion;;  period.  In  extreme  old  ai;e  he  retained 
remarkai)le  control  of  his  mental  and  jiby-  '  ,i] 
powers;  anil  at  the  time  of  liis  death,  which 
occurred  al  tiie  advanced  aj^e  of  ninety-six 
years,  he  was  serving- as  president  of  the  Lcl; 
lative  Count  il. 

Ihe  Rev.  John  lilack,  tlic  lion.  Joim  Ulack's 
latlier,  was  educated  at  Kin';'s  Ccdle.;;-!',  Wind- 
sor. Taking  holy  orders,  he  became  lector  of 
the  Anglican  church  at  Kingsclear,  which  he 
served  for  twenty-five  years.  lie  died  at  the 
age  of  sixty-ii\e.  lie  mair'ed  a  daugjiter  of 
(i.  I..  Welmoie,  a  baiiister;  and  thev  iiad  .1 
lamiiy  of  eigiit  children,  all  of  wlmm  aiv  now 
living,  John  being  the  )(iungesl. 

Jnhn  lihuk  iibtained  his  general  education 
in  the  I'"redeiicton  Collegiate  .Schoid  ;  and, 
upiin  the  completion  nf  his  studies  theie,  began 
tci  read  law  in  liie  office  of  Mr.  Henry  H. 
R;i'  '.sford,  of  I''redericton,  with  ■.\i)iim  iie  w- 
m, lined  as  a  student  for  four  years.      .\fter  his 


admission  to  the  New  Brunswick  bar  in  1875 
he  was  associated  for  six  years  with  his  pre- 
cejitor,  subsetpiently  practised  alone  for  three 
years,  was  then  in  partncrshii)  witli  J.  Douglas 
Hazen  for  the  same  length  of  time,  and  is  now 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  IMack,  Bliss  &  Xealis. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Conservative.  He  has  been 
.Secretary,  Treasurer,  and  .Solicitor  of  the 
•unity  since  1891,  and  in  I^''j5  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  l'ro\incial  rarliament  from 
^'ork. 

In  1880  Mr.  ]5lack  married  a  daugiiter  of  the 
late  Dr.  Robb,  a  iirofessor  al  the  I'ni'.ersity  of 
Xew  lirunswie'-.  He  and  his  wife  have  had 
two  children,  one  of  whom  is  living.  Mr.  Black 
is  a  Pa.st  Master  of  Hiram  Lodge,  No.  6,  ]•". 
&  A.  M.  ;  belongs  also  to  the  chapter;  and 
is  a  Past  Grand  of  the  local  lodge  of  Oiid  P'el- 
lows.  His  religious  affiliations  are  with  the 
.(\nulican  chureh. 


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OXALD  I'RASIlk,*  of  Fredericton, 
(^  m  is  a  prosperous  lumber  manufaetur'a- 
and  dealer  and  a  wide-awake,  pro- 
gressive business  mall.  lie  was  born  in  Ab'r- 
ileenshire,  Scotland,  in  184J,  a  son  of  i\rcl:i- 
bald  I'raser,  being  the  fourtii  child  in  a  family 
of  five  sons  and  one  daugiUer.  His  jiatenial 
grandfather,  also  iiametl  Donald  P'raser,  spent 
iiis  seventy-seven  years  of  life  in  Abt'deen, 
.Scotland,  where  he  was  engaged  in  tt,e  timber 
business. 

Archiiiald  P'raser  succeeded  to  tiie  occupa- 
tion of  his  father,  and  like  him  spent  his  entire 
life  in  yVberdeenshire.      He  died  at   the  aue  of 


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of  tlie  l"'rec  ^  lesbyterian  chiinh,  in  wliitli  he 
w.is  a  Deaciin.  He  married  a  daii^liter  uf 
I.awsiiii  l'lHlli|)s,  and  tlu'V  ii'ared  six  ciiildren. 
Donald  l'"raser  comiileled  his  studies  at  Me- 
eiianies'  Institute  in  /Xherdeen,  and  tiien  en- 
tered into  business  witli  iiis  tathei'.  0\\  the 
death  of  the  latter,  Donald  and  one  of  his 
hrotheis,  nndi'r  the  lirni  name  of  A.  iS;  I). 
l'"raser,  eontinued  their  father's  business  for 
five  years.  The  partnership  then  beinj;-  dis- 
solved, Mr.  I-'raser  took  -ui  enj^agement  to  j^o 
to  Sweden  in  the  inti.'iest  of  a  hnnher  tirni; 
but  the  eontraet  fell  thidui;h.  In  1N75,  join- 
ing' the  Kincardine  Comiiany,  or  C'dony,  he 
came  with  them  to  New  Ihunswic!;  11, d  si^ttled 
in  New  Kineaidine,  X'ictoria  I'ounly,  'vjierc 
he  t<iok  up  farming;  land.  He  sul)si,'i|uently 
gave  up  farmin:;',  however,  and  entered  the 
euiplov  of  !•'.  H,  Hale,  a  luml-erman,  with 
whom  he  remained  two  yeais.  i'hen,  in  1S77, 
lenxiving  to  I,ilieil\'  Chute,  a  small  jilace 
ai)out  seventN'  miles  from  T'ledericton,  on  the 
.St.  John  River,  he  I'mliaiked  in  tlie  hindier 
business  on  his  own  account.  He  be.nan  in 
a  -mall  way,  and  succeeded  so  well  that  in 
I  SSo  he  was  enabled  to  enlarge  his  oper.itions 
b\-  bluing  a  mill  in  company  with  .\lexandcr 
I'atter.son,  aiul  thus  i)ecame  head  (jI  the  tirm  of 
b'raser  &  I'atterson.  On  the  deati)  of  the 
jiinioi-  i>artner  lie  became  bv  purchase  the  s(dc 
ownei'  f  the  business.  .Soon  afterward  lie 
icconsti  acted  the  saw-mill,  and  built  a  mill 
for  the  manufacture  of  oatmeal,  but  in  1S89 
sold  out  the  entire  plant.  In  i<S'94  IVIr.  l'"raser 
came  to  l'"rodericlon,  and  with  his  sons,  Donalii 


I'rascr,  Jr.,  and  Archibald,  built  their  present 
saw-mill,  and  established  the  firm  of  Donakl 
I''raser  &  .Sons.  The)-  ha\'e  a  tlnel)'  e(iuip|n'd 
mill,  supplied  witli  electric  lights  from  its 
own  dynanio,  and  emplo\  in  its  night  and  day 
gangs  from  one  hundred  a. id  twent\-riv"  to  one 
hundreil  and  thirtv  men,  who  durini;  tlie  year 
maiuifactuie  about  tiftetai  million  feel  of  lum- 
ber into  <k'als,  cl,i|iboards,  shingles,  laths, 
etc.,  which  are  sold  in  New  Mngland,  or 
shipped  to  other  lorcign  countries. 

^Ir.  b'raser  is  a  member  of  the  I'resln  terian 
churi'h  of  Liberty  (  liute.  In  his  jioliticd 
convictions  he  has  always  been  a  Liberal.  lie 
is  a  b'ree  Mason,  and  has  advanced  as  far  as 
the  chapter.  While  living  in  Aberdeenshire 
Mr.  L'raNcr  married  .\nn,  daughter  of  John 
Keiths.  Mrs.  I'vasvy  died  at  the  age  of  fifty 
years. 

RI'IDKRIC  A.  JONh'.S,  furniture 
19  dealer  of  iT)  1  ,S  King  .Street,  .St. 
John,  was  born  in  that  city,  in  a  licnise  at  the 
corner  of  King  and  Carmarthen  Streets.  He 
is  a  son  of  the  Hon.  Thomas  R.  Jones,  a  sepa- 
rate sketch  of  whom  appears  on  another  i)age 
of  tliis  volume. 

He  was  educated  in  the  grammar  school. 
Leaving  school  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  he 
w.is  eni[)loyed  at  the  time  of  the  gre.it  lire,  in 
1877,  in  the  hardware  store  of  Lewin  tv  Al- 
lingham.  He  tlien  spent  ,1  year  in  New  Xdrk 
City,  after  which,  returning  to  .St,  John,  he 
became  associated  with  his  father  in  the  mer- 
cantile business.  Sid)sequently  he  became 
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Marvey,  York  County,  N.  H.,  which  position 
ho  held  for  three  years.  He  then  returned  to 
St.  John  anil  estal)lisheil  his  present  furniture 
and  house  furnishing,'  liusiness,  in  whieh  he 
has  heen  very  successful.  He  is  also  heavily 
interested  in  ^'old  mines  in  Colorado. 

Mr.  Jones  married  Miss  Charlotte  Maria 
Aniidd  iMiwler,  a  native  of  Sussex,  N.H. 
Mrs.  J(uies  was  hrouj^ht  up  by  her  grandpar- 
ents, Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cicor^'c  Samuel  Arnold,  the 
former  of  whom  was  a  descendant  of  the  Rev. 
Oliver  Arnold,  the  first  rector  <if  Sussex, 
N.».  Mr.  Jones  is  a  member  of  the  Hibernia 
l,odt;e,  A.  V.  &  A.  M.  ;  also  the  Union  De 
Molay  I'receptory  of  .St.  John,  the  Indepen- 
dent Order  of  Foresters,  and  the  Knights  of 
i'ythias. 


/^Tyi'TIIJ-.K  CORliKTT  MURRAY, 
^TN  M.  1).,'-  a  prominent  and  popular  phy- 
.^"*v^  sician  of  the  inirish  <if  Albert,  Albert 
County,  \.  li. ,  was  born  Noveiuber  1,  1S45,  in 
Colchester  Ctiuuty,  Nova  Scotia,  a  son  of  the 
late  Gc(n-ge  A.  Murray.  On  the  paternal  side 
he  is  of  pure  Scotch  ancestry,  his  -randfatber, 
Gcnrge  Murray,  bavinj;-  been  born  a-ul  bred  in 
Mdrayshire,  Scotland,  where  be  lived  until 
after  his  marriage.  I'lmi^rating  then  to  Amer- 
ica with  his  young  wife,  Ceorge  IMurray  settled 
in  Colchester  County,  No»'a  Scotia,  where  he 
was  ijrofitably  engaged  as  a  general  farmer 
nulil  bis  demise,  at  tlic  age  of  fourscore  years. 
His  wife,  who  died  when  forty  years  old,  bore 
him  ciglit  children,  of  .vluim  but  one  survives  — 
namely,  ICIizabeth,  now  ninety-three  years  old 


and   the   widow  of   William    Murray,  a   distant 
relative,  who  resides  in  Nova  Scolia. 

Cieorge  A.  Murray,  who  was  the  ymngest 
child  (if  his  parents,  was  born  January  i,  1816, 
(in  the  (lid  home  farm  in  Colchester  County, 
Nova  Scotia.  F(dlowing  the  occupation  to 
which  he  was  early  trained,  he  became  one  of 
the  lUdst  thriving  agiicidturists  of  bis  nati\e 
county,  in  which  he  spent  his  eighty-one  years 
of  earthly  life.  He  was  a  Liberal  in  pcditics, 
and  for  many  years  was  an  blldcr  in  the  I'res- 
bylerian  church,  with  which  \\c  and  his  wite 
united  when  young.  His  fust  wife  was  Jane 
Hill,  a  daughter  of  Samuel  Hill,  who  was  born 
in  Londonderry,  Ireland.  She  died  at  the  age 
of  f(irly-nine  years,  having  burne  him  eight 
children,  of  whom  six  are  UdW  living-  -  Samuel 
11.,  Ceorge,  David,  Suther  C. ,  Charles  H., 
and  Lli/abeth. 

Suther  Corbett  Murray  had  exceptionally 
giKid  educational  advaiUages,  attending  in  his 
youthful  days  the  schdols  of  his  native  tdwii 
ainl  df  Jidston,  Mass.,  and  suhse(|uently  the 
grammar  schdol  at  'I'rurn,  X.S.,  and  Dalhdusie 
Cdllege,  Halifax,  N.  S.  Having  a  naltiral 
taste  for  the  study  of  meilitine,  he  then  entered 
the  Harvard  Medical  College,  a  department  of 
the  famed  imivcrsity  of  Cambridge,  Mass., 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1S71,  with  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  immediately 
locating  in  Ldiidonderry,  N.S.,  Dr.  Miuiay 
remained  there  twd  years,  when  in  1S7;,  he 
removed  to  Albert,  where  he  has  since  been 
pre-eminently  successful  in  the  |)ractice  of  his 
chosen  ]irofession.  He  takes  an  active  interest 
in  Idcal  affairs,  and  enjd)s   the   cdiilick  nee  and 


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ostccni  of  liis  patients  and  neighbors.  A  I.ib- 
eial  Conscrvatixf  in  his  convictions,  he  is 
iiinv  |ircsi(Ieiit  i>\  the  society  orj;nnize(l  !))'  that 
piiliiii'al  party.  l'"raternall\',  liie  Dmtur  is 
a  nieii)l)er  arui  I'ast  Master  of  the  All)ert  Ma- 
sonic Lodge;  a  mcinl)er  and  secretary  of  the 
Canadian  Home  C'ircle;  and  a  iiieinl)er  and 
treasurer  of  .Sju'imdy  Court,  A.  ().  !■". ,  of  Al- 
liert.      lie  is  also  a  CniMitv  Coroner. 

On  April  11,  1S71,  1  )i'.  Murray  married 
Hariiet  M.,  daughter  of  \V.  V..  McKoheit, 
Al.l). ,  ot  Colchester,  N.  .S. ,  and  tiiey  iiave  two 
ciiildren-  Wilfred  I'itt  and  .Alder  Cordon. 
The  Doctor  and  Mrs.  Murray  are  active  mem- 
bers of  the  rresbytcrian  Church  of  River- 
side, N.H. 


irs^rrCH  GALLAGUI':K,*  a  member  of 
tiic  firm  of  Cial higher  brothers  and 
also  (if  that  of  John  Callaghcr  & 
.Sons,  Wooilsloek,  .\.l!.,  was  horn  January  27, 
1S54,  at  retcisville,  (Jueens  Count\',  X.H. ,  a 
son  of  Joim  and  Ann  (Mc(iovern)  (iallagher. 
1  lis  iiaternal  grand|)arents,  Lawrence  and  Isa- 
bella (McCann)  (jallagiier,  were  born  and 
reared  in  Ireland,  tiie  former  in  County  b'er- 
inanagh  and  tiie  latter  in  County  Tyrone. 

John  (iallagher  was  jjorn  in  County  l'"er- 
managh,  Ireland,  in  .November,  1NJ5,  and  in 
1S29  came  with  bis  parents  to  New  lirunswick. 
They  settled  on  a  farm  in  .St.  John  County, 
and  he  there  g;ew  to  man's  estate.  On  leav- 
ing school,  lie  engaged  in  f.uining,  and  tiuis 
continued  until  iS.(7,  when  he  located  in 
Woodstock.      In    1^77   lie    engaged    in    monu- 


mental Work  on  his  own  account,  and  has  now 
the  largest  business  of  the  kind  within  a  radius 
of  twenty  miles.  His  wife,  Ann,  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Ilugli  Mctiovern,  of  (Jueens  Count)',  New 
Urunswick.  liiey  had  ten  children,  of  whom 
nine  grew  to  )ears  of  maturitv,  namely;  Isa- 
bella, now  <leceased,  who  was  the  wifenf  James 
McRac,  of  Woodstock;  Hugh;  Catiu'rine,  wife 
of  William  Uragen,  of  Itoslon,  Mass.  ;  Law - 
rente;  Joim;  Mary;  James;  h;ila;  and  Agnes. 
Hugh  (iallagher  was  educated  in  the  Wood- 
stoek  sciiools,  ;ind  afterward  under  his  father's 
iustiuction  IcariRii  the  stone-cutter's  trade. 
In  1S93  he  entered  into  partnersliip  with  bis 
father,  and  is  .still  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
John  Callagher  &  .Sons,  wiiich  is  carrying  on 
a  successful  business  under  the  skilful  manage- 
ment of  its  senior  member.  Mr.  (iallagher  is 
also  engaged  in  the  li\ery  business,  and,  in 
comp.iny  with  liis  brotlier,  James  W.  Gallagher, 
has  the  leading  livery  and  sale  stable  in  Wood- 
stock. The)'  keep  fourteen  Imises  the  greater 
pai't  of  tlielinu',  and  have  a  l.uge  assoitnu'Ut 
of  carriages  and  other  vehicles  for  general  use. 
In  p(ditics  Mr.  (iallagher  is  a  Liberal,  and  he 
takes  an  acti\e  part  in  local  affairs.  b'or  four 
)'ears  be  was  Town  Councillni-,  ami  in  1 S97 
was  elected  a  County  Councillor. 


fs^AMl'lS  C.  .M(  l)(),\.\l.I),*  an  extensive 
laudliolder  of  Albert  C<iunty,  New 
Hi  uns'.vick,  is  also  a  prominent  f.irmer 
and  one  of  the  leading  citizens  of  the  town  of 
Coverdale.  \  son  of  the  latt;  Duncan  McDon- 
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(il;is;^(i\v,  rictnii  County,  N.  S. ,  of  cxccllciil 
Si'oU'li  anc'ostiy.  ilLs  [KitciiKil  grandfather, 
also  named  IJinaan,  was  Ixirn  ami  sj/cnt  his  en- 
tire sixty-live  years  ol  lil'e  in  Scotland,  lie 
was  an  iniUistrioiis,  thrifty  man,  who  in  addi- 
tion to  farming  was  hii'nely  interested  in  nian- 
n  fact  mini;  lime,  ownin;;'  and  operatinj;-  several 
kilns.  His  wife,  Isabelle,  who  lived  to  a  ripe 
old  aye,  bore  him  six  ehildren,  Duncan,  Jr., 
beinj;'  the  third  son. 

l)un(an  ^FcDonald,  Jr.,  was  born  on  the  old 
homestead  in  .Sidtland,  and  after  leaving'  school 
was  enf.;aged  in  the  lime  woiks  with  his  father 
for  a  mniiber  of  yeais.  When  about  twenty- 
oif;ht  years  old  he  came  to  Canada,  and  located 
in  I'ictou  CountN',  Nova  .'^colia,  two  of  his 
brothers  comini;  o\er  in  the  same  ship.  l''ind- 
in.i;  employment  in  a  shi])-yard,  he  remained 
there  some  time;  and  then,  having;  receive<l 
from  the  imperi.d  f^overnmcnt  a  ,i;rant  of  land 
in  I'ictou  County,  he  took  possession  of  it,  and 
fiiim  that  time  until  his  death  at  the  ago  of 
sixty-five  )ears  carrieil  on  general  farming  with 
moie  than  ordinary  success.  After  coniinj;  to 
Nova  Scotia  he  met  and  married  Jessie  Mc- 
(irc,L;or,  who  outlived  bini  several  years,  dyin<;- 
at  the  ad\aiiced  age  of  seventy-eight.  She 
was  a  member  of  the  I're.sbyterian  church,  to 
which  he  also  belonged  ami  in  which  be  was 
an  active  woiker.  Of  their  seven  chiklren 
three  aie  living,  namel}':  Cbiislic,  widow  of 
the  late  iJonald  Mcl'herson,  of  I'ictou,  N.S.  ; 
Alexander,  who  married  Catherine  l'"iaser,  of 
rictou,  \..S.,  and  has  four  tbildren — Duncan 
J.,  Jessie,  Christie,  and  John;  and  James  C., 
the  direct  subject  (jf  this  sketch. 


i\fter  attending  scluxd  in  I'ictou  County, 
James  (i.  McDonald  went  to  Halifax,  where  be 
served  a  three  years'  apiircnticeship  at  the 
stone-mason's  trade,  (joing  thenco  to  the 
United  Stales,  he  worked  there  as  a  mason  for 
a  brief  time,  and  then  returneil  to  I'ictou 
C'ounty,  wbeie  he  e^tal)lishe(l  himself  as  a  con- 
tractor for  mason  work.  While  there  he  built 
the  Kirk  Church  and  many  other  large  build- 
ings of  ec|ual  note,  as  wcl'.  as  the  Normal 
.School  building  in  Truro.  In  1S91  he  came 
to  .New  Brunswick  to  work  on  the  penitentiary 
then  in  process  of  construction  at  iJorchester, 
and  alter  the  big  fire  at  St.  John  in  1.S77 
located  in  that  city,  and  cbning  its  rebuilding 
was  one  of  the  leading  contiactors.  .Subse- 
(|uently  giving  uji  his  trade,  be  purchased  a 
farm  of  fifteen  hundred  acres  in  the  p;irish  of 
Coverdale,  where  he  has  since  resided,  devot- 
ing his  attention  to  general  farming,  although 
be  makes  hay  his  jirincipal  crop.  fie  also  has 
large  tracts  of  woodland  in  the  vicinity,  ;ind  is 
known  as  one  if  the  largest  leal  estate  owners 
in  that  section  of  the  rro\ince.  I'cditically, 
he  is  a  Conserxat  ive.  He  is  a  member  of 
Albion  Lodge,  I".  cS:  .\.  M.,  of  New  (ilasgow, 
\.  .S.,  and  of  the  New  (ilasgow  Lodge, 
I.  ().  O.   V. 

Mr.  McDonald  has  been  twice  married. 
His  fust  wife,  Maria  Marshall,  daughter  of 
James  Marshall,  of  I'ictou,  N.S. ,  died  at  the 
age  of  twenty-three  years,  leaving  one  child, 
Minnie  M.  McDonald.  She  was  a  member  of 
the  I'resbyterian  c  lunch.  .Mr.  .McDonald  after- 
ward married  Maiy,  daiightei'  of  William 
l''raser,   of    I'ictou,    N.  .S,  ;  and   she  died  when 


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(5j|.\Mi:.S  Ui:\N'()I,l)S,  a  ixliied  liuslncss 
man  ol  St.  J<iliii,  was  Ixiin  in  that  city 
in  Ortobur,  iSjo,  S(in  ot  iiernard  and 
Mar\'  (Uroomc)  Keyncdds.  I  lis  latluT  was  a 
native  of  Ciahva)-,  Ireland,  while  ills  nidther 
was  born  in  Manehester,  England,  and  Mr. 
KeNiidlds  withont  doubt  inherited  the  best 
characteristics  dl'  the  two  races  from  which  he 
sprang. 

Hernard  Reyndlds  resiiletl  lor  a  time  in  Eng- 
land, where  he  mairied,  and  after  his  arrival 
in  America  in  1 S 1  cS  he  niiened  a  merchant 
taih  ring  establi.shnienl  in  St.  jdhn,  which  was 
carried  on  nndcr  his  name  fur  ui)ward  ol  lifty 
years.  lie  was  the  lather  df  .seven  sons,  and 
James,  the  subject  dl  this  sketch,  is  the  only 
due  of  these  miw  lixing. 

James  Reyndlds  was  educated  at  the  .St.  Jdhn 
(iranimar  Schodl,  then  under  the  direction  of 
Dr.  I'atterson,  and  at  the  liaptist  .Seminary, 
Horton,  N.S.,  wheie,  in  addition  td  dther 
branches  of  Icaining,  he  pursued  courses  in 
Latin  and  ( iieck  under  Dr.  I'i\(ir.  Hi:.  Inisi- 
ness  life  was  begun  in  the  shipping  and  mer- 
cantile house  of  I.  i^  I.  (i.  Wdddward,  with 
whom  he  leinained  twd  years,  and  afterwaiil  for 
the  same  length  df  time  he  was  employt'd  in 
the  dry-gcidils  business  by  S.  Nichids,  who  was 
then  president  of  the  Hank  of  New  Jirunswick.  i 
Leaving  Mr.  Nichols  for  the  |iurposu  of  assist- 
ing his  father,  he  later  went  to  New  Vnvk  with 
a    \iew    of    peifecting    his    knowledge    of    the  1 


tailoring  business,  and  while  there  he  was 
employed  for  a  time  in  tlie  ollice  of  the  New 
York  Tribune.  Upon  his  return  to  .St.  John 
he  succeeded  his  father  in  business,  which  he 
conducted  successfully  for  many  years,  anil 
eni]iloyed  an  average  of  thirty-fivo  hands. 
IIa\ing  accumulated  a  fortune,  he  retired  in 
1S71,  and  has  e\er  since  de\(ited  his  time  td 
his  investment  interests.  As  a  citi/en  \v 
stands  high  in  the  estimatinn  df  the  cdmmu- 
nity,  and  dniing  his  days  df  business  activity 
he  enjdved  the  gddd  will  df  his  empldyees. 

In  iS'55  i\Ir.  Reynolds  married  Miss  Char- 
lotte ]'anma  Waddington,  daugliter  of  \\.  C. 
Waddington,  formerly  of  Liverpool,  luigland. 
Her  father  came  to  .St.  John  in  tlie  interest  of 
his  l)r<ithers,  who  were  extensive  merchants 
and  ship-lniildeis,  having  a  branch  in  this 
city.  Mrs.  Re3nolds  became  the  mother  of 
se\en  children,  namely:  Mary;  Alice  Ciertrude, 
wile  of  r.  Charles  Millett,  of  Hnffalo,  \.\'.  ; 
.Susan  ]1i'dome;  J'lmma  ('.  ;  .Maigaiet  J.ine; 
C'harles;  and  I'Vank  Lucas.  Mrs.  Ivyudlds 
died  in  1 S84,  and  her  children  have  inherited 
a  large  incume  Mdm  the  estate  of  her  uncles. 

Ml'.  Reynolds  is  one  of  .Si.  John's  foremost 
pnblic-spirited  cili/ens,  and  his  public  ser- 
vices have  been  ])erformed  with  the  same  en- 
ergy and  abilit\  as  that  which  characterized  his 
business  career.  lie  was  actively  concerned 
in  organi/ing  the  volunteci  lire  dcpartmeiil,  in 
which  he  served  fdr  manv  veais  as  engineer  cif 
(iimpany  Nd.  5.  lie  is  president  of  the  I'ire 
Relief  .Societv,  fdrmed  when  the  greater  jior- 
tion  of  .St.  John  was  burned,  in  1S77,  and  is 
cliairman   of    the   Hoard   of    Health.      In   Mav, 


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iS^.S,  Mr.  KcynnliU  was  made  pii'sidont  ol  the 
St.  Jiilui'.-i  l-iflicl  and  Aiil  Scirit'ty,  and  lio  lias 
1)0011  ifolootod  o\oiy  Micti'odinn'  yoar  sinoo, 
a  I'aot  showing  tliat  tho  able  niaiiiior  in  whiili 
ho  has  fulfillod  the  roc|iiironionts  nf  that  oClico 
is  aiipiooiatod  by  tho  jioople  of  St.  John. 

Mr.  Ko)n(ilds  was  oloctod  (hairman  ot  the 
fust  moot  inn' (il  tho  I  lurliiiiltural  Snoioty  hold 
ill  St.  Jiiliii,  and  is  at  prosont  soorotary  ot  tho 
Park  Assooiatioii.  In  his.  roliyious  boliof  ho 
is  a  I'lonian  C'atiiolio. 


|i:V.  WI'LI.INC.TON  CAM  I','  pastor 
cil  tho  I'irst  Haptist  Cluiroh  at  llills- 
biirii,  Albert  C'nimt)',  M.H.,  was  born 
Jaiuiary  15,  1.S5O,  ii.  Jomsog,  (Jiioons  County, 
\.  li.,  on  tho  homosload  whoro  both  his  father, 
John  James  Camp,  and  his  grandfather,  Goorgo 
Camp,  wore  linrn  and  brought  \\\i. 

His  groat-giaiuUalhor,  Abiathai'  Camp,  li\od 
in  Xow  lla\en,  Conn.,  until  tho  (.lose  of  tho 
.\niorioan  Revolution,  when  in  i/S,^,  being  a 
Loyalist,  he  came  to  Xow  llrunswick  to  spend 
his  remaining  days.  lie  looatod  on  a  largo 
trait  of  land  in  Joiiisol;,  where,  being  a  man  of 
oonsiderablo  wealth,  ho  lived  in  oomfort  until 
his  death  in  lS.(i.  ( >f  his  ton  ohildron  (loorgo 
was  the  second  son 

(ieorgo  C!ani|)  was  born  .\pril  iS,  1791,  on 
tho  home  f.irm  in  Jomsog,  and  there  hdlowod 
agrii-ultui'o  until  bis  doatii,  which  oeeuried 
May  II,  l(S5o.  lie  married  Mary  I-'orris,  who 
was  born  July  Ji>,  i.Soi,  it  (irand  I,ako, 
Oueons  County,  and  died  June  S,  1896.  She 
was  a  member  of  the   liaptist   eluiroh,  while   ho 


belonged  to  the  .\nglican  iliurob.  ()l  iboir 
cbildron  eight  grow  to  adult  life,  as  fidlows; 
John  JanioH,  Rebecca  }.,  (ieorgo  W. ,  Sarah  I'".. , 
Rachel,  Mary,  Abiathar,  and  .Maria. 

John  James  Camp,  whoso  birth  oconrn'd  l)e- 
combor  4,  iSkj,  still  li\is  on  the  aiuoslial 
homestead,  and  is  hold  in  high  I'steom  through- 
out  tho  community  as  a  man  of  sterling  in- 
tegrity and  upright  tharaotor.  lie  married 
Mmma,  daughter  of  John  and  I'rudenie  (Hayes) 
McCurdy,  ot  Ncjiton,  .\.H.  She  was  born  in 
1S25,  and  died  in()ctober,  iSS^.  'I'hoy  wore 
the  parents  of  ton  children,  of  whom  seven  are 
now  living,  as  follows:  John  MoC,  of  Wood- 
stock, X.  M.,  who  married  .Saiah  Smith,  of  St. 
.Andrews,  and  has  so\'en  ohildron;  (ieorgo  R., 
M.  1). ,  an  active  pr.ict  it  i<jnor  at  I'pper  .Shef- 
field, who  married  Annie  Clark,  of  (irand  Hay, 
X.li.,  and  has  six' children  ;  i'rudenco,  wife  of 
Stilson  Dyeman,  of  Jomsog,  who  has  so\on 
ohihhi'ii;  W'ollin.nton,  tho  spi'cial  subject  of 
this  sketch;  ]'..  Harris,  who  ni;irriod  .Susan 
Andrews,  of  .St.  (ieorgo,  ,\'.H.,  and  has  three 
children;  lilla,  wife  of  Abraham  White,  of 
(irand  I.aki',  who  has  five  ohildron;  and 
Adolaiile,  wife  of  Martin  Watt,  of  (iiand 
Monan,  X.l?. 

Wellington  Camp  obtainotl  tho  rudiments  of 
his  education  in  the  common  schools  of  Jom- 
seg,  afti'r  which  ho  attended  tho  (iagetown 
(irammai'  .School  and  the  i'rodoriclon  .Normal 
•School,  and  was  |ireparecl  for  tho  ministry  at 
tho  Xowton  'riieological  .Seminary  at  Xewton 
Centre,  Mass.,  graduating  in  iSS^.  Immodi- 
atolv  after  roceiving  his  diploma,  ho  acco|)lt'd 
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Jolin,  N.  15. ,  where  he  remained  two  years.  In 
1S86  he  went  to  Ilillsboro  to  take  charge  of 
the  l""irst  Baptist  Church,  witii  wliich  he  luis 
since  been  conncctetl.  Under  his  ])ast<iratc 
the  churcii  lias  prospered,  numerically  and 
tinancially,  and  accui)ies  a  jilace  of  inlhience 
among  the  religious  organizations  of  the  com- 
munity. Mr.  Camj)  is  a  member  and  Chaplain 
of  the  Ilillsboro  Court,  I.  ( ).  I"'.;  of  the 
I.atuel  Orange  Order;  and  of  the  Independent 
Order  of  Ciood  Temidars. 

On  March  iS,  1885,  Mr.  Camp  married 
Mary  iMaiues,  daughter  of  William  II.  and 
Lydia  A.  (Haker)  Long,  of  I-'airville,  \.  li. 
They  have  four  children:  Mimiie  L.,  born 
March  _'0,  i.S8f);  Helen  K.,  born  July  31, 
1888;  \V.  Gordon,  born  January  13,  1S90; 
and  Diirothy  I'"..,  liorii  January  31,   1897. 


MR  JOHN   c.\Mi'HHLL    ai,li-:n, 

late  (if  l-'redeiiiton,  ex-Chief  Ju'^- 
''  '"'^  tice  of  the  .Supreme  Court,  was  born 
in  the  parish  of  Kingsclear,  York  County, 
N.H. ,  October  1,1817.  He  was  a  son  of  John 
iVllen,  lor  many  years  a  prominent  factor  in 
the  civil  and  military  affairs  of  this  ])ro\ince; 
and  the  grandfather  was  Isaac  .XUen,  who 
previous  to  the  American  Revolution  practised 
law  in  Trenton,  N.J.  Isaac  Allen  was  loyal 
to  the  crown,  serving  as  Lieutenant  Colonel  of 
the  Second  Battalion,  Xew  Jei'sey  \'olunteers. 
In  1783  he  settled  in  Xova  .Scotia.  When  the 
jnovince  of  New  Hrunswick  was  organized,  he 
was  appointed  a  Justice  of  the  .Supreme  Court, 
and  continued  in  office   until   his  tleath,  which 


occurred  in  October,  1806.  His  wife,  a  na- 
tive of  I'hiladeliihia,  was  before  marriage 
Sarah  Campbell. 

John  Allen,  .Sir  John  Cam|)bell  Allen's 
father,  was  in  his  younger  days  a  Captain  in 
the  Xew  Brunswick  I'"encibles,  a  corjis  raised 
in  tliis  jirovince  iluring  the  War  of  181:!  and 
commanded  bv  Cieneral  John  Coffin.  That 
regiment  was  disbanded  in  1817;  and  he  was 
sul)S(.'i|uentl)'  appointed  Lieutenant  Colonel 
and  Inspecting  l'"iekl  Officer  of  the  |)rovincial 
militia,  serving  as  such  until  that  office  was 
abcdished,  and  was  later  appointed  Ouarter- 
master-general.  From  1S09  to  1847  he  rep- 
resented York  County  in  the  I'rovineial  As- 
sembly. John  -Allen  dietl  in  1875,  at  the 
advanced  age  of  ninet_\-oiie  years.  His  first 
wife,  the  mother  of  the  subject  (if  this  sketch, 
died  in  1822. 

John  Campbell  -Mien  was  educated  in  b'red- 
erictoii,  aiul  studied  law  with  the  IL/ii.  John 
Simcoe  .Saunders,  son  of  the  then  C'hief  Jus- 
tice of  New  Brunswick.  He  w.is  admitted  as 
an  attorney  in  October,  1838,  and  became  a 
member  of  the  bar  in  the  fall  of  1840.  In 
1845  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  conimis- 
sioiiers  to  settle  the  land  chiinis  under  article 
four  of  till'  Washington  'I'leatyof  1842.  That 
jiart  of  the  dis|)uted  territory  which  became 
British  soil  was  inhabiteil  b\  -\cadian  I'"rench, 
to  whom  the  provincial  government  refused  to 
issue  grants  ;  and  from  1845  to  1847  the  com- 
mission appointed  to  investigate  and  adjust 
these  dilficulties  was  engaged  in  hearing  and 
determining  the  claims  of  all  settlers  between 
the    Grand    Falls    of    St.    John    and    the    St. 


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Francis  Rivers.  From  November,  185 1,  to 
January,  1856,  Jt)hn  C.  Allen  served  as  clerk 
of  the  Provincial  Executive  Council.  In  Feb- 
ruary of  the  latter  year  he  was  elected  a  Rej)- 
resentative  from  \'()rk  County  to  the  General 
Assembly,  and  in  May,  1856,  was  appointed 
Solicitor-general,  holding  that  office  until  the 
following  year,  when  his  party  was  defeated. 
Declining  the  position  of  Queen's  Counsel  in 
1 860,  he  re-entered  the  As.senibly  in  1862, 
and  served  as  Speaker  until    its  dissolution  in 

1865.  He  was  again  returned  as  an  op])onent 
of  confederation  in  April  of  that  year,  was  ap- 
pointed Attorney-General,  and  in  June,  1865, 
he  and  the  Hon.  AI!)ert  J.  Smith,  afterward 
Sir  Albert  J.  Smith,  were  sent  as  delegates  to 
London,  to  present  New  Brunswick's  objection 
to  the  proposed  Canadian  Confede-Ttion.  On 
September  21,  1865,  he  was  appointed  a  Judge 
of  the  Suiireme  Court;  and  on  October  8, 
1875,  he  succeeded  the  Hon.  William  J. 
Ritchie    as    Chief    Justice.       On    October    8, 

1866,  he  was  appointal  X'ice-l'rcsident  of  the 
Court  of  Governor  and  Council,  for  determin- 
ing suits  relating  to  marriage  and  divorce;  and 
in  June,  1878,  he  was  .selected  in  place  of  the 
late  Governor  Wiimot,  as  an  arbitrator  in  the 
north-western  boundary  dispute,  the  others 
being  Sir  lulward  Thornton,  Hritisb  Minister 
at  Washington,  and  Chief  Justice  Harri.son,  of 
Ontario.  Ihit,  uniortunately,  his  judicial 
duties  would  not  permit  him  to  enter  upon  the 
work,  and  he  accordingly  resigned. 

Among  the  more  notable  criminal  trials  over 
wliich  Chief  Justice  Allen  was  called  upon  to 
preside  were  that  of  the  Osborne  family,  who 


were  tried  twice  for  the  murder  of  Timothy 
McCarthy  in  Shcdiac,  Westmoreland  County, 
each  trial  resulting  in  a  disagreement;  the 
trial  of  several  persons  at  Uathurst,  Gloucester 
County,  for  partici])ating  in  the  Carraquet 
riots  caused  by  the  enforcement  of  the  Common 
School  Act :  that  of  Chasson  and  ten  others 
for  the  murder  of  one  Gifford,  who  aided  the 
sheriffs  in  arresting  the  above-mentioned  riot- 
ers ;  and  the  trial  of  John  A.  Monroe  for  the 
murder  of  Sarah  M.  Vail  and  her  child  at  St. 
John. 

When  a  young  man  Judge  Allen  was  active 
in  military  affairs,  joining  as  early  as    18^5  a 
volunteer  comjia-iy    of    artillery   that   in    1838 
became  part  of  a  regiment  known  as  the   New 
Hrunswick   Royal   Artillery.      He  ro.se  to  the 
rank   of    Captain   in   the   militia,    served   from 
1 844  to  1848  as  Aide-de-cam]i  on   the   staff  of 
Sii    William    Colebrook,  Lieutenant  Governor 
of  New  Hrunswick,  and  retired   from   the  ser- 
vice in  18(15.      During  the  year   1851    he  pre- 
sided over  the  city  government  of  I'redericton 
as  the  first  PJayor  elected  by  jiopular  vote,  that 
officer  having  previously  been  appointed  by  the 
Council.      In  1887  he  i)ublished  a  book  con- 
taining the  rules  of  the   Provincial    Supreme 
Court,  together  with   the  acts  of  Assembly  rel- 
ative to  that  body;  and,  as  he  was  for  a   long 
period  Reporter  for  the  Sujireme  Court,  he  com- 
piled and   issued  many  volumes  of  law  reports 
containing  a  number  of    imixirtant    decisions. 
He  received  the  degree  of   Doctor  of   Laws 
from    the    University    of    New    Hrunswick    in 
1882,   and  that  of  Doctor  of  Civil   Law  from 
King's  College,  Windsor,  N.S.,  in  1890.     He 


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was  knifjhtccl  by  Ifcr  Majesty,  Queen  Victoria, 
in  1889;  and  in  188S,  his  fiftieth  anniversary 
as  an  attorney,  he  was  ])resente(i  with  a  valu- 
able piece  of  jilate  by  the  members  of  the  St. 
John  bar.  In  1893  the  New  Brunswick  bar 
presented  to  the  Supreme  Court  a  life-size  ])or- 
trait  of  the  Chief  Justice,  which  now  hangs  m 
the  court-room  in  Frcdericton.  While  hold- 
ing court  at  St.  Andrews,  Charlotte  County, 
in  November,  1893,  Chief  Justice  All'.-n  was 
stricken  with  jiaralysis,  which  compelled  him 
to  resign  his  office  and  retire  from  public  life, 
and  eventually  caused  his  death,  on  the  27th 
of  Seiitember,  1898. 

Sir  Jcihrj  C.  Allen  was  a  communicant  of 
the  Church  of  England  and  a  greatly  valued 
member  of  the  synod  and  church  society  of 
the  diocese,  a  warden  of  the  jiarisJi  church  for 
twenty  years;  and  in  1877  and  1880  he  was  a 
delegate  to  the  Provincial  Synod  at  Montreal. 
His  ability  and  high  personal  character  were 
known  and  appreciated  by  his  many  acquaint- 
ances among  the  legal  profession  of  the  United 
States  (with  whom  he  was  in  a  sense  associated 
as  a  number  of  the  Medico-Legal  Association 
of  New  York),  as  well  as  throughout  the  Brit- 
ish dominion;  and  his  enforced  retirement 
from  the  seat  of  honor  he  so  long  and  ably 
filled  was  looked  upon  with  sincere  regret. 

In  1845  -Sir  John  C.  Allen  married  Margaret 
A.  Drury,  daughter  of  Captain  Charles  Drury, 
of  the  Ninth  Regiment  Infantry,  who  died  in 
St.  John  in  1835.  Mrs.  Allen  became  thi; 
mother  of  seven  sons  and  two  daughters.  The 
daughters  died  young ;  and  two  of  the  sons — 
John  antl  Charles  Drury  Allen  —  are  no  longer 


living.  The  survivors  are:  William  K.,  ac- 
countant of  the  Fredericton  Boom  Company ; 
Thomas  Carleton,  Clerk  of  the  I'leas;  lulward 
II.,  clerk  of  the  Barker  House,  I*"redericton  ; 
George  W.,  a  barrister-at-law  in  this  city;  and 
Henry  Allen,  who  is  in  business  in  New  York 
City. 

William  K.  vMlen,  who  has  been  connected 
with  the  I'redericton  Boom  Com])any  for  the 
]iast  fifteen  years,  represented  York  County  in 
the  Provincial  rarlianient  from  1882  to  1885, 
when  his  father's  failing  health  caused  hini  to 
retire  permanently  from  politics,  and  he  was 
succeeded  by  I\Ir.  John  Black.  Mr.  Allen 
married  Olivia  Laura  Glasier,  fourth  daughter 
of  Stephen  Glasier,  of  Llmwood,  Lincoln, 
Sunbury  County,  N.  B.  She  died  September 
30,  1897,  leaving  two  sons— -John  Campbell 
and  W.  Kenah  Allen. 


r^^l  KNRY  AUGUSTUS  CONNKLL,*  of 
the  firm  of  Connell  Brothers,  founders 
and  machinists  at  Woodstock,  N.B. , 
is  a  well-known  business  man  and  an  iiiHuen- 
tial  citizen.  He  was  born  in  Woodstock, 
October  24,  1834,  a  son  of  Henry  I""armer 
Connell.  His  paternal  graiulfatiier,  Charles 
Connell,  Wl  o  was  a  Loyalist,  settled  in  Wood- 
stock when  a  young  man,  and  engaged  in  gen- 
eral larniing. 

Henry  Farmer  Connell  was  born  in  Wood- 
stock in  the  year  1800,  and  during  the  earlier 
part  of  his  life  liveo  on  the  parental  homestead. 
In  1839  he  removed  to  the  then  village  of 
Woodstock,   where   he   established    a    tannery, 


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which  he  carried  on  successfully  for  many 
years.  Being  forcec!  on  account  of  impaired 
health  to  give  u])  business,  he  sjient  one  winter 
in  the  South,  hoping  there  to  recuperate  his 
energies,  hut  died  soon  after  liis  return  home, 
lie  married  Isal)ella  Harding,  of  Maugerville, 
N. H.,  and  had  four  children,  namely:  T'liza, 
deceased,  who  was  the  wife  of  the  late  Rev. 
RFr.  Allen,  of  St.  John;  Henry  Augustus,  the 
sjiccial  subject  of  this  sketch;  Charles  F.,  of 
Albany,  N.Y.  ;  and  William,  deceased.  The 
mother  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church. 
Henry  A.  C./nnell's  career  as  a  pupil  in  the 
jiublic  schools  of  Woodstock  was  suddenly  ter- 
minated the  morning  when  he,  a  lad  of  fourteen 
years,  threw  an  ink  bottle  at  the  head  of  the 
schoolmaster.  The  latter  at  once  locked  the 
door  to  prevent  the  escape  of  the  offender,  but 
the  irate  youth  made  his  exit  through  a  win- 
dow. Not  daring  to  go  home,  he  left  town 
with  nothing  e.Nceiit  the  clothes  he  was  wear- 
ing at  the  time,  and,  going  to  the  northern 
part  of  Maine,  there  secured  work  at  stream 
driving.  The  following  summfir  he  returned 
to  New  Brunswick,  and  during  the  season  was 
emiiloyeil  in  rumiiiig  rafts  between  h'redericton 
and  .St.  John,  doing  tiien  to  Bangor,  Me.,  he 
learned  llie  maciunist's  trade  with  Hinckley  & 
Ivgery,  after  which  he  went  to  Cherry  field, 
Me.,  where  he  ])Ut  two  engines  into  a  steam- 
boat. Tiiat  work  completed,  Mr.  Conncll  re- 
turned to  I-'redericton  to  take  charge  of  a 
steamer  running  between  that  place  and  St. 
John.  In  the  fall  of  the  year  he  went  to  Jack, 
sonville,  I''Ia.,  where  he  was  occupied  for  a  few 
months  as  a  machinist,  and  then  took  a  con- 


tract to  put  up  and  repair  engines  on  a  i  lanta- 
tion  near  by.  Going  thence  to  I'alatka  l-'la. , 
he  worked  as  an  engineer,  and  was  aftjrward 
the  captain  of  a  steamer  plying  between  that 
town  and  l-jiterprise  until  January,   1857. 

Mr.  Connell  proceedeil  then  to  .South  Amer- 
ica, and,  after  working  four  months  in  the 
government  railroad  shops  in  Rio  Janeiro,  went 
to  Huenos  Ayres,  where  he  was  engaged  three 
months  as  engineer  on  a  steamei-  running  up 
the  Uruguay  River  as  far  as  Salto.  (Jne  day, 
while  he  was  thus  engaged,  (iencral  I'"lores, 
leader  of  the  revolutionary  party  in  Uruguay, 
in  civilian's  dress,  boarded  his  vessel  with  his 
troops,  and  after  the  steamer  had  started  made 
himself  known,  and  demanded  to  be  landed  at 
Rincon  (lallenas.  Cajitain  Connell  replied 
that  he  did  not  stoi)  there;  but  the  general 
cpnckly  said,  "  Vou  will  stop  there."  The 
Captain,  profiting  by  what  he  had  learned  of 
the  people  of  that  country,  took  the  hint,  and 
landed  tlie  general  and  ids  forces  at  their  de- 
sired ha\en.  After  the  Paraguayan  war  was 
well  under  way,  Ca|)tain  Connell's  steamer  was 
leased  from  the  government  at  Buenos  Ayres ; 
and,  while  he  was  lying  at  the  lower  jiort  of 
Salto,  just  previous  to  starting  out,  an  officer 
apinoached  him,  and  demanded  tiiat  the  steamer 
be  taken  to  the  upjier  |)ort  to  carry  troops  to 
I'i.sandu.  He  replied  that  the  engines,  which 
were  broken  down,  would  have  to  be  rejiaired 
first.  The  officer  wished  to  send  hjiglish  en- 
gineers to  assist  in  the  reiKiiriug,  but  the  Cap- 
tain declined  all  offers  of  assistance.  Taking 
off  a  part  of  the  engine,  he  went  ashore;  and, 
having  secreted  this,  he  went  to  a  fashionable 


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cafe,  where  lie  chanced  to  meet  tlie  engineers 
before  referred  to.  Inviting  tliem  to  become 
his  guests  at  dinner,  he  served  them  sumptu- 
onsl)-  with  wine;  and,  when  he  found  tiiat  they 
had  inibii)ed  a  sufficient  (|uantity  of  li(|ui)r  t<i 
render  them  harmless  as  engineers,  he  returned 
to  his  vessel,  successfully  making  his  way, 
oftentimes  on  his  hantls  and  knees,  through  the 
various  picket  lines,  carrying  with  him  the 
[)arts  of  his  engine,  which  he  hastily  put  in 
order.  (Juietly  slipping  the  anchor,  the  cur- 
rent carried  him  to  the  Argentine  shore,  where 
he  was  safe.  Because  of  this  act  an  edict  was 
issued  for  the  taking  of  Cajitain  Cornell,  dead 
or  alive,  an  edict  which  remained  in  force  two 
years.  He  formed  a  large  acquaintance  along 
the  Uruguay  River,  becoming  well  known 
among  the  military  and  civil  officers  on  both 
sides,  as  well  as  the  prominent  merchants. 

Mr.  Connell  subsequently  located  at  Monte- 
video, Uruguay,  where  for  two  years  he  was 
engineer  in  a  large  flouring-mill.  From  there 
he  started  for  China  on  the  ill-fatetl  steamer 
"Mississippi,"  whicii  was  wrecked  off  the  Cajie 
of  Good  Hope.  He  was  ])icked  up  by  a  Swed- 
ish bark,  which  landed  him  at  St.  Helena, 
from  which  island,  eleven  days  later,  he  found 
a  passage  to  Rio  Janeiro,  whence  he  proceeded 
to  Montevideo  antl  then  to  Buenos  Ayres. 
There,  after  working  at  his  trade  three  months, 
he  went  on  board  a  steamer,  first  as  an  engineer 
and  then  as  the  cajjtain,  a  position  which  he 
retained  thirteen  years,  for  nearly  five  years 
having  charge  of  a  fleet  of  fifty-five  steamers. 
In  \SCn)  he  returned  home  for  a  visit,  and, 
after  remaining  one  day  in  Woodstock,  went  to 


New  York,  where  he  lunchased  a  .steamer, 
which  he  at  once  took  to  Buenos  Ayres.  In 
I1S70  Mr.  Connell  returned  permanently  to 
Woodstock,  and,  building  hi;;  jjresent  foundry, 
has  since  carried  on  an  extensive  business,  the 
firm  name  being  Connell  Brothers,  although 
he  has  always  been  sole  pro])rietor.  He  em- 
ploys about  fifty  men  in  his  works,  and  manu- 
factures a  larger  variety  of  articles  than  are 
maile  in  any  other  foundry  in  Canada,  turning 
out  stoves,  shingle-machines,  mowing-ma- 
chines,   implements  of  all  kinds. 

A  man  of  keen  judgment,  good  e.xeculive 
ability,  and  much  force  of  character,  Mr.  Con- 
nell is  a  man  bound  to  succeed  wherever 
placed.  He  is  liberal-minded  and  public- 
spirited,  and  in  an  official  capacity  has  ren- 
dered the  town  excellent  service.  He  is 
independent  in  jiolitics.  For  three  terms  he 
was  Mayor  of  Woodstock ;  and  he  was  after- 
ward elected  to  the  House  of  As.sembly,  and 
became  a  member  of  the  Blair  government. 
He  has  also  been  for  several  years  a  trustee 
of  the  Woodstock  .School  Board.  In  1.S89  he 
organized  the  County  Flectric  Light  Comixiny, 
of  which  he  has  since  been  manager,  and  is 
now  vice-president  and  manager  of  the  Tobicpie 
\'alley  Mining  and  Manufacturirig  Company. 
He  was  made  a  l"'iee  Mason  at  ]']xcelsior  Lodge 
in  Buenos  Ayres,  and  is  still  a  member  of 
that  organization.  He  attends  liie  Anglican 
church. 

Mr.  Connell  has  one  child  living — ^ namely, 
a  daughter,  Gussie  (^icrtrucle,  by  his  first  wife. 
F'or  his  seconil  wife  lie  married  KUen,  daughter 
of  James  McDonald,  of  W(jodstock. 


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ISAAC  CLAYTON  rUKSCOTT,*  an  en- 
ergetic ami  thriving  business  man  <>f  the 
town  of  Albert,  Albert  County,  is  an  ex- 
tensive lumber  rlealer  and  manufacturer,  the 
junior  member  of  the  firm  of  C.  S.  &  I.  C. 
I'rescott.  He  was  born  November  2,  J  861, 
in  I'ennfield,  Charlotte  County,  which  was 
also  the  birthplace  of  bis  father,  Joshua  I'res- 
cott. 

His  grandfather,  Jesse  I'rescott,  was  born  in 
Mount    Vernon,    Me.,    August    28,    1791,    and 
died  February    11,    1885,    in   I'ennfield,    N.B. 
A  resident  of  Maine  until  1815,  Jesse  I'rescott 
came  then  to  New  Brunswick  and  settled   in 
Clharlotte   County,  where  he   bought   timbered 
land,  which  by  years  of  unceasing  toil   he   im- 
proved into  a  conifortaiile  homestead.      Coming 
from  good  I'uritan  stock,  he  inherited  both  the 
mental  and  physical  vigor  of  his  ancestors,  and 
in  his  adoptctl  home  exerted  a   wide-felt   and 
lasting  infiucnce.      On  May    i,   1820,  he  mar- 
ried Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Knight,  of  I'enn- 
field; and  of  their  seven  sons  and  one  daughter 
the  following  named  children  are  now  living: 
Catherine,  wife  of  Tobias   Mealey,  of   Minne- 
sota; Joshua,  father   of   Isaac   C.  ;  Moses,  who 
married  Alice  Chaffee;  John,  whose  first  wife, 
Sarah    Dinsmore,  died    several   years  ago,   and 
who  subsequently  married  Mmma,  daughter  of 
Deacon    Kelley,    of    Calais,    Me.  ;    and   Jes.se, 
who    married    Abigail     \'oung.       Both    Jesse 
I'rescott  and  his  wife  far  outlived  the  allotted 
span  of  earthly  life,  he  attaining  the  venerable 
age  of  ninety-four  years,  while  she  died  at  that 
of  ninety-three.      In  1831  both  united  with  the 
Baptist   church,  making  a  public  profession  of 


faith,  and  were  afterward  among  the  most  ac- 
tive members  of  that  organization. 

Joshua   I'rescott   was   liorn    in    1825,    on   the 
old  home  farm   in   I'ennfield.      When  a  young 
man   he  opened   in   that  town  a   general   store 
stocked  with  merchandise  adapted  to  the  coun- 
try trade.      He  afterward  establishe<l  a  lumber 
business    in   the   same   place,    but   after  a    few 
years  disposed  of  his   interests   there,  and    re- 
moved with  his  family  to  Sussex,  N.H. ,  where 
he  is  now  very  extensively  engaged  in   lumber- 
ing anil  milling.      A  practical,  far-seeing  man, 
well   endowed   with    the  energy   ami   prudence 
cbaracterifltic  of   his   progenitors,    he  has  met 
with    fine    success    in    his    ojjerations,    and    is 
to-day  one  of  tJie  leading  citizens  of  his  town. 
In     [lolitics    an    Independent     Liberal,    he    is 
warmly  interested  in  the  various  reform   move- 
ments of  the  times,  and  is  a  very  active  mem- 
ber of  the    .Sons  of    Temperance.      His   wife, 
Susan,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Justa- 
son,  of  I'ennfield,  died  at  the  age  of  fifty-eight 
years.      She  was  a  woman  of   much   loveliness 
of  character  and  a  faithful  member  of  the   Baji- 
tist  church.      Of  the  six  children  that  blessed 
their  union  i'wu  are  living:   Crandall  S.,  senior 
member  of  the  firn)  of  C.  S.  &  I.  C.  I'rescott, 
who  married   Gcorgie  Boles,  of   Sussex,  N.  B.  ; 
Isaac  Clayton,  whose  personal  history  is  given 
below;    Jesse,    who   married   Annie   McCloud, 
also  of  Sussex;  Gideon,  wlui  married   Rebecca 
Ried,  of  Harvey,  N.B.  ;  and  Joshua,  who  mar- 
ried Mary  Boles,  p  sister  of  his  eldest  brother's 
wife,  and  who  has  one  child,  Crandall. 

Isaac   C.   I'rescott    obtained    his   elementary 
education  in  the  common  schools  of  I'ennfield, 


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after  which  lie  attciulccl  tlie  Mount  Allison 
Acailcmy  at  Sackville,  N.  H. ,  anil  then  took 
a  course  of  study  at  the  college  in  Wolfville, 
N.S.  The  six  years  foll()winj(  the  coni])letion 
of  his  school  life  were  spent  as  a  clerk  in  his 
father's  lumber  office,  a  position  which  he  gave 
up  in  1889  to  embark  in  business  on  bis  owji 
account.  l'"orming  a  partnership  with  his 
brother,  Crandall  S.  I'rcscott,  under  the  jires- 
ent  firm  name,  he  began  manufactiuing  lumber 
at  Albert,  N.U.,  where  he  has  since  estab- 
lished a  general  store.  The  firm,  which  is  one 
of  tile  most  enterprising  and  prosperous  in  that 
part  of  Now  Brunswick,  owns  and  o|)erates  sev- 
eral steam  saw-mills,  some  being  outside  of 
Albert  townshij),  and  emfdoys  a  large  force 
of  men. 

On  July  1 8,  1893,  Mr.  I'rcscott  married 
Minnie  Ried,  daughter  of  Harris  Ried,  of 
Harvey,  N'.H.,  and  a  sister  of  ISIrs.  (iideon 
I'rcscott.  Their  iniion  has  been  brightened 
l)y  the  birth  of  three  children -Jennie, 
Susan,  and  one  other.  Mr.  I'rcscott  takes  an 
active  part  in  advancing  the  jirospcrity  and 
welfare  of  the  town  and  county  in  which  be 
lives,  and  since  his  election  in  1897  as  County 
Councillor  of  Albert  County  has  proved  an 
efficient  public  servant. 


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i:()R(ll':  F.  15AH^I),  who  died  a  few 
\f^_|.  months  since,  on  April  29,  1899, 
was  for  a  number  of  years  one  of  the  lead- 
ing business  men  of  St.  John,  N.  U. ,  being 
manager  of  the  Star  Line  Steamship  Comjiany 
and  extensively  engaged  in  slii|)ping  and   lum- 


ber interests.  He  was  born  in  Wickham  on 
.September  5,  1849,  son  of  (ieorge  and  Mary 
(Case)  Maird,  the  former  of  Scotch  ancestry 
anil  the  latter  a  descendant  of  the  United  Kiv- 
pire  Loyalists.  .Mr.  liaird  was  educated  at 
Kingston  Academy,  Kings  County,  N.  H.  He 
then  studieil  law,  and  in  1875  was  admitted 
attorney,  l-'or  twelve  years  he  was  success- 
fully engaged  in  the  practice  of  law,  and  from 
1876  was  identified  with  the  u'arine  business 
of  the  county  as  ship-owner  and  steamboat 
manager.  In  1886  he  entered  federal  [xditics, 
and  during  the  nine  years  succeeding  repre- 
sented (jueens  County  in  the  Dominion  Par- 
liament. There  liis  wide  knowledge  of  men 
and  affairs  was  exercised  for  the  benefit  of  his 
constituents,  and  rendered  him  a  leailing  and 
intliiential  figmc  among  his  fellow-memhers. 
Mr.  Haird  conducted  a  general  business  in 
steamboating,  shipping,  and  coasting,  and  in 
the  lumber  trade.  His  staff  of  employees 
usually  numbered  two  hundred  and  fiftv. 

He  left  a  widow,  the  daughter  of  Samuel 
MclJermott,  and  one  child,  I'rank  A.  Haiid, 
wiio  was  born  to  them  l'"el)ruary  16,   1876. 


ILLIAM  FYLHR  DIHIH, !•:]•:,*  senior 
member  of  the  fiini  of  W.  1".  Dib- 
blee  &  Sons  at  Woodstock,  N.  li.,  is  one  of  the 
most  extensive  and  prosjierous  hardware  mer- 
chants in  Carleton  Count)'.  Son  of  Lbene/.er 
Dibblee,  he  was  born  in  Northampton,  N. H. , 
July  9,  1 8 10.  He  is  a  descendant  of  one  of 
the  early  settlers  of  this  part  of  the  Province, 
his    grandfather,    I'yler    Dibblee,    a    Loyalist, 


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having  conic  to  New  Urunswick  from  Stamtonl, 
Conn.,  in  1783,  witli  iiis  wile  and  family. 
Fylcr  Dil)l)lcc  was  a  lawyer  by  iirofession,  and 
for  several  years  after  settling  here  was  a 
commissioner  fur  the  colony  of  loyal  immi- 
grants. 

I'"bcnczer  Dibhlee  was  born  in  Stamford, 
CniiM.,  in  177,?.  When  a  young  man  he  car- 
ried the  mail  on  horseback  between  l-'rcderic- 
ton  and  the  parish  of  Norton  for  a  number  of 
seasons,  lie  afterward  innchased  land  in  the 
parish  of  I'etersville,  Queens  County,  and 
there  improved  a  good  farm,  lie  married 
I'Mizabeth  .Secord,  of  Kings  County,  by  whom 
he  had  eleven  children:  Mrs.  Caroline  Under- 
bill, deceased;  Samuel,  deceased;  Mrs.  V.Wa 
Wallace,  a  widow,  wlio  lives  in  Sunbury 
County,  New  Urunswick;  Mrs.  Sophia  Record, 
deceased;  William  Kyler,  the  special  subject 
of  this  .sketch;  Mrs.  Ann  I'lewelling,  de- 
ceased; Isaac,  deceased;  Charlotte,  widow  of 
Joim  Stockford,  who  resides  in  the  parish  of 
Ilampstead,  Uueens  County;  Sidney  All)crt, 
deceased,  late  of  tlie  parish  of  Tetersvillc  and 
at  one  time  Coroner  of  (juecns  County,  who 
had  two  children — William  and  Annie;  Jane, 
decea.sed,  who  was  the  wife  of  the  late  James 
Smith;  and  Margaret,  who  is  the  widow  of  the 
late  James  Jones  and  lives  at  Lancaster,  St. 
John  County,  N.  1$.  Both  parents  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Church  of  Lngland. 

William  F.  Dibblec  received  such  educa- 
tional advantages  as  were  affordetl  the  boys  of 
his  day  and  generation,  and  until  twenty  years 
of  age  worked  on  the  home  farm.  Coming  to 
Woodstock,  he   worked    in    the    lumber    woods 


a  few  years,  and  then  became  a  clerk  for  Jolui 
Walter  Hedell.  A  year  or  two  later  he  ac- 
cei)ted  the  jiosition  of  travelling  agent  and 
collector  for  Robert  Rankin  &  Co.,  with  whom 
he  remained  two  years.  .Starting  then  in  busi- 
ness for  himself,  he  engaged  in  the  manufact- 
ure of  lumber  uiUil  1S70,  when  on  account  of 
ill  health  lie  gave  up  all  active  work  for  seven 
years.  In  1S77  Mr.  Dibhlee,  in  company 
with  his  son,  J.  '['.  Allan  Diliblee,  under  the 
present  firm  name  of  W.  !•'.  Dibhlee  &  Son, 
embarked  in  tiie  hardware  business  in  Wood- 
stock; and  by  their  untiring  energy  and  enter- 
prise tliey  have  developed  one  of  the  largest 
wholesale  and  retail  trades  of  the  county,  their 
store  being  the  leading  one  of  the  kind.  They 
liandie  all  lines  of  hardware,  including  carriage 
stock  of  all  kinds  and  agricultural  implements; 
and  they  deal  also  in  bricks,  lime,  phosphates, 
and  so  forth.  In  their  Woodstock  store  they 
emjiloy  five  clerks  and  a  teamster,  and  they 
also  have  a  branch  store  at  Ilartland  tliat  is 
well  patronized. 

Mr.  Dibhlee,  when  a  young  man,  was  Lieu- 
tenant in  the  Woodstock  Cavalry  Company,  of 
whicli  he  was  later  commissioned  Ca|)tain. 
lie  served  as  a  member  of  the  first  Council  of 
the  town  of  Woodstock,  and  subsec[uently  filled 
the  same  ofTice  several  terms.  r"raternally,  he 
is  a  memi)er  of  Woodstock  Lodge,  V.  &  A.  M. , 
of  wiiich  he  is  Past  Master;  is  Fast  Deputy 
Grand  Master  of  the  (irand  Lodge  of  New 
Urunswick  ;  and  is  Supreme  Grand  of  the  Royal 
Arch  Chajjter  of  Scotland.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Church  of  luigland,  in  which  he  was 
warden  of  the  parish  church  for  .seven  years. 


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Mr.  Dibbleo  first  married  Anna  (lill,  clau|;ii- 
tcr  of  Captain  Anthony  Harlvcr,  of  St.  Mary'.s, 
York  Connty,  N.  H.  Of  the  chilchcn  l)orn  of 
this  union  two  arc  now  living;,  namely:  Georj;e 
\'()unj;-,  of  Fretlcrictun ;  and  J.  T.  y\Iian.  Mrs. 
Ann  G.  Dibi)lee  died  in  October,  i86(v.  Mr. 
Dibbiee  subseeiueutly  married  Margaret  Jai'c, 
daughtei  of  iVter  Ck'iiients,  of  Woodstock. 

J.  T.  Allan  Uibblee  was  born  October  20, 
iSifi,  in  W'lMidstock,  wher,  he  was  brought  up 
and  educated.  When  a  lad  of  fourteen  years 
he  entered  the  ha.dware  store  of  .Smith 
brothers,  with  whom  he  remained  three  years, 
in  the  mean  time  acquiring  a  good  knowledge 
of  the  business.  Going  then  to  St.  John,  he 
was  in  the  em])loy  of  Adam'  Young,  a  hardware 
merchant,  until  he  formed  a  partneiship  with 
his  fatiier  as  junior  member  of  the  iirm  with 
which  he  has  since  been  connecteil.  lie  is 
a  man  of  excellent  judgment  and  business 
ability,  and  is  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Wdod- 
s'ock  Wood  Working  I'oinpany  ami  the  presi- 
dent and  manager  of  the  Wooilstock  Can  iage 
Company,  lie  ranks  high  as  a  Mason,  being 
Past  Master  if  Wo.ulstock  Lodge,  1-".  S;  A.  M., 
Past  District  (jrantl  Master  of  the  Granil 
Lodge,  and  a  member  of  Woodstock  Chapter, 
\i.  A.  M.  lie  also  belongs  to  Iw.nhoe  Lodge, 
K.  of  P.  In  Dominion  politics  he  is  a  Liberal 
Conservative.  Previous  to  1  Sijo  he  served  five 
years  in  tlu  Town  Council  and  one  year  in 
the  County  Council.  In  i  S()o  be  was  elect  jd 
Mayor  of  Wooc'stock.  and  ser\ed  so  acceptably 
to  all  concerned  that  he  was  r  elcct''d  to  the 
same  oOice  the  succeeding  year.  In  itSoj  he 
was  elected  t"  the  I'roviiicial    Parliameiu   lor 


a  term  of  three  years,  and  in  1895  re-elected 
for  a  similar  term.  He  has  serve<I  on  various 
committees,  including  that  of  Committee  on 
Public  Accounts.  He  is  ;i  member  of  the 
Church  of  LnglaiKl.  He  married  Maria, 
daughter  of  John  I'^llegootl,  of  the  parish  of 
Dumfries,  \'ork  Count)-,  N.  15. ,  and  has  scv.ii 
childien;  namely.  Wiiliam  Jack,  iieatiice 
Maud,  Nora  Louise,  Annie  I'^Uegoovl  IMaigarct 
Neal,  George  Allan,  ami  Ruth  DeYernct. 


/  ^JlToRGi:  1).  PRJ':SCOr'r,  a  prominent 
\f^J.  young  business  man  of  Albert,  N.U., 
was  born  May  if),  1864,  al  L;!slport,  Me., 
where  his  father,  Moses  Prescott,  is  now  liv- 
ing. He  is  a  grandson  of  the  late  Jesse  Pres- 
cott, who  emigrated  fiom  Maine  to  Charlotte 
County,  New  lininswick,  in  1S15,  and  was 
thereafter  for  many  years  one  of  its  most  ic- 
sjiectcd  citizens.  l'"urthcr  facts  in  regard  to 
the  famil\  inav  be  found  on  another  page  of 
this  '.dlume,  in  connection  with  the  sketch  of 
Isaac  CMayton  Presiott,  a  cousin  of  (icorge 
D.   P.  Prescott. 

Moses  Prescott  was  bom  in  .April,  iS:!7,  in 
Penidield,  N.H. ,  and  there  accpiired  his  pre- 
Mminaiy  education,  subsequently  puisiiing 
more  advanced  studies  at  l''redericton,  \.  H. 
While  still  a  }oiing  man  be  engaged  in  the 
lundier  Inisincss  at  New  River,  N.l!.,  starting 
on  a  somewhat  limited  scab',  and  working  his 
wa\'  oinvard  to  success.  b'loiii  time  to  time 
he  has  extended  his  opeiations  and  his  [uir 
chases,  and  now  owns  \aluable  timber  land  in 
\arious  sections  of  the  Province.      Since  1876 


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lie  has  lived  i)iactic;illy  rutirod  from  active 
liusiness  pursuits,  although  he  is  still  largely 
interested  in  lumbering,  and  makes  liastport, 
Me.,  his  place  (i  residence.  A  fine  represent- 
ative of  the  self-made  men  of  our  times,  he  is 
greatly  esteemed  for  his  high  character,  up- 
riglit  i)rinci])les,  and  strict  integrity.  Not 
jjoinid  to  any  political  party,  lie  votes  the  In- 
dependent ticket.  Me  is  prominent  in  Ma- 
sonic circles  and  a  member  of  the  I'-astport 
Commandery.  He  married  Alice  Chaffee,  of 
Indian  Island,  Charlotte  County,  N.I?. ,  and 
thc\  have  two  children;  namely,  Kate  and 
(icorgc  Don  I'edro.  Kate  is  the  wife  of 
l'"r,ink  T.  Wad.'oorth,  of  Ivastiiort,  Me.,  an-I 
has  three  children — I'rescott  K.,  ]'3d\vard  T. , 
and  Roland.  Uoth  jiarents  are  members  of  the 
l';astport  ]5aptist  church. 

Cicorge  D.  I'rescott  attended  the  schools  of 
ICastiiort  and  W'aterviUc  in  Maine,  afterward 
completing  his  general  education  at  I'oiigh- 
keepsie,  N.  V.  Going  then  to  .Shlilic,  N.  .S., 
he  was  there  for  se\en  jears  engaged  in 
the  lumber  business  as  head  of  the  firm  of 
I'rescott,  Gillespie  &  Co.  in  1S9"  he  dis- 
posed of  his  interest  in  that  firm,  an<l,  having 
lenioved  to  Xew  l!runswick,  established  him- 
self as  u  lumber  manufactuier  and  dealer  in 
the  parish  of  Albert,  Albert  County,  N.  15. 
On  the  West  River  he  has  a  large  steam  saw- 
mill, in  which  he  cmplo)s  several  hands;  and 
he  is  also  the  president  of  the  I'rescott  l.uniber 
Coni[)any  at  Hen  jam  in  River,  of  which  he  was 
one  of  the  promoters.  Possessing  in  an  emi- 
nent degree  the  push,  pluck,  and  steadfastness 
of  purpose  necessary  to  insure  success,  he  has 


prospered  in  his  undertakings,  and  has  fair 
promise  of  a  satisfactory  business  career  before 
him.  A  t!on.servative  in  jiolitics,  he  was 
elected  County  Councillor  in  1.S95,  and  in 
1897  was  honored  with  a  re-election  to  the 
same  position.  He  is  a  Ma.son,  belonging  to 
the  Albert  Hlue  Lodge,  of  whicii  he  is  .Senior 
Warden,  and  is  also  a  member  of  Hotsford 
Chapter,  R.  A.  M.  He  is  also  serving  his 
fellow-townsmen  as  one  of  the  Schi-ol  Trustees. 
On  Uecember  <S,  1893,  Mr.  Present:  mc'ried 
Jessie,  daughter  of  Andrew  Mcl.ane,  of  .Stran- 
vear,  Scotland;  and  they  have  one  child, 
ICthelyn,  who  was  born  October  2,  1S94,  at 
Riverside,  N.  H.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  I'rescott  arc 
members  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Albert. 


,ATRICK  ])KV1';r,  who  died  on  Oc- 
t(jbcr  27,  1 1885,  was  well  known  in 
former  years  as  one  of  the  largest 
dry-goods  merchants  of  l-'redericton,  his  nati\e 
place.  He  was  a  son  of  Patrick  and  Mary 
(Campbell)  Dever.  llis  father  was  of  Irish 
descent,  and  his  mother  of  -Scotch. 

Patrick  Dever  comi)leted  his  education  in 
the  collegiate  school,  and  was  a  classmate  of 
Mr.  Roberts,  the  ])resent  canon  of  the  I''re(l- 
ericton  cathetlral.  After  leaving  school  he 
entered  the  employ  of  George  Patterson,  who 
was  doing  an  extensive  business  in  dry  goods. 
liy  degrees  the  dilferent  departments  of  the 
store  were  intrusted  to  his  charge,  and  finall) 
the  entire  care  fell  upon  his  shoulders,  Mr. 
Patterson  placing  absolute  confidjnce  in  his 
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iiinlcr  his  management  was  so  successful  as  to 
greatly  exceed  its  former  limits.  After  some 
years  as  manager,  upon  tlie  death  of  Mr.  Pat- 
terson he  houglit  out  the  business,  and,  taking 
liis  brother  James  in  as  ]iartner,  continued  to 
conduct  the  business  until  his  death,  the  firm 
being  Dever  brothers.  Under  the  same  name 
the  business  is  still  conducted  by  its  present 
proprietor,  James  Dever.  The  warmest  frieiui- 
shiji  always  existed  l)etween  Mr.  Dever  and 
his  former  employer.  The  latter,  living  ahuie, 
was  wont  to  depend  upon  him  in  time  of  sick- 
ness. Other  friends  were  the  late  Governor 
Hoyd,  the  lion.  Mr.  Hlair,  .Sir  John  C.  Allen. 
Great  respect  was  shown  to  Mr.  Dcver's  mem- 
ory on  the  day  of  his  funeral,  the  stores, 
offices,  and  public  jdaces  being  generally 
cIos(h1.  a  letter  of  condolence  was  received 
from  John  Boyle  O'Reilly.  D.  J.  Ilennessej', 
a  well-known  business  man  of  Hutte,  Mont., 
and  a  Representative,  learned  his  business 
with  Mr.  Dever.  In  politics  he  was  a  Liberal, 
and  he  was  offered  but  refused  a  seat  in  the 
Legislative  Council.  Though  of  a  retiring 
(lis]iosition,  he  was  nevertheless  a  le.  ler  in 
[uiblic  matters.  He  was  one  of  the  School 
Trustees  from  April  9,  1S77,  until  his  death. 
In  religious  belief  he  was  a  Roman  Catholic. 

Mr.  Devei  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Kdwartl  Seery,  a  native  of  Ireland,  who  came 
to  this  country  and  for  thirteen  years  was  a 
City  Councillor  of  l-'iedericton.  Mr.  aiul  Mrs. 
Dever  had  five  children,  sons,  namely:  James 
(deceased) ;  l'"rederick,  now  engaged  with  the 
Merchants'  iiank  of  Halifax  and  of  l-'rederic- 
ton;   Otto,    Jai.ies;    and  Joseph.      Mrs.  Dever 


has  recently  been  ajipointed  to  the  office  of 
School  Trustee,  and  is  now  serving  her  second 
term. 


LLLSON  HARLOW  CONNKLL, 
I.L.H.,*  barrister-at-law,  Wood.stock, 
N.  15. ,  is  junior  member  of  the  law 
firm  of  b'isher  &  A.  li.  Council.  He  was  born 
in  Woodstock,  .September  18,  1850,  a  son  of 
George  Connell,  and  on  both  sides  of  the  house 
is  of  honored  pioneer  stock  and  of  New  i'Jig- 
land  ancestry. 

Charles  Connell,  his  paternal  grandfather, 
was  bo'ii  in  New  Ila\en,  Conn.,  in  1777. 
When  twelve  years  old  he  came  with  his 
parents  to  New  Brunswick,  and  in  h'redericton 
served  an  apprenticeship  at  the  trade  of  a  tan- 
ner anil  shoemaker.  .Subse(|uently  locating  at 
Northampton,  N.  15. ,  he  embarked  in  the  tan- 
ning business,  and  met  with  such  eminent  suc- 
cess tiiat  at  the  time  of  bis  death  be  owned 
and  o|)erated  one  of  the  largest  taiuieries  in  the 
Province.  He  was  also  an  extensive  .■igricult- 
urist.  and  su|)erintended  the  management  of 
his  four  or  five  large  farms  himself,  emjdoying 
on  the  tamieries  and  on  the  farm  about  forty 
men.  lie  was  an  active  nieniber  of  Morning 
.Stai"  Loiige,  1'".  &  A.  M.,  of  b'redeiicton.  He 
niarrieil  Marw  daughter  of  Charles  Palmer, 
who  emigrated  from  h^igland  to  Woodstock. 
They  had  the  following  named  children:  Jere- 
miah, Henry  1'".,  Maria,  Charles,  William, 
Joseph,  George,  Lydia,  James,  John  1'".,  l'"re(l- 
erick  A.,  and  l''.li/a. 

George  Connell,  born  at  Northampton,  N.15., 
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tioii   at   Annapolis,    N.S.,    and    in   Worcester, 
Mass.      He   began    the    study    of    law    under 
A.  K.  S.  Whctmore,   of   Woodstock,   and   con- 
tinued his  studies  with  the  late  Judge  Fisher, 
„f  Fredericton.      In    1S40  he  was  admitted  as 
attorney  and  in  1S43  ^^  barrister,  and,  coming 
to  Woodstock  in   the   former  year,  commenced 
the  practice  of  his  profession,  which   he  con- 
tinued  until    1S79,    since  which   time  he  has 
lived  retired  Irom  the  activities  of  life.      For 
several  years  he  was  also   interested    in  other 
important  enterprises,  having  been  the  owner 
of  a  number  of  steamhoais  which  plied  between 
St.    John    and    iMcdericton    and    between    the 
latter  place  and  Grand  Falls.      He  is  a  member 
„f  Woodstock  Lodge,  V.  &  A.  M.      He  married 
Mary  Ann,  daughter  of   David    Fisher,  of   St. 
John,  and   a  sister  of  the  late  I-dwin  iM.sher. 
a  well-known  timber  merchant.      She  died   in 
1884,  aged   fifty-eight   years.      She  was   a  de- 
voted member  of  the  Methoilist  church,  which 
he  attends    and    supports.      Of   their   children 
three  survive,   namely:  Allison  Harlow;  Jere- 
miah Max,  of  San   Paulo,  Brazil;  and  Minnie, 
wife  of  John  Stewart,  of  Wood.stock. 

David  iMsher,  Mr.  Conncll's  maternal  grand- 
father, married  Maria  Grace  l^arlow,  daughter 
„f  Joseph  and  Martha  (Wright)  Barlow.  The 
first  band  of  Loyalists  to  settle  in  Acadia 
arrived  in  ships  at  the  mouth  of  the  St.  John 
River  on  May  iS.  17^3,  ^'"ul  landed  on  Navy 
Island.  Among  them  were  I'./.ekiel  Barlow 
and  Captain  William  Wright.  Both  had  pre- 
viously been  in  good  circumstances,  the  latter, 
especially,  having  owned  a  large  property  on 
Staten  Island,  N.V.      In  the  Barlow  household 


were   four  children:    ICzekicl;  Jesse;    Joseph; 
and  Grace,  the  wife  of  Captain  Joseph  Shelton, 
of    the    Royal    Navy.      The   children    of    the 
Wright  family  were:  F:iizabeth,  John  Watson, 
William,  and  Martha.      Living  as  near  neigh- 
bors in  their   new  homes,  a  friendship  .sprang 
up  whereby  a  happy  union  of  the  two  families 
was   effected   by   the  marriage,  about   1787,  of 
Joseph  Barlow  and  Martha  Wright,     lupially 
well    skilled    in    carpentry,    whether    finishing 
off  a  ship's  cabin  or  building  the   first   dwell- 
ing-house at  Reed's  Point,  Joseph   Barlow  by 
his  energetic  industry  maintained  a  happy  and 
comfortable  honie  until,  through  failing  health, 
death  overtook   him    when    he   was   but    forty- 
eight  years  of  age.      His  widow,  left  with  ten 
children,  lived  to  see  them  all  well   settled   in 
life,  and  at  the  age  of  eighty-eight  years,  on 
July    15,    1857,    iiassed   to   her    eternal    home. 
She  was  a  charter  member  of  the  fiist   society 
of  Methodists  formed  in   St.  John.      Her  chil- 
dren were:  William,  who  married  Mary  Mar- 
geson;     Mary,     who    married     first     Murdock 
McCauley  and  after  his  death  Angus  Campbell ; 
Maria    Grace,     who    married    David     I'isher; 
b'.lizahcth,     who    married    Tiiomas     l-'enwick ; 
Catherine,  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  William   Mur- 
ray  Wesmilh;    Th(.mas,    married    to    Isabella 
Wrightman,    Marietta   Margaret,    who  became 
the    wife    of    Henry   Whiteside;    and    Sophia, 
married  to  John  lunery  Dow. 

Allison  Barlow  Connell  received  the  rudi- 
ments of  his  education  in  the  grannnar  school 
of  Woodstock,  and  in  1872  graduated  from  liie 
University  of  New  Brunswick  with  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Arts.      Then,  after  reading  law 


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witl)  his  father  ami  witli  tlie  late  Judge  Duff, 
(if  St.  John,  he  attended  lectures  at  the  Har- 
vard Law  School,  from  which  he  received  the 
ile^^ree  of  Hachelor  of  Laws  in  1S73.  Return- 
ing inimediatel)-  to  Woodstock,  he  was  ad- 
niitteil  attorney  in  1874  and  as  barrister  in 
1875.  At  once  forming  a  partnership  with 
Lewis  P.  l'"isher,  brother  of  the  late  Judge 
l'"isher,  under  the  present  fiiin  name  of  I'"ishcr 
&  A.  1\.  Connell,  he  began  the  practice  of  the 
profession  in  which  he  has  met  with  such  sig- 
nal success.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was 
Clerk  of  the  Circuits,  and  in  1895  he  was 
created  Queen's  Counsel.  He  is  interested 
in  local  affairs,  and  has  taken  an  active  part 
on  the  Conservative  side  of  politics.  l'"rater- 
nally,  he  is  a  number  of  Woodstock  Lodge, 
I'".  &  A.  M. ,  and  of  Woodstock  Chapter, 
K.  A.  iVI.,  of  wliich  he  is  Past  I'rincipal. 

On  October  3,  1S77,  Mr.  Connell  married 
Mary  K.,  daughter  of  the  late  h".  R.  Jenkins 
Dibblee,  who  was  fm-  iiKire  than  thirty  years 
Sheriff  of  Carlcton  County.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Connell  have  three  children;  namely,  K.  Ken- 
neth, Allison  ]?cresford,  and  N'orris  Harlow. 


"I'NRV  A.  rOWKLL,*  a  leading  citi- 
^=^  zen  of  Saekville,  N.  li.,  is  one  of  the 
most  |)rominent  and  best  known 
men  III  Westmorland  County,  and  for  the  past 
ten  years  has  been  actively  identified  with  its 
public  affairs.  A  son  of  the  late  I'^dmund 
I'owell,  be  was  born  April  (1,  1855,  in  Richi- 
bucto,  Kent  Comity,  N.  li. 

J  he  founder  of  tiie  I'owell  family  in  Amer- 


ica was  one  Thomas  Powell,  who  emigrated 
from  Wales  and  settled  on  Long  Lsland,  N.  Y. , 
while  it  was  under  the  dominion  of  the  Dutch. 
Receiving  from  the  government  a  grant  of  land 
containing  about  si.\  thousand  acres,  he  e.stab- 
li.shed  his  home  on  the  island's  shore,  where 
he  continued  his  residence  until  bis  decease, 
some  time  during  the  seventcentii  century. 
He  was  a  (juaker  in  religion,  and  had  the 
Ouaker  habits  of  industry  and  thrift.  Among 
his  numerous  descendants  have  been  many  to 
attain  jirominence  in  New  York  and  in  other 
.States  of  the  Union,  as  well  as  in  the  Prov- 
inces. One  of  his  children,  Caleb  Powell, 
was  twice  married,  and  by  his  first  wife  had 
a  son  Caleb,  whose  son  Jacob  was  an  early 
settler  of  Richibucto,  N'.li. ,  and  one  of  the 
most  influential  citizens  of  his  dav.  The  sec- 
ond wife  of  Caleb  Powell,  first,  was  Mary 
Weeks,  to  whom  he  was  married  in  New  York 
prior  to  1784.  Heing  Loyalists,  they  emi- 
grated that  year  to  New  HiuiiswicU,  and  settled 
at  Crinnoss  Neck  on  the  .St.  John  River,  in 
(Jucens  County.  One  of  their  sons,  .Solomon 
Powell,  the  greatgrandfather  of  Henry  A., 
came  at  that  time  with  his  wife  anil  children 
to  this  Province,  where  he  suhse(|uently  en- 
gaged in  hunl)ering  and  fishing  until  his  death, 
when  well  ad\aiiccd  in  years.  ( )f  his  unimi 
with  a  Miss  Wright  five  children  were  horn, 
of  whom  the  yoiuigest,  Absalom  I'".,  was  the 
next  in  the  line  of  descent  now  being  con- 
sidered. 

Absalom  I'.  Powell  came  with  his  parents 
to  New  Primswick  when  a  \ery  small  child. 
On  reaching  man's  estate,  be  engaged  in  busi- 


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iioss  with  his  lirothcr,  Si)h)in()n,  Jr.,  in  Richi- 
bucto,  Kciil  County,  as  a  ship-builder,  and  was 
also  hiri,'uly  interested  in  tiic  fishery  trade, 
lie  died  when  hut  thirty-si.\  years  old;  antl 
his  brother,  Solomon,  Jr.,  was  lost  at  sea  a  few 
years  later.  Absalom  1'".  Powell  married  Ann 
1  farily,  by  whom  he  had  five  children,  of  whom 
Solomon  T.  is  the  only  one  now  living. 

lulmund  I'owell,  son  of  Alisalom  !•". ,  was 
born  in  Richibucto,  N'.U. ,  in  1808,  and  there 
s[)ent  his  entire  life  of  seventy-si.\  years. 
During  his  earlier  life  he  followed  ti)c  trade 
of  blacksmith,  at  which  he  had  served  an  ap- 
prenticeship; but  afterward  he  built  several 
.sea-going  vessels,  and  for  many  years  was  very 
successfully  engaged  in  the  coasting  trade, 
lie  ma'ried  Ann,  daughter  of  Wilfred  I""orster, 
who  was  of  iMiglisii  birth;  and  she  survives 
him,  making  her  home  in  Sackville.  I'"ive 
sr)ns  and  two  daughters  blessed  their  union, 
and  of  these  si.\  children  are  still  living, 
namely:  ]*;iizabeth,  wife  of  Dr.  I)a\  id  y\llison, 
LL.D.,  of  Sackville,  who  has  three  children 
—  lulmund  1'.,  David,  and  Harry;  William, 
who  married  Annie  Harnei;,  of  Richibucto,  and 
lias  fuiu"  children  —  Mary  I'..,  William  lul- 
numd,  IClizabelh,  and  Saiah;  Charles,  who 
married  ]'".li/,a  Wallace,  daugiiter  of  A.  (i. 
Wallace,  cjf  Dalhousie,  N.H.,  and  has  one 
ciiilil,  Allison;  Alfred,  \^'lio  married  iXgiies 
Mashaud  and  lias  four  chijtlreii  —  Margaret, 
Henry,  Herbert,  and  Lyold  C.  ;  Ilemy  A.,  the 
special  subject  of  this  brief  biograpii)';  and 
Clifford. 

Henry  .A.  I'owell  atleiuled  llie  grammar 
school  of  Richibucto   in  his  earlier  years,  antl 


in  1875  graduated  from  Mount  Allison  Uni- 
versity at  Sackville.  He  subsequently  began 
the  study  of  law  with  Chri.stopher  Milner, 
lvs(|. ,  of  .Sackville,  where  in  1880  he  began  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  and  has  since  con- 
tinued his  residence.  He  has  built  up  an  ex- 
tensive clientage,  and  is  known  far  and  wide 
as  one  of  the  foremost  lawyers  of  Westmore- 
land County.  He  takes  an  intelligent  interest 
in  everything  jiertaining  to  the  |)ublic  welfare, 
and  never  shirks  the  responsibilities  of  office. 
He  is  one  of  the  Hoard  of  Governors  of  Mount 
vMlison  University. 

A  I.iberal  Conservative  in  pcditics,  he  has 
been  the  successful  contestant  in  various  elec- 
tions. In  1890  he  was  a  canditlate  for  the 
House  of  Assembly,  when,  iiis  electi(jn  being 
contested,  the  Hon.  Judge  (then  Mr.)  Haning- 
ton  and  Amasa  K.  Killam  formed  a  coalition 
ticket,  consisting  of  two  Conservatives,  in  op- 
position to  the  Blair  government.  Mr.  I'owell 
and  II.  T.  -Sleeves,  editor  of  the  Moncton 
/>';//(.(•,  ran  as  op|)onents,  and  were  elected  by 
a  large  majority.  A  petition  ag;unst  the  elec- 
tion was  then  filed;  and  Messrs.  I'owell  and 
Steeves,  after  filling  their  seats  in  the  House 
during  one  .session,  resigned.  When  the  new 
election  to  fill  these  vacancies  was  called,  Mr. 
I'owell  was  again  elected,  but  Mr.  Steeves  was 
defeated.  In  1892,  in  the  general  election, 
Mr.  I'owell  was  again  elected  to  the  same 
position,  this  time  with  a  flattering  majority, 
being  the  second  at  the  poll;  but  his  three 
colleagues,  Judge  W.  W.  Wells,  Mr.  Milan- 
son,  and  1".  W.  .Sumner,  were  defeated.  He 
remained    in    the    local    Legislature   until    tiie 


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elevation  of  the  Hon.  Josiah  Wood,  IVI. P. ,  to 
the  Senate,  in  1895,  wlic;!  l.c  was  urged  hy  the 
Conservative  Committee  to  resif;n  liis  seat  in 
the  hieal  House  and  become  candidate  for  the 
vacancy  in  thi:  House  of  Commons.  He  ac- 
([uiesced,  and  in  Auj;ust,  1S95,  was  elected  by 
a  majority  of  ei^;ht  hundred  votes.  Durinj; 
his  first  term  in  tlie  House  of  Commons  he 
was  a  very  jirom incut  advocate  of  a  remodelled 
Lej^islature  in  ^Manitoba,  takinj^-  a  stand  upon 
that  (luestion  that  drew  down  u])on  him  the 
ojiposition  of  a  large  number  of  his  constitu- 
ents, with  the  result  that  in  the  election  of 
1.S9G  he  was  returned  to  the  House  with  a 
majority  of  fifteen  only- 

On  June  26,  1878,  ]\Ir.  Towell  married  Mary 
A.,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  George  1'.  I'ayson, 
a  Methodist  minister.  They  have  two  children 
■ —  Lena  and  Ralph. 


AMllS  VKNNKR  RUSSELL,  an  en- 
terprising boot  and  shoe  tlealer  of  .St. 
John,  was  born  in  that  city,  August  2, 
18C2,  son  (jf  John  and  Mary  (Keltie)  Russell. 
He  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schoids  of  .St.  John,  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen 
years  began  his  fust  industiial  experience  as 
clerk  for  \inccnt  &  McFate,  remaining  with 
the  firm  for  nine  months.  y\t  the  end  of  that 
time  he  removed  to  the  North  luul,  then  Port- 
land, to  take  charge  of  Mrs.  T.  A.  Vincent's 
shoe  business,  which  he  conducted  subse- 
quently for  si.xteen  years.  In  1895  he  \n\v- 
chascd  the  business,  which  he  now  carries  on, 
doing  a   thri\ing  trade.      His  store   is  one  of 


the  best   stocked,   and  his  business   is  one  of 
the  largest  in  St.  John. 

Mr.  Russell  was  married,  T'ehruary  15,  1893, 
to  Miss  Lizzie  Gray,  of  rorlJand,  daugliter  of 
William  and  iMina  (Scott)  Gray.  He  has  two 
children  —  lulith  and  Muriel.  Mr.  Russell 
is  a  prominent  member  of  the  I.  C).  O.  !■"., 
i)eing  High  Auditor  of  the  order  in  New 
Urunswick.  He  is  a  schoid  trustee  for  the  city 
of  St.  Joim. 


r^T  i:\RV  A.  WHITNKY,*  a  former 
j^H  Mayor  of  Moncton,  N.  B. ,  is  now  liv- 
^— -  ing  in  that  city,  retired  from  active 
business  pursuits.  Descended  from  sturdy  New 
ICngland  ancestors,  he  was  born  I'"ebruary  ir, 
1834,  in  .St.  Stephen,  N.  li,  a  son  of  Herick 
W.  and  Lucy  (Hall)  Whitney.  His  great- 
grandfather, Reuben  Whitney,  was  born  in 
that  jjart  of  Portland,  Me.,  tiiat  was  formerly 
called  I'"almouth,  and  there  grew  to  man's  es- 
tate. RcuJK'n  liecame  a  pioneer  settler  of 
Joncsville,  Me.,  where  he  engaged  in  farming 
and  lumbering  during  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  His  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Mary 
Weston,  bore  him  several  children,  of  whoni 
their  second  child,  Lpliraini  li. ,  was  the  grand- 
father of  Ileiuy  .\.  Whitney,  the  special  sub- 
ject of  this  sketcii. 

ICpbraim  15.  Whitney,  whose  birth  occuned 
in  17^)9,  was  the  llrst  white  child  born  in 
Joncsville,  Me.,  where  be  sjicnt  his  long  and 
busy  life,  engaged  chiefly  in  lundjering  and 
mercantile  [nirsuits.  He  died  in  1857,  at  a 
venerable  age.      He  was  for  many  years  one  of 


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the  most  i)iiiii)iiuiit  liti/.cns  ol  tliu  town,  and 
ill  1810  represented  tin.-  I'.iistern  District  of 
the  Stale  in  the  (ieneral  Court.  Hy  Ids 
wife,  Sarah,  who  was  a  daiij;hter  of  JClliaii 
Allen  Noyes,  he  had  a  family  of  thirteen 
children. 

Herick  W.  Whitney,  son  of  Miihraim  H. , 
was  horn  in  Jonesville,  IMe. ,  where  he  spent 
his  early  years.  .Soon  after  attaining;  his  ma- 
jority he  settled  in  St.  Stephen,  N.  H.,  in 
which  place  he  made  his  pcrniancnl  home,  re- 
siding there  until  his  death,  at  the  age  of 
fourscore  years.  An  energetic,  progressive 
man,  he  carried  011  for  many  years  an  exten- 
sive and  profitahle  husiness  as  a  lumher  manu- 
facturer and  dealer,  and  was  nimihercd  among 
the  influential  citizens  of  his  locality.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Conservative  and  in  his  re- 
ligious helief  a  Universalist.  His  wife,  Lucy 
Hall  Whitney,  was  a  daughter  of  William 
Hall,  who  was  a  cousin  of  the  late  Neat  Dow, 
of  I'ortland,  Me.  'I'hey  became  the  (lareiits  of 
si.\  children,  of  whom  three  are  living,  namely; 
Henry  ;\.,  whose  name  hegins  this  sketch; 
Horace,  who  married  (iaratielda  I'almer,  of 
Baring,  Me.,  and  has  si.\  children;  and  Charles 
T. ,  who  married  a  Miss  .Starkey,  of  St.  John, 
N.  H.,  and  has  si.\  children.  Mrs.  Lucy  ]\. 
Whitney  outlived  her  Inisband,  passing  away 
at  the  venerable  age  of  eighty-seven  years. 

Henry  y\.  Whitney  grew  to  manhood  in  St. 
.Stejihens,  and  obtained  a  practical  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  that  |dace.  In  1857 
he  removed  to  Monctoii,  where  he  has  since 
resided,  and,  until  his  resignation  after  a  con- 
tinuous   ser\ice   of    thirty-live  years,    was    en- 


gaged in  railroad  work.  He  was  first  con- 
nected, when  hut  eighteen  years  old,  with  the 
St.  Croi.\  &  Penobscot  Railway,  and  was  sub- 
sequently an  engineer  on  the  Luropean  & 
North  American  Railroad  for  several  years. 
During  tlie  latter  p.irt  of  the  time  he  served  as 
mechanical  superintendent  of  that  road.  In 
piditics  Mr.  Whitney  is  independent.  He  has 
always  taken  a  dee|)  interest  in  town  affairs, 
and,  besides  having  served  as  .School  TriLstec 
for  fourteen  years,  was  Mayor  of  Moiicton  in 
1X(J4.  He  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Union 
Lodge,   !•■.  &  A.  M.,  of  Portland,  Me. 

Mr.  Whitney  has  been  twice  married.  His 
first  wife,  Margaret  Lindsay  Whitney,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Alexander  Lindsay,  of  St.  John,  N.H., 
died  at  the  age  of  thirty-two  years,  leaving  one 
child,  Margaret,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  Will- 
iam Cowding,  of  Moncton,  and  has  two  chil- 
dren—  Mary  W.  and  Henrietta  L.  Mrs. 
Margaret  Whitney  was  a  Methodist  in  religion. 
Mr.  Whitney  subse(|uent]y  married  Ileiiiietta 
I'llliot,  daughter  of  John  Llliot,  of  Lngland, 
a  grandson  of  Lord  Ileathsfield.  The  second 
Mrs.  Whitney  died  when  fifty  years  old,  lea\- 
ing  two  children:  Lucy  A.,  wife  of  John  H. 
Harris,  of  Moncton,  who  has  one  child,  John 
W.  Harris;  and  Harriet  .S.  Mrs.  Henrietta 
K.  Whitney  was  a  member  of  the  v\nglican 
church. 


(s^UIIN  WALKLR,*  the  oldest  established 
merchant  tailor  in  Woodstock,  N.l!.,  is 
a   typical    re[)resentativj  of   the  thrifty 

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l)iiin  Aiij,'u.st  lo,  1S35,  ii)  Aberdeen,  Siotlaml, 
:i  son  ()[  I;inies  \\';ilker,  Jr.  His  paterniil 
grandfather,  James  Walker,  Sr. ,  a  lifelong 
resident  of  Aberdeen,  was  gardiner  for  the 
Diike  of  Athol. 

James  Walker,  Jr.,  was  born  and  e<hi(ated 
ill  Aberdeen,  Scotland,  and  there  dining'  his 
active  career  followed  the  occupation  of  a  meter 
of  ;^rain.  Of  his  marriage  with  Amanda, 
daughter  of  Andrew  Milne,  of  Aiierdeenshire, 
eleven  children  were  born,  <if  whom  seven 
grew  to  adult  life:  William;  John;  Alexan- 
der, now  deceased ;  Ann,  wife  of  William  i'or- 
ter,  of  Aberdeen;  Mar\' ;  I'lllen;  and  James, 
lioth  parents  were  faithful  members  of  the 
Presbyterian  church. 

John  Walker  received  his  early  education  in 
Aberdeen,  where  also  he  learned  the  tailor's 
trade.  In  1X65,  at  the  age  of  thirty,  he  left 
his  native  country  and  emigrated  to  .St.  John's, 
Newfoundland,  where  be  worked  at  bis  trade 
for  a  year.  Durinj;  the  f(dlowing  two  years 
be  was  employed  as  a  tailor  in  Halifax,  N.S., 
whence  lu;  proceeded  to  St.  John,  N.  H.  h'rom 
St.  Jiihn  JK'  went  to  Woodstock;  and  after 
following;  his  trade  tiiere  for  a  year  and  a  halt 
he  opened  in  1869  his  present  jilace  of  busi- 
ness, and  has  since  continued  as  a  merchant 
tailor.  He  has  a  large  and  profitable  patron- 
age in  Woodstock  and  the  \icinit\-,  and  em- 
ploys an  average  of  seven  or  eight  hands.  He 
is  a  member  of  Woodstock  Lodge,  I'.  &  A.  M., 
and  while  in  Halifa.x,  N.S.,  was  made  an  Odd 
I'"ellow.  He  belongs  to  the  I'resbyterian 
church. 

Mr.    Walker    married     Barbara     Wilson,    a 


liaughter  of  James  WiLson  and  a  native  ol 
London,  I'jigland.  Her  parents  were  Scotch; 
and  she  was  brought  up  in  Scotland,  but  at  the 
time  of  her  marriage  was  Ii\ing  in  Woodstock, 
N.  ]?.  Mr.  ami  Mrs.  Walker  have  si.\  cliildren  : 
James  Marvin,  wlio  is  employed  in  the  Hank 
of  Nova  Scotia  at  Cantwell,  N.  .S,  ;  Hans  Will- 
iam, a  resident  of  Wooilstock  ;  Barbara  (iordon  ; 
Jolin  I).  ;  Wallace;  and  Charles  (i. 


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l.nKC.K  K.  COUI.THAKl),  M.I).,  a 
\{^J_  widely-known  physician  residing  at 
Fredei  icton,  was  horn  there,  August  24,  |S.}<^, 
son  of  (ieorge  and  Maria  (Hanselpaiker) 
Coulthard. 

The  Doctor's  paternal  and  maternal  ances- 
tors came  respectively  fmm  Scotland  and  Hol- 
land. The  records  show  many  instances  of 
longevity  on  both  sides.  Ills  great-grand- 
father Coulthard,  born  at  (Iretna  Ciieen,  on 
the  borders  of  .Scotland,  in  1766,  died  in 
1S41;  and  ills  great-grandmother  Coulthard 
died  in  ( )ntario,  aged  ninety-threi'.  His 
grandfather  Coulthard  died  at  eiglily-eigbt ; 
and  his  grandmotlu'r,  a  Miss  HIack  before  mar- 
riage, lived  to  be  fourscore  years  of  age. 

Cicorge  Coulthard,  father  of  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  was  born  in  1  )umfrie-;shire,  near 
Hridekirk  S'illage,  .Scotland,  in  1S15.  When 
five  years  old,  in  June,  iSjo,  witii  liis  father 
and  grandfather  he  came  to  America,  his 
father  settling  in  York  County,  wiiich  was 
their  subsecpient  home.  His  father  and  grand- 
father had  acipiired  their  living  by  tilling  the 
soil.      He,  however,  chose  a  mercantile  career, 


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and  for  years  did  a  successful  business  in 
Frederictfiii  as  a  l)()()t  and  siiou  merchant.  He 
was  a  man  of  c|iiiet,  unassiimin;;  character,  a 
merr.Ijer  of  the  Methodist  church,  and  one  of 
those  who  assisted  in  rebuildintj  the  present 
edifice.  Mrs.  Maria  II.  Coulthard  was  of 
Dutch  descent.  Her  grandfather  Hanselpacker 
came  here  from  Albany,  N.Y. ,  in  17S3,  with 
the  Loyalists.  Her  father  married  a  l^liss 
Halmain  of  Loyalist  descent.  Mr.  Coulthard 
died  in  1888,  aged  seventy-three.  His  wife 
died  at  seventy-one  years  of  age.  They  were 
the  pii:o"ts  of  four  cliildren,  two  of  wiiom  died 
in  infancy. 

George  Iv  Coulthard  in  his  boyhood  and 
youth  attended  successively  the  Fredericton 
Grammar  School  and  the  University  of  New 
Ikunswick,  receiving  the  degree  of  bachelor 
of  Arts  from  the  latter  in  1S68.  Four  years 
after,  having  graduated  from  Harvard  Medi- 
cal School  in  1S72,  and  having  served  a  year 
in  the  lioston  City  Hospital  as  house  surgeon, 
he  was  registered  as  a  physician.  He  begari 
his  professional  jiractice  in  Fredericton  in 
1872,  I)ut  after  eighteen  months  proceeded 
to  take  a  post-graduate  course  at  lulinburgh 
(Scotland)  University;  and  on  completing  the 
same  he  resumed  Ids  practice  in  I'"iedericton, 
where  he  has  since  followed  it  continuously. 

Dr.  Coulthard  is  connected  with  the  leading 
medical  organizations  of  the  country,  Ijeing  a 
niend)er  of  llic  Hritisli  Meiliial  Association, 
the  Canadian  .Medical  Association,  the  Mari- 
time Medical  Association,  the  New  Urunswick 
Medical  As.sociation,  and  the  ^'ork  County 
Medical    Association.      He   wa.-?   presiilent    for 


two  years  of  the  Council  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  New  l^runsv.  ick,  president  of  the 
New  Brunswick  Medical  Society  in  1895,  and 
vice-president  of  the  Maritime  Medical  Asso- 
ciation for  New  Hrunswick  in  1896.  He  is  a 
trustee  of  tlie  Victoria  Hospital,  and  has  been 
on  the  Hoard  of  Surgeons  since  its  incorjiora 
tion.  l'"iir  a  year  and  a  lialf  In-  lias  been 
chairman  of  the  Fredericton  School  Hoard, 
and  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  board  .some 
eighteen  years.  He  is  secretary  of  the  I'ro- 
vincial  Hoard  of  Health  and  Chief  Health 
Officer  of  the  |)rovince.  .Since  1885  he  has 
been  a  mendjcr  of  tiie  University  of  New 
Hrunswick  Senate.  Dr.  Coulthard  is  also 
largely  connected  with  fraternal  circles,  being 
a  member  of  Hiram  Lodge,  1'.  &  A.  M.,  of 
l""re(iericton,  of  the  Indeiieiuleiit  Order  of  Odd 
I''ellows,  of  the  Royal  Arcanum,  of  tlie  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  I'oresters,  of  the  Home 
Circle,  and  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen.  Since  1875  he  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Methodist  church  and  since  1878  one  of 
its  Hoard  of  Trustees. 

Dr.  Coulthard  was  married  in  1882  to 
.Annie  C.  Hunter,  daughter  of  tiie  late  James 
Hunter,  a  mill-owner  in  .St.  Jolin.  They  have 
one  daughter,  Gertrude,  wiio  is  attending  the 
l'"redericton   Grammar   .School. 


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||^j()H1:RT  NICHOLSON,  I\I.A.,  M.D.,» 
1  popular  phjsician  and  surgeon  of 
Newcastle,  was  iiorn  in  Chatiiam, 
N.H.,  in  1865,  son  of  John  R.  and  I'dizabeth 
(Richie)  Nicholson.      His  paternal  grandfather 


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was  Robert  Nicholson,  a  native  of  Dumfries, 
Scotlaiul,  wlio  ciiiigrated  \vit]i  liis  family  to 
Halifax,  N.S.,  and  tw')  years  a^'er  his  arrival 
removed  to  Miramichi,  N.  H.,  setllin.g  in  Chat- 
ham. Robert  Nicholson  was  a  tanner  and  cur- 
rier, and  followed  that  occupation  in  Chatham 
for  many  \ears.  His  wife,  in  maidenhood 
Anna  Osborn,  was  a  native  of  Enj^land.  They 
were  the  parents  of  twelve  childien,  of  whom 
seven  <^w\v  to  maturity. 

John  R.  Nicholson  was  horn  in  Dumfries, 
Scotland,  and  came  with  his  parents  to  New 
Brunswick  when  tiuite  a  child.  He  was  reared 
in  Chatham,  and  became  an  accountant,  which 
occupation  he  followed  during  his  life.  He 
was  a  prominent  Drangeman  and  an  ardent 
supporter  of  the  temperance  cause.  His  wife, 
]'!lizabeth  Richie  Nicholson,  was  a  daughter 
of  David  Richie,  and  was  born  near  Glencoe, 
Scotlaiul.  Tiiey  were  tiie  parents  of  eigiit 
children,  of  whom  James,  a  physician,  died  at 
the  age  of  thirt)-  years,  after  liaving  practisetl 
his  ])rofession  for  some  years  at  Hathurst. 
Charles  is  a  resident  of  Malone,  N.  V.  Usborn 
resides  in  Newcastle,  N.  H.  Sarah  J.  is  the 
wife  of  (ieorge  Urown.  John  R.  Nicholson 
dieil  in  January,  1898,  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
nine  vears.  His  wife  dieil  in  June,  iS(j8,  at 
the  age  of  eighty-eight.  Tiiey  iuid  been  mar- 
ried siNty-tive  years. 

Robert  Nicholson,  tlie  direct  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  educated  in  the  [lublic  schools  of 
Newcastle  and  in  the  university  at  I'rederic- 
ton.  He  began  his  medical  studies  under  the 
direction  of  H.  A.  l"isii,  M.D.,  of  Newcastle, 
and  subsequently  attended  the  medical  depart- 


ment of  the  University  of  New  York,  at  which 
he  graduated  in  1887.  He  then  spent  a  year 
in  the  further  study  of  his  p.  )fession  in  the 
iiospitals  of  London,  luiglaiul.  Then,  relum- 
ing home,  he  began  practice  in  Newcastle 
early  in  1889,  and  has  since  remained  a  resi- 
dent of  that  place.  He  has  won  an  excellent 
reputation,  and  has  a  good  practice  that  is 
steadily  increasing.  He  is  -^,  member  of  the 
I.  O.  O.  !•. 

Dr.  Nicholson  was  married  in  1894  to  Miss 
Margaret  Russell,  a  daughter  of  M.  Russell, 
of  ^."cwcastle.      He  has  one  child,  Sarah  D. 


e)JON.  LKMUKL  J.  TWKKDIK,*  of 
Ciiatham,  I'rovincial  Secretary  of 
New  Brunswick,  is  of  Irish  extrac- 
tion, his  father  having  been  a  native  of  I.ei- 
trim  antl  his  mother  of  County  Down,  Ireland. 
He  was  born  in  Chatiiam,  N.H. ,  November  30, 
1849,  and  his  educatiori  was  obtained  in  the 
grammar  schools  and  at  I'resh  Academy. 
Making  choice  of  the  legal  jirofession,  he  was 
called  to  the  bar  in  1871  after  the  usual 
course  of  study,  and  at  once  entered  into  jirac- 
tice.  He  has  since  been  conspicuously  iden- 
titied  with  public  affairs.  He  v/as  first  elected 
to  the  House  of  Assembly  at  the  general  elec- 
tion in  1874.  l-"our  years  later  he  was  an  un- 
successful candidate  for  the  sanie  office,  but 
was  re-elected  at  the  general  elections  in  1886, 
1890,  1892,  and  1895.  He  was  sworn  a  mem- 
ber of  the  J'lxecutive  Council  and  ai)i)ointed 
ourveyor-general    on    February  3,    1890.     On 


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the  rcorgani/.atidii  of  the  -ovcrnmcnt  in  July, 
1896,  he  became  Provincial  Secretary.  In 
his  political  opinions  he  is  a  Liberal  Conser- 
vative. 

Mr.  Tweeiiie  was  manietl  December  6,  1876, 
to  Agnes,  daughter  of  the  late  Alexander 
Louden,  l'"sc|. 


IIOMAS     \VALK]':R,      M.D.,    a     well- 
<no\vn  and  respected   jihysician  of    St. 
John,    N.  B. ,    was    born    in    Hampton,    Kings 
County,  in  this  Province,  on  March  20,  1840,  the 
fourth    child    of   the    Rev.  William  Williams 
Walker  and  his  wife,  Ann  Woodward  Walker. 
The  first  of   Dr.  Walker's   family  in  America 
was  his  great-grandfather,  'I'liomas  Walker,  who 
came  from  Cumberland,  in  tiie  north  of  l^ig- 
land,  to  Hoston,  Mass.,  in  Colonial  days,  as  an 
officer  in   His  Majesty's  service,  and  was  later 
transferred     to    Annapolis,     where    he    died. 
Thomas  Walker,  first,  was  a  descendant  on  the 
paternal  side  from  Llizabeth  "^'ates,  a  sister  of 
the   famous    Penderell    brothers,  who  were    in- 
strumental in  saving  King  Charles  II.  after  the 
fatal  battle  (;f  Worcester. 

Captain  Thmnas  Walker,  son  of  the  above- 
named  Thomas  and  grandfather  of  the  Doctor, 
was  born  on  Sei)tend)er  10,  1763,  and  was 
brought  ui)  and  educated  in  Annap(dis.  On  tlie 
breaking  out  of  the  American  Revolution  he 
went  as  a  cadet  in  a  regiment  commanded  by 
Lieutenant  Colonel  George  Turnbull,  and  on 
August  10,  1780,  was  comnii.ssioned  Lieuten- 
ant of  a  company.  At  one  time  he  was  capt- 
ured;   but    he   .soon   after   escaped,  and  at    the 


close  of  the  war  returned  to  Annapolis  as  Cap- 
tain   of   his   company.      He  subsequently   en- 
gaged in  mercantile  and  ship-building  business, 
which   he   followed   until  his  death.      He  was 
first   married   on    August    11,  1791,   to   Phoebe 
Walker,    who   died    in    1794,    having   had   one 
child   that    died    in    infancy.      He    was   again 
married    on    December    13,     1795,    to    Phoebe 
Millidge,    by    whom    he    had    seven    children. 
The  following  is  a  brief  record  oi  this  family  : 
Margaret,  the  eldest,  was  married  first  to  John 
Newton,  second  to  Richard  Simonds,  and  died 
at    the    age    of    seventy-five    years.      Thomas 
Millidge,  che  second  child,  born   in    1798,  be- 
came   the    master    of    a    ijrigantine,    and    was 
drowned  at  sea  in  1834.      Ann   Penn,  who  was 
born    in    1800,    married    (ieorge    Grassie    and 
lived  to  be  over  eighty   years  old.      William 
Williams,  above  named,  was  born  in  1802,  and 
died  in    1889.      Phoibe  was  born   in   1805,  and 
died   in  1891.      Mary,  who  was   born   in    1806, 
married    Edward   il.   Cutler,    High   Sheriff   of 
Annapolis.      IClizal)eth,  who  was  born  in  1809, 
married  1' rancis  W.  Pickman.     Captain  Thomas 
Walker  died    in    181  i,    and   his   wife   died    in 
1846.      He  belonged  to  the  Masonic  fraternity, 
and  he  and  his  family  were   members   of   the 
Church  of  ICngland. 

The  Rev.  William  Williams  Walker  passed 
his  early  youth  in  Annapolis.  H  is  eilucation 
was  obtained  in  the  grammar  school  at  that  place 
and  at  King's  College,  Windsor,  N.  S.  He  was 
ordained  by  the  late  Bishop  John  Inglis,  and 
was  first  employed  for  a  short  time  as  curate 
at  Cornwall  is.  He  then  went  to  Charlotte- 
town,  from  there  to  St.  KUinors,  and   in    1830 


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took  charge  of  tlic  parish  at  Hampton,  Kings 
County,  N.  ]?. ,  of  which  he  was  sul)scqucntly 
rector  for  a  jicriodof  fifty-three  years.  He  was 
married  in  1S34  to  Ann,  daugliter  of  Jesse 
Woodward,  a  (juaker,  who  came  from  New  Jer- 
sey to  Halifax,  and  then  removed  to  St.  John. 
Mr.  Woodward  carried  on  mercantile  business, 
and  had  several  sons  who  were  extensively  en- 
gaged in  the  African  trade.  The  Rev.  Will- 
iam Williams  Walker  and  his  wife  were  the 
])arents  of  ten  children.  Of  these  the  eldest 
died  in  infancy.  Margaret,  who  was  born  in 
1838,  married  John  A.  Wright,  and  is  now 
living  in  Newton,  Mass.  William,  who  was 
born  in  1842,  married  Marion  McLaughlin, 
and  now  resides  in  Canton,  .Mass.  George, 
who  was  Lorn  in  1S44,  married  Margaret  Tay- 
lor, and  is  also  a  resilient  of  Canton,  Mass. 
Mary  Ann,  who  was  horn  in  1846,  is  the 
widow  of  I'"ranklin  L.  l^ush  and  a  resident  of 
Raleigh,  N.C.  Ivlizabeth  is  a  Deaconess  of  St. 
John's  Church  at  Stamford,  Conn.  ]\Iillidge 
Walker,  who  was  born  in  1851,  married  Jessi(; 
Inches,  and  is  a  resident  of  Cheshire,  Conn. 
The  Rev.  William  W.  Walker  died  on  May 
17,  1889.  His  wife  died  in  1881,  at  the  age 
of  seventy-two  years. 

Dr.  Thomas  Walker  at  the  age  of  twelve 
years  entered  the  Kings  County  (irammar 
School,  and  in  1856  matriculatt'd  at  <ild  King's 
College  at  l''rcdericton.  l'"rom  the  latter  he 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts 
in  1859;  and  in  the  fall  of  that  year  he  went 
to  Scotland,  where  he  began  the  study  of 
medicine  at  the  University  of  Edinburgh.  In 
August,  1863,  he  received  his  doctor's  ilegrce, 


and  in  the  same  year  obtained  the  license  of 
the  Royal  College  of  Surgeons.  Returning  to 
St.  John  in  the  fall  of  1863,  he  began  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession,  and  has  since  continued 
it  with  marked  success.  He  has  served  as  sur- 
geon of  the  general  jniblic  hospital,  and  is 
now  one  of  the  commissioners  appointed  by  the 
Common  Council.  He  is  Surgeon  Major  to 
the  .Sixty-second  Battalion  and  a  director  of 
the  Agricultural  Society.  In  1871  he  was 
made  a  Mason  of  Albion  Lodge,  and  has  since 
passed  through  all  the  chairs.  In  1877  and 
1878  and  again  in  1S96  and  1897  he  was  Mas- 
ter of  the  lodge.  He  is  a  V.  H.  and  P.  J. 
of  Carleton  Chajiter,  R.  A.  M. ,  and  for  four 
years  was  Commaniler  of  the  luicampment  of  St. 
John,  K.  T.  ;  also  a  member  of  St.  John  Lodge 
of  Perfection,  Royal  Order  of  Scotland;  was 
elected  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
in  1889,  and  thus  served  till  1895,  and  was 
again  elected  to  that  office  in  1897.  lie  is  an 
honorary  member  of  Ldinburgh  Lodge,  No.  1, 
of  Scotland,  and  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  New  Brunswick  Lodge. 
Dr.  Walker  has  served  as  president  of  the  St. 
John  Medical  Society,  president  of  the  New 
Brunswick  Medical  Society,  and  president  of 
the  Council  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of 
New  Brun.swick,  of  which  last  he  is  at  the 
present  time  treasurer. 

Dr.  Walker  was  married  in  July,  i8(16,  to 
Mary  R.,  eldest  daughter  of  the  late  William 
Jack,  0.  C,  formerly  Advocate  General  of  New 
Hrunswick,  of  whom  mention  is  made  on  another 
page  of  this  work.  To  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Walker 
have  been  born  eiybt  childien,  as  follows:  in 


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1867,  Thomas  Dyson;  in  1869,  Mary  Helen; 
ill  1S70,  Alice  Kcble;  in  1872,  William  War- 
burton,  who  died  in  infancy;  in  1873,  Francis 
Cox;  in  1875,  Jessie  C.  ;  in  1878,  William 
d'Acre;  and  in  1881,  Edwaid  lilake.  Thomas 
Dyson  Walker  is  a  rising  and  popular  physician 
of  St.  John.  Mary  Helen  is  the  wife  of 
.Samuel  Crane  Lord,  of  I'eabody,  Mass.  ;  and 
JMiuicis  is  a  teacher  of  classics  in  Upper 
Canada  College,   Toronto. 


|KV.  EDWARDS.  MURDOCK,*  priest 
in  charge  of  the  Catholic  church  at 
Renous  Bridge,  Northumberland 
County,  is  a  native  of  New  Brunswick,  being 
a  son  of  Alexander  and  Susanna  (Hergin) 
Murdock  and  a  descendant  in  the  fourth  gener- 
ation of  George  Murdock,  the  first  progenitor 
of  the  family  in  this  I'rovince.  Ceorge  Mur- 
dock was  a  haberdasher,  or  dealer  in  small  dry 
goods,  in  his  native  country,  Scotland.  Con- 
ceiving the  idea  of  establishing  a  trade  be- 
tween Scotland  and  New  Brunswick  in  prod- 
ucts supplied  ]5y  the  Indians,  such  as  furs,  cotl, 
haddock,  and  salmon,  in  1770,  with  iiis  wife, 
two  sons,  and  a  son-in-law,  John  Malcom,  be 
came  to  America,  locating  first  on  I'rince  ]'"d- 
ward  Island.  In  1774  they  removed  to  New 
Brunswick,  .settling  on  the  Miramichi,  at  a 
phice  since  known  as  Murdock's  Point,  and 
opposite  Bortibnge,  tlie  present  residence  of 
the  Rev.  b'atber  INIorrisey.  The  Indians,  being 
hostile  to  the  luiglish  settlers  on  account  of 
tiiiubles  arising  out  of  the  JMench  and  Indian 
War,  shortl)  after  his  arrival  here  made  a  raid 


on  his  homestead,  burning  his  dwelling  and 
other  buildings  and  destroying  or  carrying 
away  his  stock  of  goods.  This  so  discouraged 
iiim  that  he  gave  up  his  original  intention  and 
devoted  his  energies  to  lumbering,  farming, 
and  fishing,  which  occupations  lie  followed 
until   his  death   in    1794. 

John  Murdock  was  nine  years  old  when  he 
accompanied  his  parents  to  this  country.  In 
early  youth  he  assisted  his  father  in  llie  latter's 
trading  operations  before  the  Indian  raid,  and 
subsequently  became  associated  witii  him  in 
his  lumber,  farming,  and  fishing  enterprises. 
Togetlier  they  owned  the  land  from  river  to 
ri\er,  ajjout  two  and  a  liaif  square  miles,  hav- 
ing received  a  grant  of  it  from  King  (leorge. 
John,  who  resitled  on  the  homestead,  married 
a  Miss  Gilchrist.  He  died  in  1825,  at  the 
age  of  sixty  years,  bis  wife  surviving  iiini. 
Their  children  ^vere  seven  in  number  —  James, 
Mary,  I'^lizabeth,  George,  John,  Alexander, 
and  William.  Of  these  the  last  named  died 
young.  James  settled  near  the  parental  home- 
stead on  a  portion  of  the  grant,  and  followed 
farming  and  lumbering  and  lattcily  fisiiiug. 
He  married  a  Miss  Taylor,  ami  died  at  the 
age  of  eighty  years.  Mary  became  the  wife  of 
Philip  Savoy,  whose  heirs  still  reside  on 
a  portion  of  the  Murdock  grant,  l^lizabetb 
married  Philip  Murjiliy,  a  thrifty  farmer  and 
a  native  of  Prince  Edward  Island,  who  is  still 
living.  .She  died  at  the  age  of  nearly  eighty 
years.  George  married  first  a  Miss  Taylor, 
who  bore  him  two  children;  and  after  her 
(lealh  he  married  for  his  .second  wife  a  Miss 
McMillan,    by   whom  he   had   a    large   family. 


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ried and  settled  on  the  homestead,  also  died  at 
the  a{{0  "f  fifty. 

Alexander  Murclock,  who  was  born  in  1S19, 
received  his  elementary  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  day  and  at  a  private  boarding- 
school.  When  his  studies  were  over  he  joined 
his  lirothers  in  fisiiinj^and  lumberinf^.  In  1845 
he  married  Miss  Susanna  Herein,  a  daughter 
of  John  15ergin,  who  came  to  New  Brunswick 
ficim  (Jueen's  County,  Ireland,  in  iSio.  She 
was  born  in  1S25.  After  his  marriage  Ale.x- 
ander  settled  on  a  tract  of  unimproxed  land,  of 
which  in  due  time,  by  aiiplication  and  perse- 
verance, he  made  a  good  farm,  (iiving  his 
attention  to  agriculture  and  fishing,  he  became 
cpute  prosperous,  and  accumulated  a  good  proj)- 
erty.  lie  and  his  wife  were  the  parents  of 
twelve  children,  of  whom  si.\  arc  now  living, 
five  sons  and  one  daughter.  Tlie  following  is 
a  brief  record  of  them  :  Joim,  who  has  followed 
the  vocation  of  his  ancestors  in  the  vicinity  of 
the  old  Jiomestead,  married  first  a  Miss  Wall, 
by  whom  he  had  several  chiklren;  and  after  her 
death  he  married  for  his  second  wife  Miss  Mary 
Gaynor,  of  whicii  union  there  is  one  child. 
Margaret  Isabella  is  the  wife  of  I'hineas  ilar- 
riman  and  the  mother  of  si.\  children  —  Susan, 
Anne  H. ,  Aloysius,  Alexander,  h'rederick,  and 
Caroline.  Alexander,  who  resides  on  a  jiortion 
of  the  old  homestead,  married  a  Miss  Caynor, 
and  his  children  are:  Caroline,  Hertha,  Gene- 
vieve, and  b'rederick.  George,  wiio  owns  a 
part  of  the  liomestead,  resides  at  JJlack  Urook. 
He  is  a  contractor  and  builder  by  occupation. 
He  married  a  daughter  of  James   I'itzpatrick, 


and  lias  three  children.  Robert  A.,  who  was 
born  in  1857,  resides  in  Chatham,  where  he 
carries  on  business  as  a  merchant.  A  separate 
sketch  of  him  is  iiublislied  on  another  page  of 
this  volume.  Caroline,  who  was  a  nun  in  a 
convent,  died  in  1S.S5,  at  tiie  age  of  twenty- 
five  years.  William  was  educated  in  St. 
Michael's  College  at  Chatham,  and  taught 
school  for  some  years  in  Montreal ;  but,  his 
health  failing,  he  returned  home  and  died  on 
A|)ril  2,  i.S'74>  ''t  the  age  of  twenty-two  years, 
lulward  S.  is  tiie  priest  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
church,  whose  name  appears  at  the  heail  of 
this  sketch.     James  died  on  June  27,  1896. 

Mrs.  Susanna  B.  Murdock,  the  mother  of 
these  children,  is  still  living,  and  enjovs  a  re- 
markable degree  of  mental  and  i)h\sical  vigor. 


KORGK  KDWIN  FAIRWKATHKR, 
barrister-at-law  and  insurance  and 
real  estate  agent  of  .St.  John,  N.H.,  was  born 
in  1833,  son  of  Josejih  and  Jane  (Whittaker) 
Fairweather.  He  is  a  descendant  in  the 
fourth  generation  of  Thomas  l'"airweathcr,  who 
removed  from  Connecticut  to  Long  Island, 
N.Y.,  and  thence,  in  1783,  with  other  Loyal- 
ists, to  New  Brunswick. 

Thomas  Fairweather  settled  in  Norton,  then 
known  as  Yankee  .Shore.  There  he  followed 
farming  on  the  Kennebaccasis  River.  He  was 
three  times  married:  first,  to  a  Miss  Ray- 
mond, by  whom  he  had  one  son,  William  by 
name,  who  married  Nancy  Dunham;  second, 
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chiUlren  —  Thomas,  Henry,  Hannah,  Sarah, 
S.imucl,  lulwin,  Fanny,  Deborah,  Cliarles, 
and  James. 

'I'lie  second  Thomas,  j^randfather  of  George 
I'^dwin  Fairweather,  was  six  years  ohl  when 
he  came  with  his  fatlier's  family  to  New 
Brunswick.  Ho  was  a  life-long  farmer.  His 
wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Lydia  Dixon, 
bore  him  nine  children,  as  follows:  Joseph, 
father  of  George  K.  Fairweather;  Susan,  who 
married  Charles  De  Forest;  Julia  Elizabeth, 
who  died  unmarrioil;  Nancy,  who  married 
Israel  Iloyt  Foster;  Deborah,  who  died  un- 
married ;  Thomas,  who  married  Iktsey  Ket- 
chum;  Samuel;  lulwin,  who  married  Isabella 
l""airweather;  and  Angeline,  who  married 
(].  F.  VVhelpley. 

Joseph  Fairweather,  son  of  Thomas  and 
Lydia,  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm,  but 
upon  attaining  his  majority  he  came  to  St. 
John  and  engaged  in  the  lumber  and  West 
India  trade,  which  he  followed  successfully 
for  many  years.  lie  served  as  magistrate, 
and  for  nineteen  years  was  a  member  of  the 
Common  Council.  1 1  is  wife,  Jane,  bore  him 
the  following-named  chikheii:  Julia  Klizabcth, 
who  married  Henry  F.  I'erley,  C.  F. ;  George 
Fdwin;  Thomas  Wellington,  now  deceased; 
I.ydia  Jane,  who  married  Charles  Walker, 
C.lv,  both  of  whom  are  dead;  Arthur  Clar- 
ence; Joseph  Sydney,  ileceased,  who  married 
Hetty  Lewis;  Louisa  Adelaide;  ICdmuud 
Walker  Head;  Susan  ICmma;  and  Henry 
llel)ert.  Joseph  Fairweather  died  in  1876,  and 
his  wife  died  in  IcSqi. 

George  Edwin    Fairweather's  early  life  was 


spent  in  trade.  In  18C1  he  was  ajiiiointed 
Deputy  Common  Clerk,  and  for  tiie  thirteen 
succeeding  years  held  this  jwsition  with 
credit.  He  also  studied  law,  was  admitted  as 
a  barrister  in  1875,  and  since  that  time  he  has 
given  his  attention  largely  to  his  profession. 
In  connection  with  his  law  practice,  however, 
he  is  extensively  engaged  in  the  insurance  busi- 
ness ami  in  real  estate  jperations.  Among 
the  insurance  companies  he  represents  may  be 
named  the  following:  the  London  and  Lan- 
cashire of  Liveri)ool,  the  Ailna  of  Hartford 
and  the  llartforil  Fire  Insurance  Company. 
He  is  also  geni-ra!  ajjent  for  the  Canada  Life 
Insurance  Company. 

Mr.  Fairweather  was  married  in  i860  to 
Emma,  daughter  of  the  late  Richard  Titus,  a 
prominent  shii)-builder  of  St.  John.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Fairweather  are  the  parents  of  five  chil- 
dren, namely:  lulgar  Hamilton;  Mary  Annie, 
now  deceased;  Walter  Cardwell,  deceased; 
Carrie;  and  Grace  Lang.  The  first-named  of 
these,  who  is  in  business  with  his  father,  mar- 
ried Grace  Caldwell,  and  ii.is  a  family  of  four 
children  —  Edith  Douglas,  George  lulwin, 
lulgar  Darrell,  and  Harold  Bryant. 

George  Edwin  Fairweather  publisiied,  in 
1895,  a  book  of  original  poems,  entitled  "  I'he 
Stone  Cluueh  Hell,"  in  memory  of  his  son, 
Walter  Cardwell,  who  died  November  17,  1894. 


ILFRED  T.  JONES,*  a  skilful  and 
enterprising  farmer  of  boundary 
Creek,  Westmoreland  County,  N.  15. ,  was  born 
December  18,   18C1,  in  the  parish  of  Moncton, 


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a  son  of  the  late  Abel  Junes.  His  ;;raiul- 
father,  Solomon  Jones,  was  also  born  in  Moiu- 
ton,  X.U.,  and  diirin},'  his  active  life  of 
sc\enty-thiee  years  was  enj^ajjed  in  tilling  the 
soil,  his  homestead  farm  beinj;  one  of  the  best 
on  Steeves  Mountain.  Solomon  Jones  married 
Marj^aret  I.utz,  who  attained  the  venerable  aj^e 
of  ei;;hty-foin-  years,  liotli  were  valued  mem- 
bers of  the  Haptist  church,  t)f  which  he  was 
for  many  years  a  Deacon.  They  had  a  large 
family  of  children,  of  whom  eleven  j;rew  to 
adult  life  and  si.\  are  ) et  livintf,  as  follows: 
Matilda,  Rosanna,  Clinton,  Kate,  Maria,  and 
Solomon. 

Abel  Jones,  second  child  of  Solomon  and 
Margaret,  was  born  on  the  old  iiomestead  on 
Steeves  Mountain,  where  he  lived  until  twenty- 
three  years  old.  Locating  then  at  Houndary 
Creek,  he  purchased  the  lanil  now  owned  and 
occupied  by  his  son,  Wilfred  T. ,  and  by  dint 
of  persevering  toil,  wise  management,  and 
thrift  succeeded  in  clearing  and  improving  a 
comfortaljle  homestead  farm,  which  be  man- 
aged until  his  death,  at  the  age  of  sixty-three 
years.  He  married  Catherine,  daughter  of 
Kphraim  Steeves,  of  Moncton ;  and  she  sm- 
vived  him,  and  is  still  living  on  the  home 
farm  with  her  son.  She  belongs  to  the  Haji- 
tist  chinch,  of  which  her  husband  was  an 
active  mendier  and  for  a  number  of  years  a 
Deacon.  Siie  has  seven  children  living; 
namely,  I.eander,  Calvin,  Wilfred  T.,  Lphraim, 
Dora,  Cecil,  and  lifTie. 

Wilfred  T.  Jones  obtained  a  practical  edu- 
cation in  the  common  schools  of  Moncton,  and 
since  the  death  of  his  father  has  had  the  entire 


care  of  the  homestead  |>roiierty.  lie  has  one 
hundred  acres  of  land,  much  of  which  is  in 
a  gootl  state  of  cultivation,  and  is  carrying  on 
general  farming  with  very  satisfactory  results. 
On  March  iS,  iSiX",  Mr.  Jones  married 
Clara  I..,  daughter  of  William  Stee\es,  of 
Salisbury,  N.  H.,  and  they  have  (jue  child, 
(Gordon  W. ,  born  in  March,  1S97.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Jones  are  members  of  the  Salisbury  Hap- 
tist church. 


T^HARLKS  L.  CARTI':R,*  an  active  and 
I  J|        able  busines-   r,'in   of   Hopewell  Cape, 

^ — "  Albert  County,  N.H. ,  was  born  in 
that  town,  January  26,  iiS/o,  a  son  of  Captain 
Iknjamin  T.  Carter.  He  is  of  substantial 
I'jiglish  stock,  his  great-grandfather,  Thomas 
Carter,  having  been  horn  and  bred  in  York- 
shire, England.  When  a  young  man  Thomas 
Carter  emigrated  to  Canada,  and,  locating  at 
Dorchester,  N.ll,  there  married  a  Miss  Sid- 
dall,  who  bore  him  a  large  family  of  children, 
of  whom  Christopher,  grandfather  of  Charles 
I,.,  was  the  seventh  son. 

Christopher  Carter  was  Ixnii  in  Dorchester, 
N.H.,  and  there  jiassed  his  life,  which  ex- 
tended to  the  scriptural  limit  of  threescore 
years  and  ten.  Learning  the  mason's  trade 
when  young,  he  followed  that  occupation  for 
many  years,  and  assisted  in  building  many 
houses  in  that  vicinity.  He  married  Barbara 
McKenzie,  who  survived  him  a  brief  time, 
dying  at  the  age  of  seventy-four  years.  In  re- 
ligion they  were  strict  Methodists.  They  be- 
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aiul  four  (laii{;litoiH,  ol  wlmni  aic  now  living: 
Captain  Hcnjaniin  'J'.;  Duncan,  wim  inaiiicil 
Jam-  I'alint'r,  (if  Dorchester;  Jane,  wife  of 
Alexander  Taite,  of  Moiicton,  N,  H.  ;  Ilattie, 
wife  of  Ainsley  Keiver,  of  Moncton. 

Captain  Henjamin  'I',  Carter  was  born  July  19, 
1S44,  in  Dorchester,  N.  It.  ;  and  the  days  of 
his  bojhood  and  youth  were  passed  in  that 
town.  'n  1X62  he  went  to  sea  as  cook  on 
hoard  a  coasting-vessel,  and  within  a  few  years 
had  workeil  his  way  through  the  different 
grades  to  the  position  of  master  of  tiie  craft  in 
which  he  sailed.  In  this  capacity  he  made 
many  voyages  to  foreign  ports,  and  after  a 
successful  seafaring  life  of  more  than  three 
decades  retired  in  1S1J4  to  his  old  home  at 
Hopewell  Caiie,  where  he  is  now  enjoying  a 
well-earned  leisure.  He  married  for  his  first 
wife  Julia,  daughter  of  J.  ICdward  Di.xon,  of 
Hoiiewell  Cajie.  She  died  when  hut  twenty 
years  old,  leaving  one  son,  Charles  I,.  Cap- 
tain Carter  subse((uently  married  Althea  M., 
daughter  of  Nathan  M.  Bennett,  also  of  Hope- 
well Cape.  Of  this  union  there  are  no  chil- 
dren. In  politics  the  Captain  is  independent, 
voting  according  to  his  sincere  convictions,  re- 
gardless of  party  ties.  In  November,  1897, 
he  was  elected  as  a  Councillor  of  Albert 
County,  and  he  is  serving  also  as  one  of  tlie 
School  Trustees. 

Charles  L.  Carter  obtained  the  rudiments  of 
his  education  in  the  schools  of  his  native  town, 
after  which  he  took  a  course  at  the  St.  John 
Commercial  College,  St.  John,  N.ll  The  en- 
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dealers  at  Moncton;  and  he  then  resigned  his 
position  to  try  seafaring  life.  .Shipping  be- 
fore the  mast,  he  sailed  for  Australia  and  the 
l''ast  Indies,  and  had  a  long  and  satisfactory 
trip  going  anil  returning.  On  his  second  out- 
ward voyage  he  was  made  third  nuite  of  the 
vessel,  and  during  the  trip  iiome  was  raised  to 
the  rank  of  mate.  A  short  time  later  he  re- 
ceived his  master's  pajiers ;  but,  insteail  of 
taking  charge  of  the  ship,  he  deiided  to  stay 
asiuire  and  establish  himself  in  business. 
Accordingly,  in  1896,  he  opened  his  present 
store  at  Hopewell  Cape,  with  an  excellent 
stock  of  general  merchanilise,  and  has  since 
carried  on  a  thriving  trade.  In  the  same  year 
he  was  appointed  Postmaster,  an  oriicc  whiiii 
he  is  filling  most  acceptably. 

On  April  4,  1S95,  Mr.  Carter  married  Net- 
tie, daughter  of  Jolin  W.  Sulis,  of  St.  John, 
N.  H.  ;  and  they  have  one  chilil,  Winifred  St. 
John,  born  December  29,  1896.  Mr.,  and  Mrs. 
Carter  are  members  of  the  Haptist  church  at 
St.  John,  N.H. ,  and  Mr.  Carter  is  a  member 
of  Demoiselle  Court,  No.  1546,  I.  O.  l-".,  of 
Hopewell  Cape. 


§AMI':S  JOSIvI'II  KAVI-:,  for  many  years 
an  eminent  lawyer  of  the  I'rovince  of 
New  Hrunswick,  was  born  in  Surrey, 
Mngland,  on  July  23,  1.S14,  secontl  son  of 
James  and  Sarah  (Cox)  Kaye.  He  came  to 
Canada  in  early  manhood,  and  jnusucd  his  law 
studies  with  tiie  late  .Moses  II.  I'crley.  On 
the  4th  of  l"'ebruary,  1841,  he  was  admitted 
attorney,  and    in    1843   was  called  to  the  bar. 


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He  received  the  rank  of  Queen's  Counsel  from 
tliu  I'rovincir.l  i;()vcrnnient  in  1S73,  and  in  tlie 
same  year  also  from  the  Dominion  govcrnme'it. 
Mr.  Kaye's  deatli  occurred  on  June  ig,  \^i)2. 
The  following-  estimate  of  his  ]ej;al  character, 
as  furnished  by  Mr.  Justice  barker,  is  perhaps 
as  disci  niinaiinji  and  as  valuable  as  -mythinf; 
that  has  been  written  concerning;  him.  Juilge 
B  <  -ker  says :  — 

'As  a  lawyer  Mr.  Kayc  was  always  a  great 
worker,  lie  never 'gambled  '  with  his  cases, 
he  took  no  ri.sks  whicli  it  was  ]v)ssible  to  avoid, 
and  he  provitled  for  contingencies  to  which 
other  practitioners  would  liave  given  no  heed, 
so  inilikely  were  they  to  occur.  His  knowl- 
edge of  law  and  legal  principles  was  most  ex- 
treme. He  read  or  had  reail  to  him  all  the 
legal  literature  of  the  day;  and  he  became 
easily  the  leading  eipiity  lawyer  of  liis  time  in 
New  Urunswick,  and  pri)l)ai)]y  in  the  Maritime 
Provinces.  He,  however,  rai-ely  took  part  in 
the  trial  of  a  cause,  and  never  went  on  cir- 
cuit. And,  alliiougli  he  rather  avoided  even 
arguing  ca'^cs  befoie  the  court,  when  lie  did 
his  statements  weie  always  lucid,  his  reasons 
were  generally  sound,  his  arguments  always 
logical,  and  his  manner  always  earnest  and 
c<uivincing.  The  lay  listener  was  charmed, 
and  the  nrnfcssioiial  one  instiucted.  Tiie  op- 
p(m>'nt  alone  fell  uncomfortable. 

"Mr.  Kaye's  most  appropriate  position  for 
judicial  work  was  in  a  court  of  appeal.  'I'Mrst 
inipressiiins '  and  off  hand  opini(His  are  as  un- 
necessary there  as  tbe\-  are  out  of  place. 
There  is  no  obstacle  in  the  way  of  the  niosl 
deliberate  action  in  a  court  of  last  resort;  and 


there  have  been  few  lawyers  in  the  Province 
better  etiuipjied  than  was  Mr.  Kaye  for  a  final 
determination  of  those  varied  questions  which 
result  in  litigation,  or  whose  judgment  upon 
them  under  such  condiliims  wonhl  have  been 
more  readily  accepte<l.  " 

The  following  sketch  of  Mr.  Kaye,  which 
formed  part  of  one  of  the  many  obituary  notices 
tliat  appeared  shortly  after  his  decease,  was 
written  by  one  of  his  former  students,  and  well 
illustrates  the  strong  influence  he  exeiti'd  in 
intimate,  daily  intercourse:    - 

"He  took  nothing  for  granted,  and  left  noth- 
ing to  ciiance.  There  was  no  guess  work.  A 
title  of  property  examined  by  him  could  never 
be  defeated,  and  those  who  were  his  studer.ts 
and  remember  the  rigid  exactness  w^ith  which 
the  records  were  searched  can  understand  why 
this  should  be  so. 

"In  the  same  w  .y  a  man  whose  will  was 
drawn  by  him  couUl  die  in  perfect  peace  so  far 
as  the  affairs  of  earth  were  concerned.  Mr. 
Kaye  was  scrupulously,  perhajis  unnecessarily, 
exact  in  tiie  smallest  details  of  whatever  he 
undertook  to  do.  He  always  saw  tiie  possi- 
bilit)'  of  trouble,  and  amply  |)iovideii  for  it. 

"W'iien  in  inirtnersbip  with  the  late  Hon. 
John  H.  (iray,  wiio  died  a  judge  in  Hiitish 
Columbia,  an  enormous  piactii'c  was  done. 
Tiie  partneis  were  so  (ipp.osite  to  eacii  otiier  in 
tiieir  characteristii  s  that  the  combination  was 
an  admirable  one.  Tiie  lii  ni  had  a  high  repu- 
tation on  both  sides  of  tiie  ocean.  The  I'.ng- 
lish  clientage  embraced  tiie  leading  limises  of 
(ireat  Hritain  which  hail  any  bu,  iness  with  this 
part  of  the  world.      .So,  too,  the   local   practice 


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was  largo;  ,;iul  tlicic  wltc  Ilw  ot  the  groat 
law  'its  in  wiiioli  Gray  &  Ka)o  woro  not 
rotainod.  " 

Mr.  Kayo  niarriotl  Ann  I'lli/aboth  IVinsall, 
daiightor  of  (icorge  l?onsall.  llor  fathor  was 
a  siiccossl'ul  nioic'liant  ot  St.  John,  anil  lor 
son'"  tinio  a  mombor  of  tho  Common  Council 
for  Diikos  Ward.  He  was  tho  son  of  Richard 
Honsall,  and  grandson  of  Goorgo  and  Mary 
(Hoardmore)  Honsall,  of  llcton,  Staffordshire, 
I'jigland.  Richard  ISonsall,  who  was  horn  at 
Old  Melon,  in  Staffordshire,  luigland,  in  1732, 
studied  modiciiio  in  early  life,  but  subso- 
([uently  joined  his  brother.  Sir  Thomas  lion- 
salj,  owner  of  extensive  load-mines  in  Aborys- 
twith,  Wales,  and  was  mining  engineer  there. 
In  iyC)t),  however,  he  loft  Wales  for  America, 
landing  in  riiiladolpbia ;  and  still  later  he  re- 
sitled  in  New  York.  L^pon  the  evacuation  of 
Now  York  by  the  Hritish  in  tho  fall  of  17S3, 
he  romovetl  to  New  l^runswick,  where  ho  was 
shortly  appointed  by  Sir  G-.jy  Carleton  as  a 
Lieutenant  in  the  militia  of  the  I'rovinco. 
.Settling  in  St.  Joim,  lie  engaged  in  various 
mereantilo  ]unsuits.  lie  was  tho  lust  tieas- 
uror  of  the  Carloton  R.  A.  ChaiHer  in  St. 
John,  and  l"'.st  Master  of  lliram  Masonic 
Lodge,  tho  first  lodge  organized  in  tho  city. 
At  one  time  ho  was  a  candidate  for  tho  Mouse 
of  Assembly,  and  lawfully  elected.  Hut  in 
some  unaccountable  niainicr  the  olfico  was 
usur|)oil  by  nis  antagonist.  lie  .lied  in  I'eb- 
ruary,  1S14,  and  was  burioil  with  Masonic 
honors. 

'ihe  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kayo  wore: 
Georgianna   M.,  James   Sidney,    Mary    S.    15., 


Annie  J.,  lubnund  G.,  I'"roderick  \\'.,  lulith  K,, 
I'Morence  S. ,  and  J.  Henry.  Tho  first  of  these, 
who  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  Lucius  Allison,  of  St. 
John,  is  tho  mother  of  one  son,  James  J.  K. 
Alli.son.  James  Sidney  is  general  agent  for 
the  Royal  Insurance  Company.  lie  married 
Stella  M.,  daughter  of  Richard  Scovil,  and 
has  the  f(dlowing  named  children ;,  Richard 
Cunningham  I?onsall,  Sidney  Uruce,  l*"loronce 
A. ,  and  Lorna  S.  Mary  S.  1?.  Kayo,  who  ujarriod 
Frank  C).  Allison,  secret  ay  of  the  Hoard  of 
Trade,  is  tho  mother  of  foui  children  ICthel, 
Harold  A.,  Ldnumd  K.,  and  h'rank  D.  lul- 
mund  G.  Kayo,  barrislor-at-law,  is  one  (jf  the 
loctureis  of  Rings  College  Law  .School. 
ICdith  1:.  is  the  wife  of  Charles  J.  R.  Kerr 
and  the  mother  of  throe  children — Annie  I., 
S.  ]■",.  Mignon,  anti  Frances  M.  I).  I'"lorence 
S.  Kaye  was  married  June  i,  iSyij,  to  Henry 
W.  Hooth,  of  London,  ICngland.  J.  Henry  is 
a  Lieutenant  in  the  Royal  Canadian  Regiment. 
He  w:'.:,  lately  Aideile-camj)  to  his  Honor, 
Lieuteuant-Govoruor  A.  R.  McClelan,  but 
sailed  with  tho  Canadian  contingent  for  the 
'J'ransvaal,  as  Lieutenant  of  the  New  Hruns- 
wick  Company  G. 


RI'.DICRICK  IL  HALl-;,  a  resident  of 
Woodstock  and  a  member  of  tho  Do- 
minion I'arliament,  was  born  in  the  parish  of 
Northampton,  Carloton  County,  l)ecom))or  S, 
1844.  His  fathor  was  Martin  Hale,  a  native 
of  Irel  uul,  who  emigrated  to  America  when  a 
boy,  and,  settling  in  Northampton,  became  a 
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the  aj^e  of  sixty-three  years.  Martin  Hale 
ii.arried  a  Miss  Dickinson,  whose  ancestors 
resided  in  New  York  State  previous  to  the 
American  Revolution.  In  17S3  four  brothers 
bearing  this  surname  Dickinson  came  lOast, 
two  settling  in  Hangor,  Me.,  and  the  others, 
who  were  stanch  Loyalists,  locating  in  New 
Hrunswick.  One  of  the  latter  settled  in 
Woodstock,  and  from  him  Mrs.  Hale  was  de- 
scended. Martin  Hale  and  his  wife  were  the 
parents  of  nine  children,  Frederick  H.,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  being  the  seventh- 
born. 

Frederick  11.  Hale  was  educated  in  public 
and  private  schools,  and  at  an  early  age  began 
work  in  the  lumber  camps  on  the  Aroostook 
River.  He  was  cniployed  in  the  wooils  in 
Maine  during  the  Civil  War,  and  at  the  age 
of  twenty-three  he  engaged  in  business  for 
himself,  liauling  logs  for  W.  H.  Murray,  of 
St.  John,  A.  1".  Randolph,  of  I'redericton, 
and  others.  Wiiile  struggling  for  a  business 
foothold,  he  labored  side  by  side  with  his 
men,  as  well  as  attending  to  the  planning  and  ! 
clerical  work  of  bis  o[)erations.  At  length  he 
entered  into  partnership  with  George  Stickncy 
for  the  purpose  of  engaging  in  the  manufact- 
ure of  lumber  at  Grafton,  N.  H.  ;  and  later  he 
became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hale  &  Craig, 
Woodstock,  where  he  carrii.,1  on  a  successful 
l,usiness  for  a  number  of  years.  Then  selling 
out  to  ills  partner,  be  transferred  his  business 
interests  to  Fredericton,  where  he  has  be- 
come prominent  as  a  lumberman  and  manu- 
facturer, and  for  some  time  has  been  a  mem- 
ber   of    the    firm    of    Hale    &    Murchie,    who 


own  extensive  tracts  of  timber  land  in  New 
Hrunswick. 

In  1887  Mr.  Hale,  at  the  urgent  solicita- 
tion of  his  party,  consented  to  stand  as  a  Rejj- 
resentative  of  the  Intlependent  Liberals  for  a 
seat  in  the  'dominion  Parliament,  and  was 
elected  by  a  majority  of  eleven  hundred  and 
thirty-six  votes.  He  served  the  regular  term 
of  four  years,  during  which  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Committees  on  Rivers  and  Canals,  Mis- 
cellaneous and  Private  Hills,  etc.;  and  after 
the  completion  of  his  services  in  1891  lie  re- 
turned home  with  the  intention  of  devoting 
his  whole  time  in  future  to  his  large  business 
interests.  He  also  differed  from  his  party  on 
certain  cpiestions,  being  inclined  toward  the 
Conservative  views,  which  in  the  end  gained 
his  approval  antl  support.  In  1896  Mr.  Hale 
came  forth  from  his  retirement  as  the  Conserv- 
ative candidate;  and,  although  Carleton 
County  bad  never  before  dejiarted  from  its 
traditional  Liberalism,  he  was  triumphantly 
returned  with  a  majority  of  four  hundred  and 
sixteen.  Though  not  a  public  speaker,  and 
taking  no  pnuninent  part  in  the  debates,  he 
exerts  a  c[uiet  inlUience  which  is  far  more 
effective  than  the  fiery  speeches  of  his  opjjo- 
nents;  and  his  courteous  ireatment  of  all  with 
whom  he  comes  in  contact  has  gained  for  him 
a  wiile  circle  of  friends,  both  in  iiolitics  and 
in  business  life. 

Mr.  Hale  c(Uitracted  the  first  of  his  thiee 
marriages  with  Rhoda  McGee,  daughter  of  the 
late  (ieorge  McGee.  .She  died  a  year  after 
marriage,  leaving  one  son.  His  second  wife, 
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seventeen  years  of  wedded  life,  leaving  five 
children,  llis  present  wife  was  before  mar- 
riage Lina  Faulkner,  of  Kings  County,  and 
was  formerly  a  missionary  on  the  Congo  River 
in  Africa. 

Mr.  Hale  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternity and  of  the  Independent  Order  of  For- 
esters. He  attends  the  Free  Haptist  church, 
and  contributes  liberally  toward  its  support. 


fOHN  I5R00KF  GRIEVES,  for  many 
years  the  genial  and  popular  proprietor 
of  the  Waverley  House,  in  Frederic- 
ton,  N.  ]?. ,  his  native  place,  was  born  on  Au- 
gust lO,  1848,  and  died  on  December  12, 
1894,  at  forty-six  years  of  age.  He  was  of 
Scotch  extraction.  His  ancestors  emigrated 
from  Scotland  to  the  north  of  Ireland,  and 
later  came  from  Ireland  to  this  country. 

Williams  Grieves,  father  of  John  Brooke, 
was  a  farmer  by  occupation.  He  also  ran  a 
ferry  across  the  St.  John  River  before  the 
bridges  were  built.  The  Waverley  House 
was  established  by  him;  and,  after  he  had  con- 
ducted it  for  many  years,  he  gave  it  over  to 
the  care  of  this  son.      He  had  many  friends. 

John  Brooke  Grieves,  the  eldest  son  of  his 
parents,  obtained  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  I'"redericton,  including  the  collegi- 
ate school.  He  tlien  learned  cal)inet-making, 
whicii  he  followed  some  time;  and  later  on  he 
became  a  clerk  in  a  grocery  store.  When  he 
was  twenty-five  he  became  the  manager  of  the 
Waverley  House,  and  remained  in  char'^e 
,  as  long  as  lie  lived.      Since   his  ileparture    it 


has  been  conducted  by  his  widow.  Mr. 
Grieves  was  Sergeant-at-Arms  in  the  House  of 
Assembly  for  ten  years  i)rior  to  iiis  death,  and 
made  many  friends  throughout  the  province. 
On  the  day  of  his  funeral  the  government 
offices,  banks,  and  stores  were  all  closed.  He 
was  widely  known  and  beloved  for  his  numer- 
ous kindly  and  charitable  deeds,  many  of 
which  were  known  only  to  the  recipients  of  his 
bounty,  lioth  Mr.  John  B.  Grieves  and  his 
father  were  prominent  Orangemen;  and  he  was 
a  member  of  Hiram  Lodge,  1'.  &  A.  M.,  in 
which  he  held  office.  He  was  an  attendant  of 
the  Trcsbyterian  church. 

In  1S74  Mr.  Jolm  B.  (irieves  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Ruth,  daughter  of  Abraham 
McKeen,  of  Bright,  York  County,  N.  B. , 
where  the  McKecns  were  the  first  settlers. 
Abraham  McKeen  did  a  large  lumber  business, 
and  also  kept  a  .store.  He  was  a  Justice  of 
tiie  Peace.  He  liied  in  his  sixty-second  year. 
Three  children  were  born  to  .Mr.  antl  Mrs. 
Grieves;  but  only  their  daughter,  Annie  May, 
survives.  Siie  is  the  wife  of  Harry  lulward 
Dewar,  a  decorator,  of  Fredericton,  and  re- 
siiles  with  her  widowed  mother.  She  has  one 
son,  John  Brooke  (irieves  Hewar,  born  July  5, 

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HOMAS  ni'L.XN,  dealer  in  meats  and 
ejd  pro\isiiins,  .St.  John,  was  boin  in  .Sus- 
sex, October  15,  1S53,  .son  of  I'eter  and 
Bridget  (Caulfield)  Dean.  His  father  was 
born  in  Ireland  in  iSoo;  and  in  May,  1828, 
he  emigrated  to  New  Brunswick,  coming  in 
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Lean.  He  settled  on  a  farm  six  miles  from 
Sussex,  and,  as  supply  stores  and  money  were 
scarce  in  those  days,  he  conducted  a  profitable 
business  travelling  through  the  country  ex- 
changing merchandise  for  stock  and  produce. 
He  was  the  first  person  to  bring  sheep  and 
cattle  from  I'rincc  lulward  Island  to  the  main 
land.  There  being  no  church  or  school  in 
Sussex,  he  brought  a  teacher  from  St.  John  to 
instruct  his  children,  and  through  his  instru- 
mentality the  Roman  Catholic  Cha|)el  was 
erected  at  Ward's  Creek.  About  the  year  1853 
he  removed  to  St.  John,  and,  engaging  in  busi- 
ness as  a  drover,  became  widely  known 
throughout  the  l'ri)\ince.  He  continueil  in 
business  until  1873,  when  he  retired,  and  was 
succeeded  by  two  of  bis  sons.  He  brought  uj) 
a  family  of  twelve  children;  namely,  Mary, 
Margaret,  Jane,  Catherine,  Uridget,  Nancy, 
I'lllen,  Peter,  Rose,  Hannah,  William,  and 
Tiiomas.  Mary  married  George  Harkings,  of 
Sussex.  Margaret  is  the  wife  of  Hugh  Cum- 
mings,  also  of  Sussex.  Jane  married  Luke 
Hurke,  of  the  same  jilace.  Catherine  is  the 
widow  of  Charles  Gallagher.  Bridget  is  the 
wife  of  John  I'-.  Ryan,  of  Norton.  Nancy 
married  John  McDonald,  of  St.  John.  I'lllen 
died  at  the  age  of  twenty-four  years. 

IVter  Dean,  Jr.,  one  of  the  father's  suc- 
cessors in  business,  married  Mary  A.  Coffee, 
daugbtcr  of  Andrew  and  Lucy  Coffee,  of  y\m- 
lierst,  Cuinijeriand  County,  N.  .S.  Mr.  Coffee 
was  pro|irietor  of  the  Cumberland  Hotel  for 
many  years.  I'eter  Dean,  Jr.,  died  in  i.SSi, 
leaving  a  widow  and  three  children  —  Will- 
iam, Andrew,    and  Josephine.      Rose   Dean   is 


living  with  her  brother  Thomas  in  St.  John. 
Hannah  is  the  widow  of  John  Welch  of  the 
same  place.  William,  of  Maisoneuve,  P.O., 
is  a  member  of  the  Christian  brotherhood,  and 
Thomas  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  The 
father,  Peter  Dean,  Sr.,  died  in  1S90,  at  the 
age  of  ninety  years,  and  the  mother  died  in 
1879. 

Thomas  Dean  was  educated  in  St.  John, 
completing  his  studies  at  tiie  school  of  the 
Christian  Hrothcrhood.  When  a  young  man  he 
became  a  drover,  and  succeeded  to  bis  father's 
business  in  company  with  his  brother  Peter. 
After  the  death  of  the  latter  he  took  charge  of 
the  enteri)rise,  and  in  1889  he  added  to  it  the 
sausage  business  formerly  carried  on  by  John 
Dean.  During  the  past  ten  years,  with  the 
assistance  of  his  nephews,  Andrew  and  Will- 
iam Dean,  he  lias  built  up  a  large  and  i)rofit- 
able  trade. 


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known  in  the  hardware  trade 
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in  .Studbolni,  Kings  County,  in  1840,  a  son  of 
David  and  Sarah  (McCully)  Hayward.  His 
great-grandfather  Hayward  was  an  officer  in 
the  I'ritish  arniv  (hniiig  the  War  (if  liie  Revo- 
lution, and  after  the  war  was  over  was  granted 
a  tract  of  land  in  Nova  Scotia.  A  i)art  of  the 
city  of  Halifax  is  built  on  land  containetl  in 
his  grant.  .After  a  time  lie  abandoned  the 
land,  and  removed  to  .\li)ert  County,  New 
Hrunswick,  settling  where  old  Shepody  now 
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son,  Georj;e  (iiifTith  Ilnyward,  grandfather  i)f 
Sanuicl  llayward,  was  a  farmer  by  occupation. 
He  resided  in  Sussex,  Kinj,'s  County,  and 
there  in  addition  to  carry! nj;  on  farming  he 
built  and  ojierated  what  was  long  known  as 
llayward's  Mill  at  Dutch  Valley.  He  reared 
a  family  of  four  .sons  and  four  daughters.  He 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Liberal  party 
in  an  atteni])t  to  divorce  jiolitics  from  the  old 
church,  and  made  a  haid  fight  for  good  govern- 
ment. He  withdrew  his  membership  from  the 
old  church,  antl  assisted  in  organizing  the 
Methodist  church  in  Sussex.  He  and  his  wife 
lived  to  a  good  old  age. 

David  llayward,  alxive  named,  grew  up  on 
his  father's  farm,  and  followed  agricultural 
pursuits  tiiroughout  iiis  life.  His  wife,  Sarah, 
was  a  daughter  of  l^squire  Samuel  McCully, 
who  came  ironi  .Shepody,  and  whose  family 
were  neighbors  of  the  Haywards.  This  union 
was  blessed  by  two  sons  and  four  daughters. 
The  daughters  were:  Marion,  now  deceased; 
Susan;  Abigail;  and  IClizabiiii,  deceased.  The 
son,  William  H.,  is  also  deceased.  David 
llayward  died  at  tiie  age  of  eighty-seven 
years,  and  his  wife  at  the  advanced  age  of 
ninct)-four. 

.Samuel  llayward  engaged  in  mercantile 
business  for  himself  when  only  sixteen  years 
of  age  at  l']>per  Sussex.  After  continuing 
tiiere  for  some  years  his  health  gave  out,  and 
he  was  obliged  to  give  up.  He  went  West, 
and  for  two  years  lived  among  tiie  Rocky 
.Mountains  seeking  to  recover  his  lost  vitality. 
In  1S70  he  came  to  this  city,  and  became  a 
member  of  the  lirm  of  Warwick,  Clark  &   Co., 


hardware  dealers.  l-'our  years  later  Mr. 
Warwick  withdrew  from  the  comi)any,  and 
the  name  of  the  firm  was  changed  to  Clark  & 
Hayward.  Three  years  subsecpient  to  this  Mr. 
Clark  retired,  and  Mr.  Hayward  carricil  on  the 
business  under  the  name  of  .S.  Hayward  &  Co. 
until  1895,  when  the  business  was  put  into  a 
joint  stock  company  and  incorporated  as  The  .S. 
Hayward  Company.  Mr.  llayward  has  since 
been  president  of  the  company,  which  is  one  of 
the  largest  hardware  concern.^  in  the  Maritime 
I'rovinces. 

Mr.  llayward  was  married  in  iS74to  Miss 
Margaret  Ryan,  a  daughter  of  James  Ryan, 
Msq.,  of  Studholm. 


H.XRI.ICS  MKRRITT  HOSTWICK,* 
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hant  and  one  of  the  leading  lumber 
manufacturers  and  dealers  of  Xew  Hrunswick, 
was  born  in  Kingston,  Kings  County,  X.H. , 
June  25,  1833,  a  .son  of  Jared  and  Mary  A. 
(Adams)  l^istwick.  Jared  Hostwick,  who  was 
born  in  Kingston,  N.l?.,  Xovember  3,  1794, 
was  a  son  of  Isaac  l^ostwick,  who  was  a  native 
of  one  of  the  more  southern  colonies  now 
forming  a  part  of  the  United  .States,  born  May 
27,  1760.  Isaac  was  married  in  New  Jersey, 
November  18,  178J,  during  the  Revolutionary 
War,  to  Tamsan  Cable.  At  the  close  of  the 
war,  with  his  family  he  came  with  the  Loyal- 
ists to  New  Brunswick,  landing  on  May  17, 
17S3,  at  a  point  now  forming  a  part  of  the 
site  of  the  jiresent  city  of  .St.  John.  He  set- 
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with  his  wife  brouglit  up  a  large  family  of  chil- 
dren, of  whom  the  following  is  a  brief  record: 
Mary,  who  was  horn  October  17,  1783;  Han- 
ford,  horn  September  21,  1785,  who  married 
Mary  Seeley,  November  7,  1822,  and  died 
August  13,  1865;  Hannah,  who  was  born  Oc- 
tober 19,  1787;  Sarah,  horn  October  23,  1789, 
who  died  February  15,  1820;  Clarissa  (twin 
sister  of  Sarah),  who  married  Daniel  Crawford 
and  died  August  15,  1816;  Thomas,  born 
January  31,  1793,  who  married  March  22, 
1832,  Miss  Harriett  Hottfain;  Jared,  father  of 
the  sul)ject  of  this  sketch,  tiie  date  of  wiiose 
nativity  has  already  been  given;  Ann,  born 
l'"el)ruary  11,  1797,  who  married  October  18, 
1820,  (ieorge  Prince,  and  died  in  March,  1882; 
Jane,  horn  December  29,  iSoo,  who  married 
William  Whiting,  I'ebruary  24,  1832,  and 
died  September  11,  1887;  Hiram,  born  Janu- 
ary 6,  1 80-,  wlio  married  Mary  Richards, 
March  15,  1836,  anil  died  January  15,  1854. 
Isaac  liostwick,  the  lather,  died  at  Kingston 
in  1808.  His  wife  survived  him  six  years, 
d)iiig  in  1814. 

Jared  Bostwick  was  reared  to  farming  |)ur- 
suits,  which  he  foil  ) wed  during  his  life.  He 
was  married  in  W.'stfield  to  Miss  Mary 
Adams,  a  native  of  Greenwich,  born  in  1807. 
Their  children  were  as  follows:  Isaac  S.,  born 
December  8,  1829;  IClizabeth,  born  May  27, 
1832;  Charles  Merritt,  whose  name  ajipears  at 
the  head  of  this  sketch;  Daniel  Hiram,  born 
March  25,  1835;  John  Neville,  born  December 
26,  1836;  Margaret  Jane,  born  October  12, 
1839,  who  became  the  wife  of  W.  D.  Fowler; 
Thomas   Bradford,    born    December    12,    1842; 


James  Jared,  born  June  11,  184-;  and  Martha 
Adams,  born  June  12,  1848,  who  married 
Hiram  I'owler.  The  father,  Jared  Bostwick, 
died  at  Kingston,  December  4,  1857,  six  years 
after  the  decease  of  bis  wife,  which  occurred 
December  if),   1851. 

Charles  Merritt  Bostwick  was  brought  up  on 
iiis  jiarents'  farm,  and  received  his  education 
in  the  district  schools.  At  the  age  of  twenty- 
five  years  he  went  to  St.  John,  where  he  found 
eniidoyment  as  clerk  in  a  mercantile  establish- 
ment. In  i8f)5  he  opened  an  establishment  of 
his  own  on  Water  Street,  where  he  has  since 
conducted  a  large  and  lucrative  business  in 
wholesale  groceries  and  provisions.  He  has 
al.so  become  (me  of  the  most  extensive  .umber 
manufacturers  and  dealers  in  the  Province, 
owning  a  large  tract  of  timber  land  on  the 
Salmon  River  in  St.  John  County,  and  ship- 
ping his  jiroduct  chiefly  to  lunopean  markets. 
He  is  also  one  of  the  largest  real  estate  owners 
in  St.  John,  the  Dufferiii  Hotel  having  been 
his  |)roperty  for  over  twenty-two  years. 

Mr.  Bostwick  was  married  in  Amherst,  N.  .S., 
August  6,  1867,  to  Miss  Mary  O'Donnell,  a 
native  of  Amherst,  born  December  26,  1836. 
They  iiave  had  tliree  childicn  —  C"harles  Mer- 
ritt Bostwick,  Jr.,  I'^lizabcth,  and  (luy  O'Don- 
nell. Charles  M.  Bostwick,  Jr.,  born  March 
23,  1870,  was  educati'd  in  Germany,  and  sub- 
sequently engaged  in  business  with  his  father, 
with  whom  he  is  still  associated.  Flizabeth, 
born  May  7,  1872,  was  taken  ill  while  11/  route 
to  school  at  Toronto,  and  died  January  29, 
1S90.  Guy  O'Donnell,  born  June  28,  1879, 
was  educated  at   Rothesay,  N.  B. ,  and   is  now 


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clerk  in  ;i  mercantile  house.  An  Anglican  in 
religion,  Mr.  Hostwick  is  vestryman  of  the 
St.  John  (Stone)  Church.  lie  is  a  member 
of  the  St.  George's  Society. 


[I'lom  No.  J  of  a  .'Allies  iif  l.taflets  on  Can.uliiin  History 
issutd  liy  llic  piil)lisli(;i.s  of  the  /■.i/ii,itlioiiiil  A'rriiu;  .St. 
John,  N.ll.j 

GI'NIIKAI.   COFFIN. 

\]\    I.    .M.Il'.N     |.\(  K,    !).(•.  I,. 

LL  the  old  ami  many  of  the  young  citi- 
zens of  St.  John,  N'.H.,  iKive  heard 
of  ("icneral  Coffin;  and  few  tourists 
liave  tiavelKil  on  the  River  St.  John  with- 
out having  had  their  attention  called  to 
the  site  of  the  Coffin  manor  at  the  foot  of 
the  l.oni;-  Reach.  Hut  yet  there  are  very 
few  persons,  even  among  those  who  live  near 
the  General's  old  home  in  the  I'rovince,  wh(» 
know  anything  of  him  except  his  name  and 
tiie  tradition  as  to  his   place  of  residence. 

Trior  to  the  lire  which,  in  June,  1.S77,  con- 
sumed the  greater  part  of  St.  John,  including 
Trinity  Church,  there  was  in  the  latter  build- 
ing a  mural  tablet  whicii  heljied  to  keej)  the 
memory  of  the  departed  soldier  alive.  Upon 
this  was  inscribed  the  following:  — 

Sacred  to  the  memory  of  (ioncral  John  ColTiti  and 
.Anne  Mattliews  his  wife  one  of  the  liist  settler.s  on  the 
River  Saint  John  in  the  year  17S4  and  nntil  the  time  of 
iiis  deatli  wa.s  a  menil)er  of  tlie  I,ej;isl,itive  Council  of 
lliis  province  ever  emlcavomiiif,'  to  increase  the  ajjri- 
ciilliiral  and  commercial  interests  of  the  province:  he 
died  .May  iS,  1S3S  in  tlie  S5  year  of  his  age.  This 
tablet  is  erected  to  liis  memory  liy  his  surviving  chil- 
dren. 


It  is  to  he  regretted  that  the  writer  of  this 
was  api)arently  imable  to  recognize  the  fact 
that  the  unity  existing  between  husband  and 
wife  is  not  generally  ajiparent  in  the  discharge 
of  duties  in  the  Legislature  or  of  a  public  char- 
acter. The  inscri|)tion,  in  addition  to  its  dis- 
regard of  grammatical  rules,  is  inaccurate  as 
to  the  tiate  of  the  death,  which  occurred  on  the 
twelfth,  not  on  the  eighteenth,  day  of  May, 
although  the  latter  might  well  have  been  de- 
sired by  a  Loyalist  of  New  Brunswick  as  a  fit- 
ting time  for  entering  into  re.st. ' 

The  ColTins  were  in  ])ossession  of  Alwington 
Manor  in  Devonshire,  luigland,  from  the  time 
of  the  Norman  Con([uest ;  and  it  is  still  held 
by  their  descendants.  Many  members  of  the 
family  have  occupied  cons|)icuous  positions  or 
distinguished  themselves  in  many  ways.  In 
1529  one  Sir  William  Coffin,  having  discov- 
ered that  a  certain  priest  hatl  refused  to  btny 
a  corpse  imtil  the  only  cow  of  the  deceased  was 
deliverei!  to  him  as  a  burial  fee,  caused  the 
cleric  to  be  placed  in  the  gra\e,  and  to  be 
nearlv,  if  not  entirely,  covered  with  the  e.\- 
huined  soil.  Instead  of  being  punished  for 
this  ecclesiastical  offence,  the  knight  was  en- 
abled to  effect  through  his  infiuence  in  I'arlia- 
mcnt  a  needed  change  in  relation  to  biuial 
fees.      Upon  the  restoration  of  the  royal  family 


'  flip  reiinins  o(  Oener.lI  C"i)ITm  lie  in  the  t.'Inircli  of  Kn^land  I)iiri.(l- 
HiDiind,  WeMtielcl.  .1  I)eautifiil  spot  on  a  tiill  overlooItinR  the  St.  Jolin  l<i\er, 
at)oiit  .1  (lunrtcr  of  it  mile  (li)«t.int  from  the  site  of  the  t.'olVtn  iiutnor.  'IVt  the 
left,  on  enterioK  the  l)nri.il-Brrinn(l  from  the  ni.nl  wliieh  riuis  close  by  it,  two 
gmves  .ire  seen  with  the  following  inscriptions  on  the  toniijstones:  — 


NATH'I.  COrFI.V 
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f.KNKUAI. 

J.  l'(i|-l'IN 

aged  «7. 

Near  the  head  of  the  graves  is  an  oak-tree,  a  shoot  from  which  — not 
more  than  of  two  seasons'  growth,  when  the  writer  visited  it  in  September 
of  this  year  — Ilis  sprung  up  from  the  General's  grave  near  the  head.— 
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Cdliincl  Tristram  Coffin,  then  Governor  of 
I'lynioutli,  wild  liad  r(ui;;lu  a^jainst  the  crown 
(lurinfj  the  war  of  tlie  rcl)ellion,  embarked  for 
Ameriia  and  settled  witli  his  family  at  New- 
l)ury|)ort,  Mass.  lie  left  his  only  daughter  in 
Mnylaiul,  to  secure,  if  possihle,  his  inheri- 
tance. She  married  a  Mr.  I'ine,  who  took  the 
name  of  Codfin;  and  tlicir  descendants,  the 
I'ine-C'oirms,  are  in  occupation  ol  thi'  oid 
estates  to-day. 

Nathaniel  Coffin,  of  the  American  branch, 
was  a  merchant  possessed  of  sinne  means,  and 
Cashier  of  Customs  at  Huston,  Mass,  ]le  took 
the  side  of  the  irown  durini;  the  .\mci  ican 
Kovolution,  suffered  j;reatly  from  loss  of  prop- 
erty, and  was  never  reimbursed,  lie  had  foiu' 
sons  .Tnd  several  dauf,diters.  The  eklest  son, 
Naliianiel,  a  successful  lawyer,  havin^i,  with 
his  brother  next  to  him  in  a^e,  assisted  in 
cutting  down  a  liberty  jude,  was  oblij;eil  to 
.seek  safety  in  tli{,dU  from  15oston.  The  fourth 
son,  Isaac,  died  a  Hritisii  ailmiral  and  baronet 
in  1S39,  ;it  tile     je  Age  of  eighty-two  years. 

John,  tiie  third  son  of  the  elder  Nathaniel 
and  the  siibject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in 
Hoston  in  175'').  lie  took  to  the  sea  at  an 
early  age,  and  eviiu-ed  such  aptitude  for  his 
calling  that  he  became  a  master  niaiincr  wiien 
he  was  but  eighteen  years  old.  In  1775  iiis 
vessel  was  employed  as  a  transport,  and,  having 
on  board  the  greater  |)art  of  a  regiment  and 
also  Cicneral  Ho'vc,  reached  Hoston  on  the 
ijtli  of  June.  The  lroo[)s  were  landed  under 
Hunker  1 1  ill;  and,  the  battle  bearing  that 
name  having  commenced,  the  Colonel  invited 
the  young  sailor  "to  come  up  and  sec  the  fun." 


He  promptly  accepted  the  invitation,  and, 
armed  with  the  only  available  weapon,  a  tiller, 
soon  secured  the  musket  of  an  American  sol 
dii'r,  whom  he  had  felled  to  the  earth,  and 
used  it  to  good  effect.  Indeed,  his  courage  anil 
capacity  were  so  conspicuous  on  this  occasi-" 
that  (iencral  (iage,  to  whom  he  was  presen 
at  the  close  of  the  action,  made  him  an  luisig  . 
on  the  licld,  and  soon  after  he  was  promoted 
to  a  Lieutenancy,  lie  ii.ul  beiii  jircjuiiscd  by 
Sir  William  Howe  that,  if  he  woukl  go  to 
New  York  and  raise  four  hundred  men  for  the 
;oyal  service,  they  should  be  placed  imder  his 
command,  lie  raised  and  commanded  a  com- 
jiany  in  the  King's  Orange  Rangers  about  the 
beginning  of  the  year  1776;  and  he  .served  in 
this  corjis  until  1778,  when  he  exchanged  into 
the  New  \'ork  Volunteers.  lie  took  part  in 
the  battles  of  Lohl;  Island  in  1777,  of  Cerman 
Town  and  Saint  Lucie  in  1778,  of  Bri.r 
(Jreek  in  1779,  and  of  Camden  in  1 
There  are  no  extant  details  of  his  e.xploits  . 
these;  but  in  the  accounts  of  the  battles  of 
Hampton,  I  lobkirk's  Hill,  and  b'.utaw  .Springs 
in  17M1  his  heroic  conduct  is  fully  recognized 
and  described.  In  his  obituary  notice  in  a  St. 
John  paper  it  is  also  stated  that  he  had  taken 
part  in  the  battle  of  Savanna!)  and  in  liu' 
action  at  Cross  Creek.  Colfm's  c.i\alry,  which 
derived  its  name  from  him  as  its  leader,  was 
generally  dreaded  and  often  avoided  by  the 
revolutionists,  and  ten  thousand  dollars  was 
offered  for  the  head  of  tlie  obnoxious  ofiiccr. 
In  1781,  when  attempting  dining  war  to  enjoy 
ti.e  delights  of  l(jve  at  the  home  of  William 
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was  tracki'il  1)\-  tlic  I'liciny,  and  diil)  avoided 
bcinj;  captmvd  by  Knucaling  liiiiisclf  liencatli 
tlio  li(>(ii)-skii ts  (jf  till'  daiif^liU'r  of  liis  Iki.^i, 
Miss  AiiiR'  MaltlK'ws,  wlio  siil)sc(|iiciitly  l)c- 
canic  his  wife.  ( )n  one  occasion,  when  mak- 
ing' one  n[  many  loiays,  he  xisited  a  house 
where  a  weddinjj  was  al)out  to  he  hehl,  and, 
havin;^  been  funiislied  liy  tlie  proprietor  with 
sii|)i)lies  for  liis  eorps,  on  l)einj4  invited,  re- 
mained for  tiie  festivities  and  darned  witii  tiie 
bride.  .\l  tlie  elose  of  tiie  war  lie  liad  reached 
no  hi;;her  rank  than  that  of  Major;  and  it  is 
.supposed  that  his  jironiotioii  was  opposed  in 
e(insc(|ncnce  of  his  having  exposed  the  coward- 
ice of  a  natuial  son  of  fieorge  III.,  and  thereby 
incuired  the  ill  will  of  that  ninnarch.  Lord 
Ciirnwallis,  Lord  W'illiani  Howe,  Lord  Kaw- 
don,  and  the  Mar(|nis  of  Hastings  exerted 
themselves  to  overcome  the  obstinacy  of  the 
kiii,^-,  but  to  no  purpose. 

In  May,  17S4,  Major  Coffin  with  his  wife, 
two  children,  three  black  met  uul  one  black 
woman,  arrived  in  New  Mruiis  k,  anil  pro- 
ceeded to  occiip)-  the  property  .,  ady  nien- 
tioneil,  wliicli  be  named  Ahvinj;ton  Manor 
after  the  f.amilv  seat  in  h-ngland.  1 1  ere  he 
comnienced  a  career  of  usefulness  which  only 
teiminated  with  his  life.  He  was  at  different 
periods  a  member  of  the  Assembly  and  of  the 
Legisiati\e  Council,  superintendent  of  Indian 
schools,  and  chairman  of  (Juarter  .Sessions. ' 
He  imported  stock  and  seeds  and  improved 
agricultural  implenunls,  not  only  fur  himself 
and   bis    tenants,   but    In   distribute   among  his 

'  In  the  St.  Jnllli  t!iizfttt'  uf  .April  i6,  i;.).),  is  the  folluwing  p.iriiKniph  : 
"  C'nI.  John  ColVnt,  ttf  this  Province,  is  .appointed  a  Itrigidier-general  to  cuiu- 
mand  on  the  NevvfoiiiHll.ln(l  SLllion." 


neighbors.  Nor  were  his  henelits  limited  to 
the  Province;  for  in  iSji  the  Massachusetts 
Society  for  rronioting  .Agricnltiiie  thanked 
him  for  "a  line  stud  horse  of  the  light  cart 
breed,"  and  made  him  an  honorary  mendier  of 
the  association.  In  1  So^  Colonel  CofTin  went 
to  Lngland,  and  was  presented  at  court,  where, 
with  his  handsome  face  and  fine  figure,  six  feet 
two  inches  in  height,  he  seems  to  have  made 
a  lavorable  impression  upon  the  mind  of  the 
king.-  He  was  offereil,  but  declined,  a  regi- 
ment; hut  in  1812  he  raised  and  obliiined 
cominaild  of  a  body  of  si,\  hundred  men,  which, 
under  the  name  of  the  New  Hriinsvvick  l''en- 
cible.-i,  served  to  |irotect  the  rroviiue  during 
the  absence  of  the  One  Ilimdied  and  I''ourth 
Regiment  in  Upper  Canada.  I'rior  to  1.S29 
he  nuule  several  visits  to  Lngland,  always  re- 
turning to  the  Province  with  the  spring.  He 
had  ten  children,  of  whom  eight  lived  to  matu- 
rity, his  eldest  son  dying  in  iiS'sf),  a  Cieneral 
in  the  Koyal  .Artillery,  and  two  of  his  sons 
having  att;iined  in  ihe  Royal  Navy,  one  to  the 
rank  of  .\dmiral,  the  other  to  that  of  Vice- 
Admiral. 

Sidiine,  in  "Notes  on  Duels  and  Duelling," 
states  that  in  a  duel  between  Colonel  Campbell, 
of  the  British  service,  and  Major  CofTin,  at 
New  \'(irk,  in  i7iS\5,  llie  latter  was  wounded 
ill  the  groin. '      In   the  same  work  a  cai tel   fiom 


2  The  St.  Jiilin  tutzfttfol  I>ecetnber  to,  rSo.i,  has  Ihe  foltowinf; :  "  AnionK 
the  ui.uiy  milil.ny  promotions  that  have  Lately  tikcn  place  in  iMiKhind,  we 
.lie  pleased  tu  liiid  the  ii.iiiies  ot  < ■olunels  ('otliii  and  ArnisIronK.  both  of 
this  I'roviiite,  who  are  advanced  to  the  rank  of  Major-jjeneral." 

M  In  Fehniary  25.  1707.  a  duel  was  fought  near  Kredericton  hetweeii  Colonel 
John  ColTin  and  James  (ileiiie.  in  which  the  latter  was  slightly  wounded, 
'riie  St.  John  iiitzelff,  conimentini'  on  tile  incident,  says;  "  The  contending 
parties  on  this  occasion  behaved  in  e\eiy  point  with  the  strictest  honour  and 
distinguished  themselves  as  gentlemen  and  men  of  valour.'' 


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the  latter  forvvanlc'il  and  addressed  in  iSi8  to 
Ii()l)Cit  Parker,  Coniptrnller  of  C'usionis,  St. 
John,  N.  H.,  is  set  out  as  follows:  — 

St'i; —  1  have  tlic  honour  to  coinimiiiicato  the  follow- 
ing note  received  from  your  son  N'evil  last  Sunday  morn- 
iny;.  1  am  not  in  the  habit  of  entertaining  young  gentle- 
men at  this  iiiioinviiii'iit  place.  l!ut.  sir,  harboring  no 
■;'in<ihthu-  rcsiulment  ii{;ains/  yoii,  and  our  ages  being 
more  ei|iial,  if  you  will  attend  me  npt.n  a  parly  of  jileas- 
ure  to  Moose  Island  I  shall  ')e  very  happy  to  entertain 
you.  I  regret  very  niurh  that  1  cannot  otTer  you  a  pas- 
sage in  the  schooner  .Martir..  as  she  is  at  present  out  of 
comnii.ssion. 

I  have  the  honour  lo  be,  sir.  with  the  utmost  considera- 
tion. 

Your  most  obedient  humlile  servant, 

John   Col-l-lN. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  Kobert  Parker's 
.son,  to  whom  tiie  wiiter  of  llie  al)o\e  refers, 
was  tile  late  Hon.  Neville  Parl<er,  Master  of 
the  Rolls  and  brother  of  the  late  Chief  Jtistiee 
Parker. 

In  eoneliision,  it  nia\  he  mentioned,  as  an 
instance  of  tlie  (leneral's  stienL;th  and  courage, 
that  on  one  occasion,  when  proeeeding  in  a 
whale-boat  to  St.  John  from  the  manor,  with 
his  youngest  danghtei,  six  or  eight  \ears  of 
age,  aikl  a  boatman,  he  attacked  and  killeil  a 
bear  which  had  taken  to  the  ri\er  to  escape  its 
pursuers,  the  only  weapons  being  an  oar  and 
the  sprit  or  boom  of  the  sail. 


AMIvS    ROHINSON.  a  retired    busine-  ■ 
man,  who  \vas  for  many  years  identified 
with    the  shipping  and  banking    inter- 
ests of  St.  John,  was  born   in   Queens  Cotmty, 


New  llrun.swick,  Febrtiary  i,  1830,  son  of 
Charles  and  Mary  (Lawson)  Robinsoti.  1 1  is 
father  was  a  native  of  Queens  Cotmty,  as  was 
also  his  grandfather,  Charles  Robinson,  Sr. , 
and  the  latter  was  a  son  of  Patrick  Robinson 
the  first  of  the  family  to  settle  in  New  Hrnns- 
wiek. 

Patrick  Robinson,  who  was  a  native  of  I. on 
donderi}-,  Ireland,  came  to  America  with  the 
British  army,  and  served  tmtil  the  close  of  the 
Revolutio.iary  War.  After  his  regiment  was 
disbanded  he  came  with  other  soldiers  to  New 
Brunswick,  and  settled  upon  a  grant  of  land  in 
(Jucens  Cinnity,  where  he  resided  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  at  an  advancctl  age. 
He  folio-  ed  his  trade,  that  of  a  tailor,  for 
many  years,      lie  reared  a  large  family. 

Charles  Robinson,  Sr. ,  the  grandfather,  fol- 
lowed general  ''arming  in  (jiieens  County  dur- 
ing his  active  years,  and  died  at  the  age  of 
eighty-four.  He  married  Mary  Sutter,  daugh- 
ter of  James  Suiter,  a  native  of  Paisley,  Scot- 
land, and  a  weaver  by  tiaile.  Their  children 
were:  James,  'riiomas,  Charles,  John,  Mar- 
garet, Sarah,  Mar)-,  and  Rebecca.  The  grand- 
mother lived  to  be  nearly  eighty-six  years  old. 

Charles,  father  of  James  Robinson,  settled 
in  .St.  John  when  a  young  man,  and  became 
associated  with  Messrs.  J.  and  T.  Robinson, 
extensive  sbii)owners,  and  imjiorters  of  West 
India  goods.  He  married  for  his  first  wife 
Mar\-,  (kiughter  of  William  T-awson,  a  farmer 
of  (Jiieens  County.  She  died,  leaving  two 
sons:  James,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  and 
llir;im.  l-'cr  his  second  wife  he  married  V.\iv:a 
Kenney,  who  boie  him  three  childien  —  V.Wzw 


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Jane,  Rebecca,  and  Charles.  Charles  Robin- 
son died  in  March,  1872;  and  his  widow,  who 
lived  to  be  ninety-four  years  old,  died  in 
Somerville,  Mass.,  in  February,  1^99,  and  is 
buried  in  Fern  Hill  Cemetery,  St.  John,  N.  15. 

James  RoDinson  j;iew  to  manhood  and  was 
educated  in  St.  Jolm.  After  lea\inf;  school  he 
bej;an  I  's  business  training  as  a  clerk  in  a 
grocery  store,  where  he  remained  a  year. 
After  that  for  three  years  lie  was  in  the  hard- 
ware business,  and  lor  the  succeeding  three 
years  he  wa.s  employed  at  Harris  and  Allan's 
foundry.  He  was  for  twenty  jears  with  D. 
and  T.  Vaughan,  at  that  time  one  of  the  largest 
shipping  firms  in  this  city,  and  the  last  nine- 
teen years  of  his  business  life  were  spent  in 
the  Dominion  Savings  l?ank. 

t)n  March  17,  1S53,  Mr.  Robinson  marrieil 
Miss  Anna  Maria  Merrill,  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Rebecca  (Carpenter)  Merritt.  Her  grarul- 
jiarents  were  Cilbert  and  I'luebe  (Hirdsill) 
Merritt,  the  former  of  whom  came  from  Long 
Island,  N.V.,  with  the  Loyalists  after  the  Rev- 
olutionary War,  and  settled  in  Hanipstead, 
(jueens  County,  riio-be  liinlsill  .Merritt  was 
a  daughter  of  licnjainin  liirdsill,  whose  wife 
lived  to  be  ninety-nine  years  old.  The  liird- 
sills  came  to  New  l^unswick  on  board  the 
"  Mayflower,"  which  arrived  here  on  .M:i\  iS,  \ 
T'*^.!,  when  I'lKebe  Meiritt  was  eighty-seven 
years  old,  and  she  lived  to  be  ninct)-se\-en. 
The  children  of  (iilbert  anil  I'liuebe  liirdsill 
Merritt  were'  Abr.iham ;  Caleb;  Isaac; 
Robinson;  l'''njaniin;  .Sarah;  Anna;  Uebnrah ; 
riKebe;  I'llizabelh  ;  and  .Mar_\-,  who  is  .still  li\- 
ing.      Isaac   Meriitt,    who   was  a   nierehant    in 


Hampstead  and  kept  a  public  house  there  for 
several  years,  died  in  1S35,  aged  thirty-si.x 
years,  leaving  an  only  daughter,  who  is  now 
Mrs.  Roi;inson.  His  widow  married  for  her 
second  husband  Daniel  Carpenter,  by  whom 
.she  had  four  children  ^ — Mary  and  .Sybil  (de- 
ceased), Daniel  li. ,  and  Kate.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Robinson  have  had  two  daughters,  namely: 
Adilie,  who  married  Walter  H.  Allen,  and  is 
no  longer  living;  and  Maria  Helena,  wife  of 
De  H.  Carritte,  of  St.  John.  They  have  one 
son,  Roy  de  H.  Carritte.  They  lost  one  child, 
Marie  JClise,  aged  se\en  years. 


TIll'RI.  TRCHMAN,  M.A.,  D.C.L., 
O.C,  Judge  of  I'robate  for  the  cily 
and  county  of  St.  John,  N.]).,  was' 
born  at  I'ointe  ihi  liule,  Westmorlaiu!  County, 
N.H.,  on  the  19th  of  Jul\,  1S50,  a  son  of 
Joseph  and  Janet  .\.   (Scott)  Truenian. 

His  father,  Joseph  Trueman,  a  successful 
and  well-to-do  tanner,  was  a  great-grandson  of 
William  and  Ann  (Thompson)  Trueman,  who 
in  1775  came  to  Halifax,  N..S, ,  from  \'ork- 
shire,  Lngland,  and  soon  afterward  settled  in 
I'ointe  du  liute  near  the  old  Fort  Heausejour, 
a  spot  fra-  _,ht  with  historical  associations  of 
the  early  wars  between  the  l'",nglish  and  I'"rench 
at  the  lime  of  the  comiuest  (}f  .Acadia  bv  the 
lormer.  Joseph  Truenian  died  in  1S99,  at  the 
age  of  eight)  -one  years.  His  wife  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  .Adam  and  Janet  (Amos)  Scott,  who  in 
|S;4  came  with  their  family  from  Dumfries- 
shire, Scotland,  to  (Juebec,  and  afterward  set- 
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N.U.  Adam  Scott  died  in  i.'Iv'>  '^t^cd  nincty- 
eiglit  years;  and  his  wife,  Janet  Scott,  died  in 
1S84,  at  the  aj;e  of  ninety. 

y\ithur  I.  'I'luenian  received  his  preliminary 
education  in  the  common  scliools  and  at  Am- 
herst Academy,  Amherst,  N.  S.  ]'"rom  1868 
to  1872  he  attended  Daliiousie  College  and 
University  at  Halifax,  N.  S. ,  completing  a 
four  years'  arts  course,  and  graduating  with 
the  degree  of  bachelor  of  Arts,  with  honors. 
He  received  tiie  degree  of  Master  of  Arts 
from  the  .same  college  in  187S.  After  leav- 
ing college  he  taught  for  two  years  under  a 
grammar-school  license  in  the  puhlic  schools 
of  the  city  of  Portland,  N.  15. ,  and  from 
1876  to  1879  held  the  in^portant  jiosition  of 
sujierintendent  of  the  public  schools  in  that 
city.  Subsequently  resigning  the  position  of 
superintendent,  Mr.  Trueman  engaged  in  the 
stud}'  of  law  in  the  (itlice  of  I'ugsley,  Crawford 
&   I'ugsle\-,  was  admitted  an  attorney  June  17, 

1880,  antl   enrolled    as    a    barrister   June    20, 

1881.  On  his  admission  as  attorney  he  be- 
came a  partner  in  the  firm  above  mentioned, 
the  style  of  wliiih  was  then  ch.niged  to  I'ugs- 
ley, Crawfonl,  I'ugsley  &  Trueman  ;  and  atter- 
wart!  he  was  a  partner  with  the  lion.  William 
I'ugsley,  under  the  firm  name  of  I'ugsley  & 
'rruenian.  Since  18S5  Mr.  Trueman  has  prac- 
tised by  himself.  On  Ajiril  4,  188^,  he  was 
appointed  reporter  of  the  deci;  ions  of  tiie  .Su- 
preme Court  of  New  Brunswick,  and  held  that 
office  until  December,  1894.  During  that 
peiiod  he  published  ten  \olumes  of  \er\'  valu- 
able reports.  In  December,  1894,  Mr.  True- 
man    was  appointed   Judge  of    Probate   for   the 


city  and  county  of  St.  John,  which  office  he 
still  holds.  In  1899  he  was  created  a  Queen's 
Counsel  by  the  Province.  In  1890  he  received 
the  degree  of  Haehelor  of  Civil  Laws  from  the 
University  of  New  Brunswick,  and  in  1895 
that  of  Doctor  of  Ci\il  Laws  from  tlie  savie 
university.  He  is  lecturer  on  wills  and  ex- 
ecutors in  the  Law  .School  in  St.  John,  in 
connection  with  King's  College,  Windsor,  N.  .S. 
Jud;i;e  Trueman  has  continued  to  take  great 
interest  in  educational  matters  in  the  Province 
and  elsewhere.  In  1896  he  was  appointed 
chairman  of  the  Hoard  of  School  Trustees  of 
.St.  John  by  the  government  of  New  ]5runs- 
wiek,  which  position  he  still  holds;  and  he  is 
one  of  the  governors  of  Dalhousie  College  and 
University,  Ilalifa.v,  N  !'.. 

P'or  some  years  Judge  Trueman  held  a  com- 
mission as  Cajitain  in  the  Sixty-second  St. 
John  I'"usiliers.  In  religion  he  is  a  Presby- 
terian, and  for  several  _\ears  has  been  a  mem- 
ber and  chairman  of  the  Hoard  of  Trustees  of 
.St.  .Stejihen's  Church  in  the  city  of  St.  John. 
He  was  elected  an  elder  in  t'.-.e  same  church  in 
1887.  In  politics  he  is  a  Liberal,  and  at  the 
general  election  in  1892  was  one  of  the  candi- 
dates for  the  city  and  county  of  St.  John  in 
support  of  the  Provincial  govcmient,  but  was 
defeated. 

An  active  l'"ree  Mason,  he  has  held  most  of 
the  principal  offices  in  the  Masonic  orders, 
and  is  now  ComnKuuler  of  the  New  Hrunswick 
Sovereign  Consistory,  thirty-second  degree, 
and  a  member  of  the  (irand  Council  of  the 
.Sovereign  Creat  I'riory  <if  Canada. 

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'riucniaii  niairicd  Margaret  K.  MacMillan, 
clilest  diuighter  of  the  Hon.  John  JMacMillan, 
I'ost-ofTice  Inspector  for  New  Hninswick.  lie 
has  six  children — John  MacMillan,  Joseph 
Douglas,  Mary  Alice,  iXrthur  Ilarokl,  Janet 
Agnes  Gertrude,  and  lulith  Kathleen. 


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i;ORC.I':  A.  IIICTHKRINGTON, 
V^X  ^I-IJ-.  I- M.  (Dublin),  superintendent 
of  the  Provincial  Lunatic  Asylum  at  .St.  John, 
was  born  at  Johnston,  Queens  County,  N.  H. , 
March  17,  185  t,  his  parents  being  James  Grier- 
son  and  Mary  Jane  (Clark)  Iletherington. 
His  paternal  grandfather,  who  was  born  in 
{■Jiglanil,  left  his  native  land  about  seventy 
years  ago  to  make  his  home  in  New  15runswick, 
and,  settling  in  St.  John,  established  there  a 
merchant  tailoring  business,  one  of  the  first 
enterprises  of  its  kind  in  the  then  young  and 
small  city.  Dr.  Hetheringlon's  mother  was 
a  native  of  New  Brunswick,  and  came  of  New 
luigland  Loyalist  stock. 

George  A.  Iletherington,  after  receiving  his 
elementary  education  in  tlie  schools  ot  iiis 
native  town,  attended  the  Normal  .School 
in  St.  John,  wliere  he  was  granted  a 
teaciier's  certificate,  and  afterward  taught 
school  for  a  sliort  time.  I-"ollowing  that,  he 
attended  for  two  years  the  Haptist  Seminary  at 
I'redericton.  He  then  siienl  two  years  in  the 
nieilical  department  of  the  University  of 
Michigan,  one  year  of  which  was  employed 
with  a  special  course  of  study.  While  prose- 
cuting his  studies  tlvre,  he  was  appointed 
residint   i)hysician  of  W'a.shtenaw  County  Asy- 


lum, which  position  he  held  for  a  year,  at  the 
same  time  continuing  his  studies  at  the  uni- 
versit)'.  After  completing  the  jirescribed 
course,  he  went  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where,  in 
the  C<dlege  of  Medicine  and  Surgery  and  in 
the  Cjeneral  Hospital,  he  came  into  direct  con- 
tact with  the  practical  side  (jf  his  chosen  pro- 
fession, and  add'Xl  largely  to  jiis  knowledge  of 
medicine  and  surgerv.  At  this  college  he 
graduated  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  i(S75,  and  in 
the  winter  of  187C  took  special  certificates 
in  nervous  diseases  in  .\ew  \'ork  I'olyclinic 
and  Post-graduate  Medical  -Schools.  Keturn- 
ing  then  to  New  l?nuiswick,  he  successfulh' 
practised  liis  profession  for  neaily  five  years. 
At  the  end  of  that  time,  with  tiie  \ieu'  of 
further  perfecting  himself  for  his  life  work, 
he  went  to  luliidnngh,  Scotland,  and  sjient 
some  time  in  the  Royal  Infirmary  of  that  city. 
l''rom  Ldinburgh  lie  proceeded  to  Dublin,  Ire- 
land, wliere  he  took  tlie  full  qualification  from 
the  Rotunda  Hospital  for  Women ;  also  a  spe- 
cial course  certificate  I'or  diseases  of  women 
and  children.  After  his  graduation  there  he 
was  ajipointed  resident  instructor  and  clinical 
clerk,  and  had  charge  of  the  external  maternity 
department.  At  the  close  of  his  engagement 
there  he  returned  again  to  his  native  land, 
and  in  i.ScS2  began  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion in  St.  John,  of  which  city  he  is  imw  one 
of  the  leading  physician  :.  He  was  granted  his 
present  appointment  by  the  local  government 
in    1896. 

He  is  a  nieniber  of  the  British  Medical 
Association,  a  Life  l''ellow  of  the  jiritish 
(jyn;eco|ogical   .Societ)',  New  Brunswick  .Medi- 


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cal  Society,  Maritime  Medical  Society,  ami  St. 
John  Medical  Society,  and,  besides  liavinj^ 
served  a  nnnd)er  of  years  on  the  I'uhlic  Schoid 
Hoard  of  St.  John,  has  lield  the  aiipoinlnient 
of  Coron('r  in  the  city  ancl  county,  also  Coni- 
niissioner  of  (ieneral  I'uhlic  Hosiiital,  and 
Lecturer  to  .School  fo'-  Nurses.  In  1883  he 
was  a|)[)ointed  surgeon  to  the  St.  John  l-'ire- 
men's  Mutual  Relief  Association. 

Dr.  Iletherirgton  is  Past  Chancellor  in 
Knights  of  I'ythias;  I'ast  Supreme  \'ice- 
Rangcr,  I.  O.  1'".,  and  I'asI  IIij;h  Physician  of 
same  order;  also  thirty-second  degree  Mason 
and  Noble  of  Mystic  Shrine  (Alei)i)o  Temple, 
Uoston).  Notwithstanding  the  demand  upon 
his  time,  he  has  for  many  years  held  a  com- 
mission anil  taken  an  interest  in  the  .Sixty- 
second  St.  Joim  l'"usiliers.  In  1871  he  at- 
tended the  military  school,  P'redcricton,  and 
was  awarded  a  second-class  certificate.  Dr. 
Ilctheringlon  has  travelled  extensively  on  both 
sides  of  the  Atlantic,  proseiailing  his  studies 
as  he  went,  in  Canada,  United  .States  of 
America,  in  Creat  Ihitain  and  liclaiul,  and 
in  (iermany. 

lie  was  married  .September  5,  1876,  to  Miss 
Sii)yl  .Mclnlyre,  of  Sussex,   N.H. 


AkI)  ClilPMAN  '  was  the  son  of 
John  Chipman,  a  member  of  the 
Massaciuisetts  l)ar,  and  was  born  in  Hoston  in 
1753.  After  grailuating  at  Harvard,  he  studied 
law,    was  duly   atlmitted,    and    practised    as    a 

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Jack,  U.C,  It. CM...  in  Transactions  of  tlie  Royal  Society  of  Canada  lor 


lawyer  in  l?oston  until  1776.  He  was  cm- 
ployed  as  secretary  of  a  commission  to  adjudi- 
cate upon  claims  for  supplies  for  the  crown. 
That  he  was  faiil)'  remunerated  for  this  service 
appears  from  the  ftdlowing  extract  from  a  letter 
to  him  from  Jonathan  .Sewall,  the  eliier,  who 
had  ably  controverted  the  jiolitical  writings  of 
James  Otis,  written  at  liiistol,  I'.ngland,  the 
iSth  of  March,  1780:  "Till  you  become  a 
father,  my  dear  Chipman,  you  will  never  realize 
the  pleasure  I  received  from  your  account  of 
)dur  situation  at  Mrs.  ()gil\ie's.  I.odgingand 
board  with  a  servant  and  iiorse  at  one  huiuhcd 
and  eighty  ]iounds  per  amiuni,  and  your  income 
three  hundred  pounds  ]ier  annum  —  how  much 
better  this  than  to  visit  in  pjigland  upon  one 
huiuired  pounds!"  When  New  'N'ork  was  evacu- 
ated, Mr.  Ciiipman  went  to  I'.nglaiul,  whence,  in 
the  summer  of  1784,  lie  sailed  for  New  liruns- 
wick,  receiving  the  aiipointment  of  Sidicitor 
(General  of  that  Province  and  that  of  Recorder  of 
thec'*yof  .St.  John.  There  is  reason  to  !>clieve 
tJKit  he  had  not  tlien,  or  perhaps  later,  learned 
the  art  of  living  within  his  means;  and,  al- 
though his  income  at  tiiis  time  ajipears  to  have 
been  limited  to  his  half-pay  —  ninety-one 
pounds  per  annum  before  iiis  embarkation 
lie  expended  three  pounds,  liftcen  shillings, 
sixpence  upon  a  drcssing-bo.x,  sixteen  pounds 
of  P'rench  h:iir  powtler,  and  other  toilet  acces- 
soiies.  He  commenced  the  practice  of  law  in 
the  spring  of  1785,  his  office  hours  being  fiom 
8  .\.  M.  till  3  I'.  .M.  Jonathan  .Sewall,  the 
younger,  who  afterward  became  Attorney  (Ien- 
eral and  Chief  Justice  of  Lower  Canada, 
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and  was  admitteil  an  attornL'v  Ironi  liis  office. 
Stephen  Sewall,  brotlier  of  the  eml)ryo  Chief 
Justice,  also  studied  law  till  he  became  an 
attorney  under  the  Solicitor  General ;  and  tlie 
jiarents  of  tlic  \'ouiij;  men  came  to  reside  in  St. 
Joliii,  wliere  their  fatiier  died  in  ijy'').  In  1785 
Mr.  CliiiinKni  was  selected  as  one  of  the  govern- 
ment candiilates  for  the  city  at  the  first  ^^eneral 
election  for  the  Provincial  Legislature,  and 
after  an  exciting  and  even  riotous  contest  he 
and  his  fellow-nominees  for  the  city  and  count}- 
of  St.  John  were  duly  returned. 

On  the  24th  of  October,  1786,  he  married 
IClizabeth,  the  eUlest  daughter  of  William 
llazen,  one  of  the  first  grantees  of  St.  John 
and  in  residence  there  before  the  huiding  of 
the  Loyalists.  Shortly  after  his  marriage  Mr. 
Chipman  purchased  a  plot  of  ground  on  Union 
Street,  at  the  northerly  end  of  Prince  William 
Street,  im  which  he  erected  a  commndious 
iiouse,  in  which  he  subseiiucntly  resided.  'I'liis 
building  is  still  standing,  and  possesses  inter- 
est not  only  as  the  home  of  .1  leading  Loyalist 
and  his  son  during  their  lives,  hut  as  tiie  tcm- 
poiar)'  abiding  [ilace  of  the  Duke  of  Kent  and 
also  of  the  Prince  of  Wales.  Whether  Mr. 
Chipman  failed  in  courting  popularity  or  suf- 
tcrcil  from  supiiorting  measures  not  generally 
approved  by  his  constituents  is  not  apparent, 
but  at  the  second  general  election  he  was 
returned  for  Northumberland  County  instead 
of  the  city  of  St.  John.  He  does  not  a|ipear 
to  have  had  a  leaning;  to  jiolitical  life, 
ami  in  a  letter  written  alioul  tiiis  time  he 
jilainly  intimates  tiiat  he  had  sought  election 
pari!)     fr(jni    deference    to    the    wishes    of   his 


friends  and  partly  in  tiie  unfulfdled  hope  that 
he  might  secure  the  speaker's  chair.  lie  for 
a  short  time  acted  as  Attorney  General,  but 
his  appointment  to  the  office  by  the  governor 
was  not  confirmed  by  the  crown.  In  1796, 
however,  his  .services  and  abilities  were  sub- 
stantially recognized  by  his  being  selected  as 
agent  and  counsel  for  the  crown  before  the 
commission  created  to  determine  the  true 
boundary  between  the  Uriited  States  and  New 
lirunswick,  and  was  paid  nine  lumdred  and 
si.xty  pounds  sterling  per  annum  for  his  ser- 
vices. As  the  labors  of  this  commission  were 
continued  for  two  years  and  nine  months,  and 
he  was  allowed  to  draw  his  half-pay  as  De|nity 
.Muster  Master-general  during  this  period,  one 
would  suppose  that  he  fared  belter  than  most 
of  his  contemporary  lawyers  in  the  I'rovinee. 
Yet  in  iiis  letters  he  complains  of  poverty, 
aUliougii  lie  liad  managed  to  increase  the  area 
of  land  about  his  dwelling  to  such  an  e.\tent 
that  it  comprised  a  substantial  block.  On  the 
other  hand,  as  in  1.S02,  he  strongly  protested, 
on  behalf  of  himself  and  iiis  brother  practi- 
tioners, against  tlie  passage  of  an  act  which 
increased  the  jurisdiction  of  justices'  courts 
from  tiiree  iiounds  to  five  pounds,  which  de- 
pri\ed  Iaw)er.s  of  costs  under  the  scale  of  the 
Supreme  t,"ourt  wiiere  amounts  to  be  collected 
were  under  the  latter  sum,  it  certainl)-  would 
seem  that  the  practice  of  law  in  New  liruns- 
wick  was  not  tiien  remunerative.  Indeed, 
from  a  statement  in  a  letter  from  Mr.  Chipman 
in  iSt)8,  it  appears  that  his  animal  iurome  did 
not  then  exceed  two  hundred  iiouuds.  In  1806 
he  was  maile  a  Legislative   C(JUUcillor;  and    in 


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i8og,  although  somcwhiit  (lisaiipointL'd  in  not 
hcing  appointed  Cliief  Justice,  he  became  a 
i'uisne  Jiidj;e  of  tlie  Sujuvnie  Couil.  It  is 
a  somewhat  stiikin<;-  tribute  to  iiis  capacity  and 
fidelity  that  lie  was  again  in  1814  emiiloyecl  l)y 
the  crown  in  tiie  sanie  cai)acity  as  l)efore,  and 
appeared  before  tiie  second  commission  to 
settle  the  international  boundary,  under  the 
terms  of  the  treaty  between  Cireat  l?rilain  and 
the  United  States  of  America. 

In  1823  Judge  Chipman,  alleging  as  reasons 
his  aj;e  and  jihysical  inlinnity,  ajiplied  for 
leave  to  retire  from  public  service;  but  before 
any  action  was  taken  upon  his  reciuest  an  event 
occurred  which  directly  affected  his  intentions. 

On  the  27tli  of  March,  in  the  last-mentioned 
year,  Major-,i;cneral  .Smyth,  Lieutenant  (jov- 
ernor  of  New  Urunswick,  after  a  sliort  illness, 
died;  and  on  the  istof  Ajiril  following  a  meet- 
ing of  the  Council  was  held  to  consider  what 
should  be  done  uiider  the  ciicumstances.  The 
lion,  (ieorge  Leonard,  the  senior  member,  was 
not  jiresent ;  but  a  letter  from  him  was  read, 
in  which  he  stated  that,  owing  to  his  age  and 
feebleness,  he  declined  to  act  as  administrator. 
The  lion.  Christopiier  Hillop,  then  in  his 
eighty-si.xth  year,  the  next  in  seniority,  wrote, 
claiming  the  right,  and  summoning  tiie  mem- 
bers to  attend  before  him  at  .St.  John,  but 
failed  to  appear  at  this  meeting,  which  took 
place  at  I*'redericton.  Those  who  were  jires- 
ent,  wliile  not  disputing  this  claim,  came  to 
the  conclusion  that  it  was  necessary  to  act 
promptly,  and,  with  Judge  C'hipman's  concur- 
rence, selected  him,  as  the  senior  member 
jiresent,  to  administer  the  affairs  of  the   I'rov- 


ince.  A  somewhat  li\ely  conflict  ensued  be- 
tween Mr.  Billop  and  the  administrator  tU 
/acfo,  and  prochunat ions  were  issued  by  each; 
but  the  Ihitish  government,  while  acknowledg- 
ing the  right  of  the  former,  declined  to  inter 
fere  with  the  action  of  the  Council. 

Mr.  President  Ciii|iman  presided  at  a  session 
of  the  Legislature,  which  opened  on  the  21st 
of  January,  1824,  when  he  must  have  been 
greatly  gratified,  not  only  on  account  of  his 
personal  honors,  but  from  tiie  f;ict  that  his  son, 
who  subseipiently  distinguished  himself  as 
Chief  Justice  of  New  Brunswick,  was  presented 
for  ap|iroval  as  s[ieaker  of  the  House  of 
Assembly. 

It  is  not  improbable  tliat  the  mental  and 
physical  labors  of  the  last  )ear  of  bis  life  were 
too  great  for  one  who  really  needed  rest;  but, 
be  that  as  it  may,  the  end  came  on  the  9th  of 
h'ebruary  following  his  hajijiy  e.xiierience  last 
mentioned. 

Judge  Chipman  possessed  an  interesting  and 
])leasing  personality  and  abundance  of  natuial 
and  acquired  jxiwers.  Iiis  abilities  were  [ler- 
haps  greater  thaii  his  contemporaries  always 
perceived,  and  grc 'ter  than  posterity,  speciail)' 
at  1 1  acted  by  the  attainments  of  his  iiriliiant  son, 
has  thought   proper,  as  a  rule,  to  concede. 


|j|l)\V,\Rl)  JACK,  lioni  at  St.  Andrews, 
X!I^  N.li.,  April  2S,  1826,  died  Decem- 
ber 31,  1895.  luiward  Jack  was  the  sixth  sini 
of  Da\id  William  Jack,  originally  of  Cujiar- 
I'"ife,  Scotland,  later  of  St.  Andrews,  liy  his 
lirst  wife,  Reiiecca  Russell  \\'3er.      His   father 


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for  many  years  was  Collector  of  Customs  at  St. 
A  ml  rows. 

l-'-dward  Jack  was  educated  at  St.  Andrews, 
but  never  took  a  collegiate  course.  He  studied 
law  and  was  admitted  an  attorney  Octolier  14, 
1847,  and  a  barrister  June  13,  1850.  lieiuf;- 
an  ardent  student  of  nature,  he  shortly  after 
being  admitted  gave  up  the  i)ractice  of  law  and 
became  a  civil  engineer,  and  in  pursuit  of  his 
occupation  gained  an  intimate  knowledge  of 
the  un.settled  i)arts  of  his  native  rrovince,  its 
woods,  streams,  and  minerals,  its  animal  life 
and  its  unbounded  resources,  which  knowledge 
he  endeavored  freely  to  distribute  where  it 
might  do  the  most  good.  His  contributions  to 
the  press  were  highly  esteemed,  and  if  col- 
lected would  fill  many  volumes.  The  follow- 
ing, among  other  subjects,  were  dealt  with 
exhaustively  by  him:  forestry  in  its  various 
branches;  the  mineral  wealth  of  New  Bruns- 
wick, its  development  and  iiossibilities;  the 
protection  of  our  forests  and  the  i)reventinn  of 
forest  fires;  the  crown  lands;  jiractical  chem- 
istry as  beneficial  to  the  huslKUulman  ;  tlie  wild 
animals  of  tbe  forest  and  the  game  fish,  their 
liaunts,  their  habits,  and  their  preservation; 
local  histor)  ,  the  various  Indian  tribes  of 
Noitli  America,  their  origin,  folk  lore,  lege'ul.s, 
and  destiny;  our  university,  and  the  im[)rove- 
nieiit  of  educational  lacilities;  international 
game  protection. 

He  was  the  wiiter  of  a  number  of  lectures 
on  various  subjects,  among  which  tbe  follow- 
ing were  delivered  at  the  .St.  John  Mechanics' 
Institute,  in  their  regular  annual  course,  at 
the  dates   named:  Jaiuiary   29,   18;;,  on  "The 


River  Tobicpie  "  ;  and  on  December  3,  1883, 
upon  "The  Interior  of  New  Hrunswick;  or, 
l""ive  Weeks  in  the  Home  of  the  Moose,  Cari- 
bou, Heaver,  and  Hear."  His  knowledge  of 
woodcraft  and  forestry  were  so  extensive  that 
on  many  occasions' he  was  emidoyed  by  wealthy 
cor[)orations  and  individuals  to  select  tracts  of 
timber  lands  outside  the  limits  of  his  native 
Province  and  he  travelled  for  tiiis  purjjose 
through  several  of  the  .Southern  .States  of 
America.  While  so  em|iloyed  he  was  on  one 
occasion  offered  a  remunerative  position  with 
the  Korestry  De|)artment  at  Washington,  I). C. , 
which  offer  be  declined,  as  its  acce|)tance  in- 
volved a  change  of  his  allegiance.  In  1884  he 
rejiresented  the  Province  of  New  Hiunswick  at 
the  l'"orestry  ICxhibition  at  Ivlinburgh,  while 
there  acting  as  juror  and  receivin;;  as  such  a 
bronze  niedal.  besides  having  made  a  very 
complete  stuily  of  forestry,  be  was  well  versed 
in  mineralogy,  geology,  chemistry,  and  botany. 
In  languages  he  was  master  of  Latin,  Creek, 
French,  and  German,  and  bad  a  lesser  knowl- 
edge of  ltali;ui,  SiKUiish,  Hebrew,  and  the 
languages  of  the  Mic-mac  anil  Maliceet  Ind- 
ians. To  the  native  Indian  be  was  ever  a  kind 
friend  and  protector. 

OfawaiMii  heart  and  kindl\' (iis])osilion,  he 
always  sought  to  help  others,  often  at  the  ex- 
pense of  bis  own  comfort  or  future  prospects, 
on  one  occasion  resigning  a  lucrative  jiosition 
with  the  Crown  Land  Deiiartment  of  New 
Hiunswick  in  favor  of  a  younger  brother,  who 
was  the  father  of  a  family  and  then  withonl 
means  of  support.  In  his  later  years  he  nr.ide 
l-'redericton  his  home,  where  he  lived   in  com- 


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parative  lotiiciiK'nt.  On  taking  up  a  bot'k  of 
his  upon  "Hcrkc'lcy,"  by  A.  Campbell  I'rascr, 
i.L.  1).,  shortly  after  bis  dcatb,  tiie  writer 
tiiund  underseorcd  by  him  the  following  pas- 
sages, which  ai)tly  describe  his  disposition  and 
tcniperameiit : 

"1  am  not  in  love  with  feasts  and  crowds 
and  \isits  and  late  hours  and  strange  faces  and 
a  hurry  of  affairs,  often  insignificant.  I*'or  my 
private  satisfaction  I  had  rather  be  master  of 
my  own  time  than  wear  a  diadem. 

"The  evening  of  life  1  choose  to  pass  in  a 
(jiiict  retreat.  Ambitious  projects,  intrigues, 
and  iiuarreLs  of  statesmen  are  things  I  have 
formerly  been  amu.sed  with;  but  no\'.  they 
seem  to  be  a  vain  fugitive  dream." 

Mr.  Jack  was  never  married.  In  bis  later 
)ears,  being  a  total  abstainer,  be  took  a  warm 
interest  in  any  legislation  baving  the  promo- 
tion of  the  cause  of  total  abstinence  in  view. 
J''or  many  years  prior  to  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  an  J'"lder  of  St.  Paul's  Presby- 
terian Church  at  b'redericton.  A  man  of  pro- 
found religious  belief,  he  met  his  end  calmly 
and  fearlessly,  going  tlown  into  the  valley  of 
the  shadow  of  death  in  the  sure  and  certain 
bo[)e  of  a  glorious  resunect ion. 


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A\II:L  \V.  AIcCORMICK,  proprietor 
J,  .  of  the  X'ictoria  Hotel,  .St.  John,  was 
born  in  .St.  Stephen,  N.H.,  Septem- 
ber 4,  1.S30,  .son  of  John  and  Ann  (Trafton) 
McCormick.  The  father  was  a  native  of  Gla.s- 
gow,  .Scotland.  When  fourteen  years  old  he 
came  to    New    Hrunswick,    and    resided    upon 


a  farm  near  St.  Stephen  with  his  uncle  until 
his  uncle's  decease.  Inheriting  his  uncle's 
property,  he  was  engaged  in  general  farming 
for  the  rest  of  his  active  years,  and  also  cairied 
on  Unnbering  operations  upon  the  .St.  Croix 
River,  lie  married  Aiui  Trafton,  daughter 
of  Joseph  Trafton,  a  nati\e  of  Massacliusetts. 
Nine  chililren  were  born  of  this  union,  and 
eight  of  them  grew  to  maturity,  Daniel  W., 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  being  the  eldest  son. 
'The  father  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-four  years, 
and  the  mother  at  seventy-si.\. 

Daniel  \V.  McCormick  resided  at  the  parental 
home  until  si.xteen  years  old,  when  he  was 
apiirenticed  to  a  millwright,  and  learned  the 
trade,  lie  fidlowed  it  as  a  journeyman  in 
New  Hrunswick  some  six  years,  at  the  expira- 
tion of  which  time  he  went  to  Minnesota,  and 
was  engaged  in  the  same  occuiiation  until  the 
breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War,  when  he  enlisted 
in  Company  A,  iMghth  Regiment  Minnesota 
Volunteer  Infantrw  .\fter  serving  one  year 
in  (pielling  Indian  disturbances  upon  the  fron- 
tier, his  regiment  joined  the  Army  of  the  'Ten- 
nessee. He  later  went  to  North  Carolina, 
where  he  remained  until  a  shoit  time  pre\ioiis 
to  the  close  of  hostilities,  and  was  i)resent  at 
Lee's  surrender  at  Ajipomatto.x,  Va. ,  in  1865. 
Returning  shortly  to  New  Hrunswick,  he  re- 
sided upon  the  home  farm  about  two  years,  and 
then  located  in  .St.  .Stephen,  where  for  the  ne.xt 
live  years  he  was  engaged  in  the  livery  busi- 
ness. Leasing  the  Watson  House,  he  en- 
tered the  hotel  business,  and  carried  on  that 
hostelry  until  the  spring  of   1877,  when  it  was 


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loss,  lie  ,sub.sc(|iKiitly  Icasiil  ilio  Nchcmiali 
Marks  property,  which  he  named  Queen 
Hotel,  anil  conilucted  it  until  the  jjassage  of 
the  Scott  Act  in  1S79,  when  he  closed  tlie 
house,  and,  con)ing  to  St.  John,  opened  tlie 
New  X'ictoria  Hotel.  This  property  he  .sold 
.some  lour  years  later,  but,  retaining  the  name, 
apiilied  it  to  another  house  on  Prince  William 
Street;  and,  disposing  of  tliat  property,  minus 
the  name,  he  in  1S1S7  leased  and  remodelled 
the  Waverley  House,  which,  under  tlie  name 
of  Tile  Victoria,  he  has  made  extremely  popu- 
lar with  the  travelling  public. 

In  June,  I.S74,  ]\Ir.  !\IcC(irmici<  was  joined 
in  marriage  with  Mrs.  .Sarah  A.  Rudge  liail- 
lett,  daugiiter  of  William  Rudge.  She  wa.s 
boui  in  ICiigland,  and  came  to  this  country 
when  eight  years  old.  The  ciiildren  of  this 
union  arc  I'annic  11.  and  Nellie  R. 

Mr.  McCfnniick  belongs  to  the  Masonic 
order.  He  is  vice-[)resident  of  the  .St.  Jolni 
l''.xhil)ilion  Association,  holds  the  same  office 
in  the  Victuallers'  Association,  is  a  treasurer 
<if  ijie  'i'ourists'  .Association,  and  a  member  of 
tlie  Horticultural  and  Park  Associations. 


f7?)T^^^-   WIl.l.l.XM    PUGSLl'A',  D.C.I  ., 

barrister  <if  .St.  John,  a  former 
Speaker  of  tlie  New  Hnniswick  Leg- 
islature, is  a  native  of  this  Province.  His 
father,  William  Pugsley,  .Sr.,  was  a  [irosperous 
farmer  residing  in  Susse.x,  where  he  owned  one 
of  the  most  fertile  farms  in  New  Urunswick. 

His  first  American  ancestor  on  the  paternal 
side  emigrated  from  lui},land,  and   was  one  of 


the  earliest  .settlers  on  Croton  River,  N.Y. 
His  great-grandfather,  John  I'ugsley,  who  was  a 
Loyalist,  remo\ed  to  New  Hrunswick  after  the 
close  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  settled  on 
tiie  Hammond  River  in  Kings  County.  He 
later  returned  to  New  \'ork,  and  sui)se(|ueiitly 
went  to  I'jigland.  Daniel  I'ugsley,  son  of 
John,  and  father  of  AViHiam,  Sr.,  settled  in 
Card  well.  Kings  County.  * 

William  Pugsley,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
began  his  education  in  the  common  schools 
of  Sussex,  ant!  pursued  his  college  course  at 
the  University  of  New  Brunswick,  where  he 
was^a  highly  successful  .student.  He  re- 
ceived a  golil  medal  ihniiig  his  junior  year; 
and  tlie  (iilcbrist  scholarshijis,  which  were 
f(iundeil  by  donations  of  a  wealthy  and  eccen- 
tric Scottisli  (iiictor,  being  tluown  open  to  com- 
petition in  the  Provinces  at  tiiis  time,  he  se- 
cured a  second  place  in  the  list  of  competitors. 
He  graduated  with  the  degree  of  liachelor  of 
Arts  in  iSr^S.  Hcginning  the  study  of  law 
shortly  after  his  graduation,  Mr.  Pugsley  was 
adiritlecl  to  the  Bar  June  27,  1S72,  and  subsc- 
tpiently  aiipointed  reiiorter  and  editor  of  tlie 
decisions  of  the  Supreme  Court  ///  iuiiuo, 
which  position  he  held  for  ten  years.  As  a 
lawyer  Mr.  Pugsley  enjoys  a  large  and  lucra- 
tive practice. 

In  politics  lie  is  an  Independent.  He  is 
actively  interested  in  the  ]iolitical  affairs  of 
the  Province,  and  in  July,  iiS85,  was  elected 
to  the  Provincial  Assembly,  a  vacancy  having 
been  created  by  the  death  of  Dr.  N'ail,  M.  D. 
Heat  once  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  debates 
of  the   House,    ami,    on   March  3,   1SS7,  being 


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considered  well  versed  in  i):irliamentary  jjfo- 
cedure,  he  was  iiii.aniinously  eleeteil  Speaker. 
I  lis  wide  kno\vled;;e  of  law  and  aei|iiaintance 
witii  the  personnel  ol  ilie  House,  iiis  unfailin;.,' 
tact,  j;ood  judgment,  and  sureness  of  decision, 
admirably  fitted  him  for  this  position,  whicii 
he  filled  with  marked  ability  and  to  the  satis- 
faction of  all  parties.  He  retains  his  early 
lo\e  for  scbohnl)-  jjinsuits  and  associations, 
and  received  tlie  de{,'ree  of  I).  CI,,  tr'im  {be 
University  of  New  lirunswick. 

On  January  6,  \Sy6,  Dr.  I'uj^sley  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Fannie  I'arks,  daugntev 
of  Thomas  I'arks,  deceased,  fornieil)'  a  promi- 
nent merchant  of  St  John. 


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A\TD  C.  D.WVSOX,  superintendent 
of  the  Secontl  l>istrict,  Fasteni  Di- 
vision, of  tlie  Western  Union  I'ele- 
};rai)h  Company  at  St.  John,  was  born  in 
Gloucester  County,  New  Ihunswick,  Marcli  lo, 
I.S50,  a  son  of  James,  and  Mary  A.  (Cidlins) 
Dawson.  His  ])aternal  grandfatlier  was  Rich- 
ard Dawson,  who  came  to  New  lirunswick 
from  Ireland  among  the  early  settlers.  Rich- 
ard was  a  farmer,  and  lie  also  operated  a 
grindstone  ipiarry.  lie  lived  to  about  ninety 
years  of  age,  Ijavin^  'icen  the  father  of  a  large 
family. 

James  Dawson,  born  in  Gloucester  Coimty, 
New  Brunswick,  in  1815,  was  the  eldest  son 
of  his  parents,  ilc  spent  his  earl\'  life  on  his 
father's  farm,  hut  subse(|uent ly  leaiiied  the 
carpenter's  trade,  whiih  he  followed  thereafter 
as  his  sole  occupation.      His  death  occurred   in 


189.S.  His  wife,  Mary,  was  the  only  daughter 
of  the  late  David  Collins,  o£  St.  John.  They 
were  the  parents  of  three  children,  namely: 
David  C. ,  the  eldest;  J.  Arthur,  who  resides 
in  St,  John  ;  and  Jane,  who  also  is  a  resident 
of  .St.  John.  The  mother  died  November  25, 
1S77. 

David  C.  Dawson  was  leared  in  his  nati\e 
citv  of  .St.  John,  and  recei\ed  his  education  in 
the  public  schools.  On  June  19,  1865,  he  be 
gan  to  work  for  the  American  Telegraph  Coni- 
[lany  as  a  messenger,  which  position  he  held 
one  year.  He  was  then  promoted  to  the  posi- 
tion of  clerk.  About  a  vear  later  the  company 
was  merged  into  the  Western  I'nion  Telegraph 
Comjjany,  and  iMr.  Dawson  was  for  a  time 
clerk  of  this  company  in  their  .St.  John  office. 
Transferred  then  to  the  office  of  the  superin- 
tendent, he  dischaiged  the  duties  of  chief  clerk 
until  1884,  when  he  was  given  the  management 
of  the  company's  office  in  Halifa.v,  where  he 
remained  imtil  189J.  U|)on  the  death  of  Su- 
perintendent R.  T.  Clinch,  Mr.  Dawson  was 
recalled  to  St.  J(}hn  and  |iriimoted  to  the  posi- 
tion of  superintendent,  whiih  he  still  holds. 

He  was  married  in  January,  1882,  to  1'" ranees, 
daughter  of  the  late  John  Dawson,  f<irmerly  of 
I'rince  Fdwaid  Island.  Mrs.  1"" ranees  Dawson 
died  in  May,  1895.  Ir,  religion  Mr.  Dawson 
is  a  Methodist. 


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father,  a  native  of  Hurton,  Siinbury  County, 
N.H. ,  born  in  1790,  was  the  youngest  son  of 
Gabriel  De  Veber,  High  Sheriff  of  that 
county.  Gabriel  and  his  father,  Colonel 
Gabriel  De  Veber,  during  the  American  Rev- 
olution fought  for  the  crown  against  the  re- 
volted colonists.  Upon  the  latter  achieving 
their  iiuk'ijendence,  the  two  De  Vebers  came 
to  New  Brunswick  with  the  Loyalists,  and 
settled  in  Sunbury  County.  Colonel  De 
Veber  was  twice  married,  the  line  of  descent 
to  the  subject  of  this  sketch  being  through  his 
first  wife,  whose  maiden  name  is  not  now 
known.  He  lived  to  the  advanced  age  of 
nearly  ninety  years.  Sheriff  Gabriel  De 
Veber  was  granted  a  large  tract  of  land  for 
his  services  in  the  army.  He  married  Mar- 
garet Hubbard,  whose  family  were  fugitive 
Loyalists  from  the  New  iMigland  colonies,  and 
they  were  the  parents  of  four  children,  as  fol- 
lows: Gabriel,  of  whom  there  is  no  special 
mention;  Nathaniel  Hubbard,  who  was  High 
Sheriff  of  Oueens  County,  and  who  lived  to 
a  great  age;  William  l".dwin  Nelson,  who  for 
many  years  was  a  prospennis  merchant  and 
ship-owner  of  St.  John;  and  Leverett  Hubbard, 
father  of  William  H.  De  Veber. 

Leverett  Hniibard  De  Veber  at  the  age  of 
fifteen  years  went  to  .St.  John,  where  he  be- 
came clerk  for  a  Mr.  James  Codner,  a  wine 
merchant,  and  was  subscciuently  in  business 
f(M-  himself  with  Richard  .Sands.  Later  he 
severed  his  coniicition  witii  the  latter  gentle- 
man, and  conducted  a  mercantile  antl  banking 
business  for  many  years,  at  first  alone  and 
subsequently  being  associated   with  his  sons, 


who  succeeded  him  in  the  business.  He  mar- 
ried May  14,  1818,  Margaret  Ann,  a  daughter 
of  William  Hubbard,  Iv.sq.,  of  Hurton,  and 
their  children  were  as  follows:  Richard  .S. , 
born  ]''ebruary  26,  1819,  a  successor  of  his 
father  to  the  hitter's  business,  who  died  in 
May,  1888;  Nelson,  born  in  November,  1821, 
a  barrister  of  .St.  John,  who  died  in  1854; 
Gabriella,  who  became  the  wife  of  (labriel  De 
Veber,  son  of  the  Sheriff  of  (Jueens  County 
and  a  barrister  of  Gagetown;  William  Hub- 
bard, whose  name  begins  this  article; 
I>everett  Hubbard,  born  in  November,  1825, 
at  one  time  a  farmer,  who  went  to  Australia, 
but  who,  subsequently  returning,  spent  the 
rest  of  his  life  in  his  father's  office;  George 
Canning,  born  in  1827,  who  was  educated  at 
King's  College,  Fredericton,  took  part  in  the 
Crimean  War,  studied  medicine  in  .Scotland, 
and  returning  to  St.  John  entered  his  father's 
office,  where  he  remained  until  his  death;  J.  S. 
Holes,  born  in  1829,  who  was  a  merchant,  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  De  Veber  &  .Sons  and 
a  member  of  the  Dominion  I'arliament;  Mary 
Holes,  born  in  1S31,  who  is  the  widow  of  R.  1'. 
Starr;  Dudley  Woodbridge,  who  died  in  in- 
fancy in  1833;  and  Nathaniel  Clarke,  who 
also  died  in  infancy.  The  father  of  these  chil- 
dren, 1-everett  H.  De  Veber,  was  a  magistrate 
for  many  years.  He  was  church  warden  of 
Trinity  Church,  afterward  St.  John's  (.Stone) 
Church.  His  death  occurred  I'ebruary  12, 
1876.      His  wile  died  in  November,   1866. 

William  Hubbard  De  Veber  obtained  his 
elementary  education  in  the  grammar  school 
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June,  1S39,  he  matriculated  at  King's  College, 
P'retiericton,  where  after  the  regular  course 
of  four  years'  study  he  took  his  degree  in 
June,  1843.  Then,  returning  to  St.  John,  he 
was  there  licensed  as  lay  reader  by  the 
Rev.  Archtleacon  Costor,  Kcclesiastical  Com- 
missary, and  assigned  to  the  parish  of 
Simonds  under  Canon  Harrison,  where  he 
remained  two  years,  or  until  the  arrival  of 
15ishop  Medley  in  June,  1845,  when  the  late 
James  Disbrow  was  appointed  as  rector.  He 
was  ordained  Deacon  by  Hisho[)  Medley  in 
St.  Ann's  Chapel,  I'redericton,  May  30, 
1847.  On  September  24,  1848,  he  was 
ordained  priest  and  soon  after  appointed  mis- 
sionary at  Upiiani,  Kings  County,  and  St. 
Martins.  lie  performed  arduous  service  in 
this  capacity  for  eleven  years  or  until  Sep- 
tember, ;859.  Then,  at  the  request  of  the 
parishioners  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Portland, 
he  was  apiiointed  rector  of  that  parish  by  tiie 
bishop,  bis  predecessor  having  been  the  Rev. 
Dr.  l.ee.  subseq;iently  rector  at  l-'redericton. 
'!'lie  ciuirch  at  St.  I'aul's  had  been  erected 
some  years  previously,  and  endoweil  by  the 
late  Cjiief  Justice  Chipman.  In  1868  the 
church,  which  had  been  in  use  until  that  date, 
was  abandoned,  and  the  .s'-hool-house  was 
licensed,  the  regular  services  of  the  parish 
being  continued  there  until  .August,  1871. 
JJuring  this  time  the  present  church  was 
erected,  and  consecrated  August  16,  1871,  by 
Hi'^hop  Medley,  there  being  i)resent  at  the 
consecration  nearly  all  the  clergy  of  the  di'  >  'se 
and  many  from  Nova  .Scotia  and  from  the 
Uniteil   .States.      On  the  day  of  ilic  consecra- 


tion Mishop  Medley  appointed  him  a  canon  of 
Christ's  Church  Cathedral,  Frcdcricton,  and 
he  remained  there  until  his  retirement  on  ac- 
count ot  ill  health  in  October,  1893,  after  a 
period  of  service  of  thirty-four  years. 

Canon  l)e  Veber  was  married  September 
26,  1854,  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Paddock,  a  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  Dr.  Thomas  I'addock,  of  St. 
John.  ller  father  was  a  son  of  Dr.  Adino 
Paddock,  who  came  to  New  Hrunswick  with 
the  Loyalists;  and  her  mother  was  in  maiden- 
hood a  Miss  McLellan,  of  Portland,  Me.  Of 
this  union  there  were  five  children,  of  whom 
three  are  now  deceased,  namely:  Arthur  W., 
born  June  24,  185^),  who  died  in  May,  i860; 
Herbert,  born  in  1859,  and  one,  the  young- 
est, who  (lied  in  infancy.  The  two  living 
are:  William  Herbert  and  Alleyne  Wood- 
bridge,  the  latter  born  December  19,  1865. 
William  Herbert  De  V^eber,  who  was  born 
August  27,  1862,  uKirried  Harriet  M.,  daugh- 
tei  of  the  Rev.  Richard  Mathers,  of  the 
Wiggins  Or|)han  Institution,  and  has  two  chil- 
dren—  Herbert  Alleyne  and  Doris.  He  re- 
sides at  lower  Woodstock. 


HARl.MS  I',  Kl\Ni:Ak,  a  retired 
merchant  of  St.  John,  X.  H.,  was  born 
in  that  city,  March  31,  1830,  son 
of  Harrison  (i.  and  Maria  Kinnear.  His 
father  was  born  in  New  Hnmswick,  .Septem- 
ber, 179S,  and  his  mother  was  born  in  West- 
morland County,  New  Hrunswick,  in  1803. 
His  paternal  grandfather,  Andrew  Kinnear, 
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I'rovincc,  toward  the  end  o(  the  last  century. 
He  reared  a  lar<;c  family,  Harrison  G. ,  above 
mentioned,  being  the  youngest  son. 

Harrison  Ir.  Kinnear  came  to  St.  John  in 
1829,  and  was  en^^a.i^ed  in  mercantile  business 
here  for  the  rest  of  his  life,  which  terminatetl 
in  1850.  lie  was  the  father  of  nine  chil- 
dren, namely:  U.  Hoyd,  born  in  1822,  who 
died  in  iSC^C'-.  Anna  M.,  born  in  1823,  who 
died  in  1893;  iielen  K. ,  born  in  1826,  who 
died  in  1 897 ;  John  II.,  born  in  1828,  who 
died  in  1892;  Charles  I'',  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  lunily  I.  and  Isabella  1^.,  twins,  born 
in  1832,  who  are  still  living;  Mary  L.,  born 
in  1837,  who  died  in  1844:  and  another  son 
who  died  in  infancy.  Mrs.  Kinnear  died  in 
1887. 

Charles  I'.  Kinnear  was  educated  in  St. 
John.  His  early  business  training  was  ob- 
tained in  his  father's  store,  and  in  1849  he 
entered  the  em|)loy  of  another  merchant,  with 
whom  he  remained  eight  years.  Starting  in 
business  for  himself  in  1858,  and  joining  his 
hrotiier,  Joiin  11.,  in  i  S60,  he  conilucted  with 
him  a  profitable  mercantile  enterprise  for  many 
years,  or  until  his  retirement  in  1890. 

In  1859  Mr.  Kinnear  was  married  to  Mar- 
garet M.  I.ansdowne,  i  native  of  St.  John, 
daughter  of  Thomas  I.ansdowne,  who  was  at 
one  time  .Sheriff  of  Kent  County,  New  Bruns- 
wick. Their  children  are:  Margaret  M.  ; 
I'"li/a  \'..,  wife  of  tiie  Rev.  lulwin  Daniel,  of 
I'ort  Hope,  Ont.  ;  Harrison,  a  resident  of  .St. 
Joim ;  Charles  A.,  wlm  resides  in  London, 
Out.:   and    I'Tank    A.,  it    tiiis  city. 

As  a  business  man    .Mr.  Kiiuiear  gained  the 


confidence  of  his  associates  by  his  strict  ad- 
herence to  ujiright  [irinciples,  and  as  a  citizen 
he  is  highly  esteemed  for  his  many  conunend- 
able  (|ualities.  He  belongs  to  the  Church  of 
ICngland,  and  has  served  as  warden,  vestry- 
man, and  superintendent  of  tiie  .Sunday-sehools 
of  .St.  Joim's  and  Trinity  Churches. 


(^\  HOMAS  WILLIAM  koliiXSOX, 
Qjf  warehouseman.  St.  John,  was  burn  in 
this  cit\-,  January  12,  1843,  son  of  James  S. 
and  Elizabeth  (Meiritt)  Robinson.  He  is  a 
great-grandson  of  Patrick  Robinson,  the 
founder  of  the  family  in  New  Brunswick,  who 
was  born  in  Londonderry,  Ireland,  came  to 
America  with  the  British  army,  and  serv<'d  in 
the  Revolutionar)-  War.  In  1783  I'atiiek 
Robinson  came  to  New  Brunswick  with  the 
L<iyalists,  residing  at  Parrtown,  now  .St. 
John,  for  a  short  time,  and  moving  from  there 
to  (_)ueens  Count)'.  He  was  a  tailor,  and  fol- 
lowed his  trade  during  the  active  peri<id  of  his 
life.  He  and  his  wife,  Sarah,  reaied  a  familv 
of  seven  ehildien,  three  sons  and  four  daugh- 
ters, namelv  :  Charles;  James;  William; 
.Sarah;  Rebecca,  who  became  Mrs.  Hhuhs; 
Mrs.  .Alger;  and  Mrs.  Albright. 

Chailes  Riibinsiin,  the  next  in  the  ancestral 
line,  a  Lniner  by  occupation,  was  a  native  of 
(Jueens  County.  He  married,  June  2,  1802, 
Mary  .Sutter,  who  was  born  on  .Staten  Island, 
.September  10,  1782,  daughter  of  James  Sutter, 
a  .Sciitchman,  who  lanie  to  New  Ibimsuiek 
with  the  Loyalists.  ICight  children  were  the 
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Charles,  John,  Mar<;aict,  Mary,  Sarah,  and 
Rebecca.  Marj^aret  iiiarriLtl  Gcorye  Corey, 
Mary  became  tlie  wile  of  Tlinmas  Masciii, 
Sarali  married  Coles  Car])eiitor,  and  Rebecca 
died  yoiin^.  Charles  Robinson  was  born  No- 
vember 13,  1780.  lie  died  November  17, 
1.S64,  at  the  a^c  of  eij;hty  I'luir  years.  'I'jie 
wife,  Mary  .Sutter  Robinson,  died  March  i, 
1 868,  in  her  eif;hty-sixth  year. 

James  Sutter  Robinson,  .son  of  Charles  and 
father  of  'I'homas  \V. ,  was  born  in  (jueens 
County.  When  a  \ounij  man  he  left  the  home 
farm,  and  after  trading  on  the  river  for  a  time 
came  to  .St.  John,  where,  with  his  brother 
Thomas,  he  established  a  mercantile  business 
on  South  Wharf,  subsec|ucntly  moving  from 
there  to  North  Slip.  They  were  amoii};'  tlie 
largest  dealers  in  West  Imlia  gnutls  in  the 
Province,  and  were  also  jirominently  identilied 
with  the  shipjiing  interests.  In  1828  he  mar- 
rijil  Miss  Mlizabcth  Merritt,  daugiiter  of  Cil- 
bert  l\oi)iiisiin  Merritt.  Tiiey  had  a  family  of 
nine  children;  Charles  C. ,  Giliiert  .M.,  John 
J.,  James  I..,  Thomas  William,  Robert  .S., 
Mary,  l-llizabeth,  and  one  daughter  wiio  died 
in  infancy.  Charles  C.  Robinson,  who  was  a 
sea  captain,  married  .Sarah  A.  ]'"airweather, 
and  died  in  1868,  leaving  eight  children, 
(iilhert  M.,  an  accountant,  married  Lucy 
W.  .\.  .\)niar,  and  had  two  children,  lie 
dietl  in  1866.  John  J.  was  a  seafaring  man, 
and  died  in  iSCtj.  James  1,.  married  I'lli/a- 
beth   C'urran,  and   resides   in    lioston.      Robert 


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The  father  died  in  1872.  The  mother  died 
January  9,  1889,  at  liie  age  of  eighty-two 
years.  Thomas  W.  Robin.soii  was  educated  in 
the  public  schocds  of  .St.  John.  After  the 
death  of  his  father  he  engaged  in  the  ware- 
house business,  in  which  he  has  continued  ever 
since. 

November  19,  1S6C,  Mr.  Robinson  was 
joiiH'd  in  marriage  with  Miss  .Sarah  J.  I'stey, 
daughter  of  '  miuel  U.  I^stey,  of  .St.  John. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robinson  have  had  ten  children, 
and  have  been  bereft  of  four — ^Thomas,  Frank, 
Mabel,  and  an  infant.  The  six  now  living 
are:  lulith,  Ciilbert  M.,  J.etitia,  I'llizabeth, 
I'Lthel,  and  Jennie. 


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TT^ll.XRl.l'.S  MILI.IsR,  lime  and  lumber 
I  J|        manufacturer,    .St.    John,     N.  R. ,     was 

^^  "^  born  in  llollis,  York  County,  Me., 
April  14,  1858,  son  of  Henry  Usher  and 
Sarah  Klizabeth  (Merry)  Miller.  His  paternal 
grand|iareiits  were  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Wood- 
man) Miller,  the  former  of  whom  was  a  pros- 
jierous  lunilierman  of  lIollls,  and  tlie  maternal 
grandfatiier  was  Colonel  Josiah  Herry,  of  Hu.\- 
ton,  Me. 

When  a  young  man  Henry  Usher  Miller 
assisted  his  father  in  carrying  on  lumbering 
operations.  .Soon  after  iiis  majority  he  went  to 
Mllswortli,  Me.,  where  he  was  for  a  time  asso- 
ciated with  his  brother,  Nathaniel  J.,  in  the 
same  business;  and  he  was  later  in  partneisiiip 
with  (ieorge  Ciray  in  lumherin<r  at  Chanicook. 


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wilii  C.  1'".  Woodman,  establisbed  tlie  well- 
known  firm  of  Miller  &  Woodman,  witii  which 
he  was  as.sociated  for  tlie  rest  of  his  life.  He 
died  May  15,  1.S97.  He  married  in  1848 
Sarah  Mlizal)cth  Herr).  'I'iiey  liad  throe  sons, 
namely:  James;  Charles,  the  suljjeet  of  this 
.sketch;  and  Harry. 

Charles  Miller  was  nine  years  (dtl  when  liis 
parents  removed  to  St.  John.  After  ac(|iiiring 
his  elemeiitaiy  education  he  attended  the  acad- 
emy in  Sackviile,  N.l!.,  and  his  studies  were 
comideted  in  l'"redericton.  His  first  industrial 
undertaking  was  the  establishment  of  tlie  lime 
burning  business,  w^hich  he  is  still  carrying  on. 
In  1891  he  engaged  in  sawing  shingles,  and 
since  1894  he  has  manufactured  all  kinds  of 
domestic  lumber  on  cpiite  a  large  scale.  His 
business  ability  is  extremely  beneficial  to  the 
city,  and  personally  lie  is  highly  esteemed  for 
liis  upright  character. 

In  1883  Mr.  Miller  was  united  in  marriage 
with  ^liss  Helen  Tapley,  daughter  of  x'\rchi- 
liald  Tapley,  of  Indiantown,  and  a  representa- 
tive of  a  higlil)'  reputable  family,  whose  an- 
cestors were  I.oyalist.s.  Mr.  and  ?tlrs.  Miller 
have  three  sons — Henry  Usher,  (leorge  T., 
and  I'raiik  I..  Miller. 


k()R'r!lKUl'.  'riie  numerous  braiulies 
)f  tliis  family  in  New  Brunswick  are 
-'  all  descendants  of  Jose|)h  Northrup, 
who  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Milford, 
Conn.,  in  iC),i9,  coming  probably  from  Voik- 
.shire,   luiglaiul. 

Josei)ii     Noithrui)     (first),     married     Mary, 


daughter  of  Krancis  Norton,  Jr.  In  January, 
1642,  he  united  with  the  l-'irst  Church  in  Mil- 
ford.  At  his  death,  September  i  i,  1669,  he 
left  eight  children,  four  of  whom  were  sons, 
named  resi)ectively  .Samuel,  Jeremiah,  John, 
and  Joseph. 

Tlie  youngest  son,  Joseph  (second),  baptized 
August  9,  1(149,  died  in  1700,  leaving  four 
children.      His  wife's  name  is  not  known. 

Jose|)h  (thirii),  eldest  son  of  Jose|ili  ajjove 
mentioned,  was  baptized  in  (Jctober,  1689. 
He  settled  in  Ridgelield,  Conn.  He  married 
.Susannah  Roberts,  November  20,  171,1,  IkuI  a 
family  of  seven  children,  and  died  at  tlie  age 
of  eighty-four  years  in  1773. 

His  third  child,  hili,  was  born  May  i,  1718. 
His  wife,  Abigail,  whom  he  married  on  Janu- 
'")■  3,    '7.i9.  bore  him  si.\  children. 

Henajah,  liftii  ciiild  of  V.W  and  Aiiigail 
Norlhnip,  was  liorn  March  27,  1752.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah  Keeler.  Accompanied  by  his  family, 
he  moved  to  New  Hrunswick  in  1783  with  the 
Loyalists,  of  wiiom  he  was  one.  He  settled  in 
Maugcrviiie,  Simiiury  County,  on  tlie  St.  John 
River.  The  higii  freshets  the  ne.\t  sjiring 
caused  them  to  remove  to  the  hills  at  Kings- 
ton, Kings  County,  where  he  secured  lot  num- 
ber six,  fronting  on  Kingston  Creek  (then 
called  Portage  Co\e).  His  first  wife,  .Saraii, 
died  July  17,  1812,  ami  he  was  married  again 
on  l'"ebruary  24,  18 14,  to  Rachel  I'"owler.  On 
May  17,  1838,  he  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-si.\ 
years,  leaving  fourteen  children,  one  hundred 
and  eighteen  grandchildren,  and  one  hundred 
and  eleven  great-grandchildren.  His  sons 
were:  Zadock,  (iamaliel,  William,  first,  Will- 


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iam,    second,    John    A.,    VM,     Ik'njamin     K., 
James  'itur^'cs,  and  David. 

llis  ciglith  son,  James  Stui;;cs  Xortlmip, 
was  born  at  Kingston,  September  i,  1795- 
lie  married  Susanna  Cox  on  January  8,  iSiS. 
lie  lived  on  the  homestead,  and  died  Novem- 
ber 25,  I1SC5,  at  the  age  of  seventy,  leaving 
ten  children.  The  sons  were:  ]'".li  .S. ,  James 
!•;.,  Daniel  D.,  I'hilo  A.,  Walter  \V. ,  Harvey 
11.,  William  H.  These  sons  all  married, 
and  each  had  a  family. 

Daniel  D.  Northnip,  fourth  son  of  James 
S.  and  Susanna  Xorthrup,  was  born  .August  30, 
1S27.  lie  married  llaiuiah  .S.  Whiting  (of 
Loyalist  descent)  on  Jannai)'  S',  1.S52.  They 
are  both  living  at  this  date,  antl  also  nine  of 
their  children,  who  numbered  eleven  in  all. 
The  sons  were  Herbert  1^.  W.,  Charles  V.., 
Isaac  II.,  Horace  K. 

Herbert  ]■'..  W.  Xorthrup,  eldest  son  of 
Daniel  D.  and  Hannah  S.  Northrup,  was  born 
August  23,  it>55,  in  Kingston,  Kings  Count). 
In  iS/iS  he  removed  to  .St.  John,  N.li. ,  and 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business  on  South 
Wharf.      He  died  June    iS,  1894. 

Isaac  11.,  the  tliird  son  of  Daniel  D.  and 
Hannah  S.  Northrup,  went  to  .St.  John,  N.  H. , 
from  Kingston,  Kings  County,  in  188,1,  and 
engaged  as  clerk  with  his  hrothei',  Herbert 
v..  \V.  In  1893  he  succeeded  him  in  the  gio- 
cery  business  on  South  Wharf.  He  has  built 
up  a  trade  of  large  and  -onstantly  increasing 
iragnitnde  b\'  industry,  integrity,  a  thorough 
knowk'dge  of  the  iec|uirements  nf  the  markets, 
and  by  giving  his  personal  attention  to  every 
branch  of  his  business  in  its  minutest  details. 


No  one  questions  but  that  his  future  will  be 
not  only  successful  but  creditable  to  himself 
antl  the  city. 


AJOR  JOHN  W'ARD  was  born  in 
I'eekskill,  Westchester  County, 
N.Y.,  in  1752.  He  was  fourth 
in  descent  f'om  Andrew,  fifth  son  of  Richard 
Ward,  of  (lorleston,  .Suffolk,  ICngland,  who 
came  to  America  in  1632.  Major  Ward's 
father  owned  an  extensive  jiroperty  on  the 
Hudson  River.  He  was  a  stanch  adherent 
of  the  crown  during  the  Revolutionary  War, 
hut  was  precluded  by  age  from  taking  an  active 
part  therein. 

On  the  outbreak  of  hostilities  John  Ward 
and  three  brothers  —  Moses,  Henjaniin,  and 
William  —  joined  the  "Loyal  /Xmerican  Regi- 
ment," John  with  the  rank  of  Lieutenant, 
Moses  with  that  of  ICnsign,  and  William  as  a 
private.  During  the  war  John  was  frcc|uently 
in  action,  and  on  one  occasion,  when  storming 
the  American  entrenchments,  was  sc\erely 
wounded. 

He  had  a  friendly  intimacy  with  the  unfort- 
unate Major  Andre;  and,  when  Andre  went 
U[)  the  Hudson  in  the  "N'ultuie, "  sloop  (it  war, 
on  his  ill-fated  mission  to  (ieneral  lienedict 
.Arnold,  Lieutenant  Ward  was  in  command  of 
the  escort  that  accomjianied  him. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  war  he  came  to 
I'arrtown,  miw  .St.  John,  N.li.,  in  tharge  of 
the  rear  guard  of  the  regiment  and  the  women 
and  children,  with  the  brevet  rank  of  Major. 
They    landed    at    the    Barrack     Point,    Lower 


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Cove;  and,  no  accommodations  beinj;  provided 
for  tlicni  in  the  way  of  buildings,  they  passed 
the  winter  in  canvas  tents,  thatched  with 
spruce  bouyhs.  'I'he  winter  was  rigorous; 
and,  owin^  to  want  of  proper  shelter  and  jirojier 
food  and  clothinj;',  many  men,  sick  and  debili- 
tated from  wounds,  and  many  women  and  chil- 
dren died.  Major  Ward's  son,  Juiin  Ward, 
Jr.,  was  born  in  a  lent  on  the  iStb  of  Decem- 
ber,  17S3. 

Major  Ward  removed  to  Sussex  X'alley  in 
the  sprin-,'  of  1784,  and  settled  at  Ward's 
Creek,  which  was  named  after  him;  luit  be 
remained  only  a  short  time,  returninf^  to  .St. 
John  in  I7<S5.  His  brother  Moses,  who  was 
in  I'Jigland,  came  to  St.  John;  and  they  en- 
tered into  a  business  partner.ship.  I'liey  were 
pioneers  in  the  West  India  trade,  wiiicli 
brought  so  much  prosperity  to  .St.  John  in  the 
early  days  of  the  city.  Moses  returned  to  the 
States;  and  the  Maj(jr  associated  with  himself 
his  sons,  Caleb,  Joim  Ward,  Jr.,  and  Cliarles, 
under  the  firm  name  of  John  Ward  &  .Sons, 
long  and  honorably  known  in  .St.  John. 

With  the  Hon.  Hugh  Jolniston,  he  put  the 
first  steamboat  on  the  St.  Joim  River,  the 
"(ieneral  .Smyth,"  this  being  tiie  original 
steamboat  to  make  tlu'  trip  to  h'rcdericton, 
May  10,  1S16.  She  w.is  followed  by  the 
"John  Ward"  and  "St.  Cieorge.  "  Major 
Ward  retained  his  interest  in  military  matters, 
.and  until  his  resignation  in  1S16  was  in  sole 
command  of  the  .St.  John  city  and  counts- 
mil  it  ia. 

In  1809,  iSif),  and  1S19,  he  reiiresented 
the  county  of  St.  John  in  the  House  of  Assem- 


bly; and  his  name  stood  first  in  the  commis- 
sion of  the  peace  for  the  city  and  count)-. 

He  was  married  in  I'eekskill  early  in  life 
to  Elizabeth  .Strang,  who  was  fourth  in  descent 
from  D.niiel  Strang  and  Charlotte  Hubert,  his 
wife,  who  came  to  America  from  Havre, 
1'" ranee,  in  16S0.  His  famil)'  consisted  of 
fmir  sons — Caleb,  John,  William,  and  Cliarles 
—  and  two  daughters  —  I'^liza  and  ICsther. 
V.W/.a  was  married  to  I^arton  I'ouletl  Wallop, 
son  of  the  Hon.  and  Rev.  Marton  Wallop  and 
grandson  of  the  Marl  of  Portsmouth.  I'lsther 
died  unmarried. 

The  following  estimate  of  Major  Ward's 
character,  contained  in  a  letter  written  to  him 
by  so  distinguished  a  man  as  .Sir  Iloward 
Douglas,  w-ill  be  a  fitting  close  of  this  brief 
aci'ount  of  hi>  long  and  eventful  career  :^ — • 

I5(;kK1;N    SlRKKT,  I.dNlHlN, 

June  2<),  1S4J. 

J/r  ifiuir  .SV>-.  -()l)servins;  willi  srcat  ploasurL'  your 
respected  name  at  the  head  of  sijjTiatures  attaclied  to 
the  very  uratifyiiif;  achhess  which  I  lately  had  tlie  hcinor 
to  receive  from  the  city  of  -St.  Joliii   .  .  . 

1  aiUlress  you.  my  dear  Sir.  iiid-vidiially  as  tlie  l-'ather 
of  the  interestiiiL;.  im|)ortanl.  ami  loyal  I'rovime  with 
wliich  it  was  my  happiness  to  be  loiij;  iiuimately  con- 
nected and  in  which  I  shall  feel  ever  deeply  interested. 
Well  m.iy  I  e.\|)ress  these  sentiments  to  you.  lor  you  are 
a  personilication  of  that  staunch  loyalty  which  has  ever 
distinfjuished  .\ew  I'lrunswick,  a  successful  prosecutor 
of  that  industry  and  those  commercial  pursuits  wliich 
have  formed  New  lirtniswick  to  an  improved  condi- 
tion .  .  . 

.\nd  with  greatest  respect  for  you  i)ersonally.  my  dear 
Sir.  and  for  your  character,  I  may  most  safely  and 
appropriately  embody  in  this  letter  all  I  would  say  of 
re.spect  and  attachment  to  those  whose  names  arc  a.s.so- 


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t'iated  witli  yours  in  the  address  wliicli  conveys  to  me 
and  mine   the  very  aj^reeahle   assurances  that  you  and 
those  whom  we  so  faithfully  recollect  do  iu)l  forget  us. 
lielieve  me.  my  dear  Sir, 

Nours  most  sini  erely, 

lldWAUl)    |)()1<,I,AS. 

Major  Ward  died  at  his  resilience,  eorncr  (if 
Kin;;  and  (iennain  Streets,  November  5,  1846, 
in  tlie  ninety  lourtli  year  of  his  a<;e.  The 
following  is  tlie  conclusion  of  an  obituary 
notice  iJubJished  at  the  time: 

"Thus,  full  of  years  and  honors,  has  de- 
jiarted  one  who  has  led  an  iad)lemished  life, 
anil  who  carries  with  him  to  the  ^rave  the 
highest  esteem  and  nxist  profoimd  resjiect  of 
the  connnunity,  to  whom  his  noble  and  vener- 
ai)le  appearance,  bis  strict  integrity,  and  ami- 
able disposition  ba\ebeen  lou';  familiar." 


§()liN  .S.  CLIMti  a  retired  business 
man  of  .St.  John,  vvas  born  in  Helston, 
Cornwall,  I'lngland,  July  1.),  iS^i,  ^^on 
of  bibn  .Saunders  and  Amelia  Cliino.  lie 
served  an  apprenticeship  of  seven  years  at  the 
printer's  trade  in  I'enzance,  later  became  fore- 
man ol  the'  (d'lice,  and  subsecpiently  was  em- 
ployed for  a  short  tinu'  on  llu'  Mtiiiihii^  /\i.\f, 
London.  in  iSrij;  he  emigrated  to  .\nierica, 
and,  settling  in  St.  John,  entered  the  employ 
of  J.  &  A.  MciMillan,  with  whom  he  re- 
mained four  years.  At  the  e.\|iiration  of  that 
time  be  established  himself  in  the  photograph 
business,  which  he  cairied  on  with  pros|ierous 
results  for  thirty-<ine  jears,  when  he  retired 
and  was  succeeded  by  his  son.     lie  had  learned 


(laguerreotyping  as  an  amateur  in  the  ok! 
country,  and  through  bis  own  personal  efforts 
became  luuisually  skilful  during  the  long 
perioii  he  was  in  business  in  this  city,  lie  is 
also  an  artist  of  ability  in  landscape  painting, 
and  was  when  he  retired  proprietor  of  the  lead- 
ing ait  gallery  in  .St.  John. 

In  1854  IMr.  C'limo  was  joined  in  man  iage 
with  Miss  Mary  .\mi  Daniel,  daughter  of  Caj)- 
tain  Daniel,  of  Ding  Dong  Mine,  Cornwall. 
They  have  had  seven  childion  -  Clara,  Ada, 
Harold,  Cora,  Kelsie,  Charles  Howard,  and 
Lillie.  Clara  is  the  widow  of  Warren  Angc- 
vine  and  has  foiu'  children.  Ada  married 
Alexander  Robinson,  of  .St.  John,  now  of  Vait- 
couver,  and  has  three  sons.  Harold,  who  suc- 
ceeded his  father  in  business,  married  Mllen 
Travis  and  has  two  sons  and  four  daughters. 
Cora  is  the  wife  of  (ieorge  Travis,  also  of 
Vancouver,  and  has  one  son  and  one  daughter. 
Kelsie  married  I'rank  Alward,  of  this  city, 
and  has  one  daughter.  Charles  Howard  CI  into 
learned  photography  with  his  father,  and  is 
now  in  the  business  in  llalif.ix,  \.  .S.  lie  mar- 
ried Dai.sy  llannay,  of  St.  John,  and  has  one 
child.  I.illie  married  (Kto  Reineke,  of  St. 
John. 

Mr.  Clinx)  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
Independent  Order  of  t)dd  b'ellows.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Church  of  luigland.  Politi- 
cally, be  is  a  I-iberal ;  and  he  has  written 
many  able  articles  in  favor  (d  iiis  paity.  He  is 
also  the  author  of  |ioems  which,  as  printed  in 
till'  local  press  of  .St.  John,  have  been  much  ad- 
mired for  their  versatility  and  sympathetic  \ein. 

Mr.  Climu  attributes  bis  unusual  success  as 


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a  pliotographcr  solely  to  tlic  iininovcd  li;;lit- 
in^f  (if  Ills  ]iiirti:iits,  whicii  ho  lias  rcdiicucl  Id 
a  science,  being,  as  he  claims,  entirety  original 
in  liis  theory  ami  jiractice  of  so  placing  Ins 
subject  that  no  false  lights  are  allowed  to  mix 
with  and  disfigure  tlie  proper  shadows  of  a 
picture.  Noticing  the  failure  in  this  respect 
of  artists  who  use  a  top  light  only,  and  of 
others  who  used  a  side  light,  but  rarely  ol;"cd 
the  subject  in  the  best  position  as  regai  111 

and  sluide,  lie  devetopeti  a  system  wliic  ....-iC^ 
follows  the  method  of  the  sun  in  lighting 
iiatuii',  and  thus  secures  perfect  likenesses, 


(sTl  ( )11N  f.  Fl'IRGUSOX,  excise  oHkcr  ami 
food  inspector,  St.  John,  was  iiorn  in 
I'ortlaiid,  N.li. ,  .May  4,  1S42,  son  of 
I'hilip  and  Catiierine  (McKenna)  Ferguson. 
His  father  was  born  in  Duhliu,  Ireland,  'n  iSi^; 
and  his  grandfather,  Patrick  Charles  l''eiguson, 
was  the  son  of  a  .Scotchman,  who  held  a  com- 
mission in  the  Hrili.sh  army.  Patrick  Charles 
I'V'iguson  came  to  New  Hrunswick  when  his 
son  I'liilij)  was  a  child,  and  here  followed  his 
jirofession  of  ci\il  engineer  for  the  rest  ol  his 
life.  He  was  drowned  while  surveying  land 
bordering  uiion  the  river. 

riiilii)  l'"erguson,  John  C.  l'"ergus(>ii's  father, 
was  hroughl  up  in  St.  }"\\u.  When  a  young 
man  be  engaged  in  the  lumber  trade,  and  in 
connection  with  that  employment  he  carried  on 
the  shipping  business  until  his  deatii,  which 
occurred  in  1S5S.  He  was  active  in  his  en- 
deavors to  impiiive  the  moral  atmosphere  ol  the 
community,  and  took  a  special    interest    in   the 


tem|)eraiice  cause.      His  wife,    Catheriiu',  who 
w.is   born    in   Truagli,   county    Monaghan,    lie- 
land,  daughter  of  'rereiice   McKenna,  came  to 
this  country  at  the  age  of  si.\teen  years  to  live 
with  an  aunt.     .She  became  the  mother  of  five 
children;    namel\',    John    C. ,    I'hilip,    Agnes, 
Annie  i\.,  and  Mary.      Joiiii  C.  is  the  subject 
of  this  sketch.      His  jiersonal   history  is  given 
■:  '"W.      I'hilip  is  a  sea  captain.      Agnes  mar- 
.  .11     mics  Gcrow,  of  St.  Joiin,  and   .Mary  died 
at  the    ge  of  aliout  biur  years.      Mrs.  Catherine 
l""erguson  died  in  1.S96,  aged  eighty-two  years. 
John  C  l''erguson  went  to  live  in  the  coun- 
try  when    he   was   a    year    old,    and    remained 
there  about   se\'en   years.      His  education   was 
ac(|uired  umlei'  the  direction   of  Messrs.  Mgan, 
Campbell,    and   Duval.      When   thirteen   years 
old  he  began  to  serve  an  apprenticeshii)  of  five 
years  at  the  carriage  painter's  trade,  which  he 
followed    for    ten    years,    first    with    Crolhcis, 
I'rice,     &     .Shaw,     and     later     with     Price     & 
.Shaw.       Coing    into    mercantile    business    on 
.South  Wharf  in   1867,  he  was  sul)sec|uenll\'  as- 
sociated    with    James     V..     .Masters,    and    lost 
lieavil\-    in    the    contlagrat  ion     of    1S77.        He 
afterward  conducted  business  alone  until   1.SS5, 
when  he  made  a  tour  of  the  Western  .States  and 
visited  many  of  the  large  cities.      In    1887  he 
accepted  an  appointment  in  the  governmc'iit  ser- 
vice as  assistant   to  John    X.   Moore.      He  was 
later  transferred  to  his  present  department  and 
advanced  to  the   position   of  excise  officer  anil 
food  inspector.      In  1872  he  was  a  member  of  a 
delegation  sent  to  ( )ttawa  for  the  purpose  of  ad- 
justing  some   important    railroad   matters,    and 
has  ])erformetl  similar  tliity  in  other  directions. 


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lie  sc'ivt'd  as  an  AhKrman  liom  1S71  to  I.S7.S, 
ami  as  I )i'|)iity-May()r  lor  two  years. 

.  .  .  Mr.  I'"i'ri,^iis()i)  was  i-niinccted  with  IIil- 
viiliintecr  nuiveniL'iit  at  its  iiucption.  lie 
served  liir  a  time  as  a  nuinlier  n(  the  I'liiue  nl 
Wales  Hattery  el  Artillery  in  St.  Jnlni,  llealsd 
nave  atteiiti(ii)  to  literary  matters,  ediilrihiitinj; 
ti)  periixlieals  ami  ac(|uirii)n  con.sideraMc  ri'|iii- 
latiiii)  as  a  leetiirer,  having  in'i'upied  the  plat- 
liirm  ill  variipiis  (it  iis  in  till'  .Maritime  I'mviiiees 
dealing  with  liisli,  I'leneh,  and  nther  liistnri<al 
sni)jeets. 

iJurinj;  the  days  ul  winiden  shi|)s  Mr.  I''er- 
{{uson  invested  largely  in  that  class  ol  property, 
haviiij;,  with  nthers,  hiiilt  vaiioiis  kinds  cil 
\essels   in    \ii\a    .Seotia  and    New  Hrnnswiek. 

Mr.  l''ergiisiin  is  aeti\ely  inti'rested  in  vari- 
ous social  and  charitable  organizations,  having 
been  treasurer  of  tln'  Irish  I'liendK  .Society 
tor  ten  years,  and  jiresident  of  the  counts 
organization  of  the  Ancient  ( >r<lcr  of  lliber- 
iiians.  lie  is  also  a  member  of  the  Iri.sh 
Literary  and  Henevolent  .Society,  and  was  for 
a  number  of  years  vice-president  of  the  .St. 
Malachi    Total  .Xbstinence  .Society. 


ri';i'iii;.\  h.  imsrix,*  banister,  ..f 

.St.  John,  was  born  in  iliat  cil\',  l)i'- 
cember  jC>,  iS'lj,  son  of  Thonias  and 
(leorgianna  (Thompson)  Hustin.  It  is  said 
that  his  p.ilernal  ancestors  were  .Normans,  and 
entered  T'.ngland  in  the  train  of  William  the 
t'onqueror,  some  settling  in  the  north  and 
some  in  tiie  southcin  |iart  of  the  coimtry. 

Among  the  earliest  pnjgenitors  of  the  family 


in  America  was  'Thomas  llu-^lin,  who  was  bom 
in  North  Candina  in  174,^  lie  had  a  brother 
whose  given  name  is  not  now  known,  who  re- 
sided in  \'irginia  both  before  and  after  the 
KeV(dutionar\' W.M.  'Tboni.is  liustin  served  an 
apprenticeship  to  his  ste|)  biotbcr,  Christopher 
liird,  a  builder  ol  Ni'w  N'ork.  In  bis  early 
youth  he  owned  a  sla\e  letl  to  him  by  bis 
father.  'The  slave,  who  was  \cry  fond  of  his 
littli'  master,  and  was  hired  out  tor  his  benctit, 
was  accidentally  drowned.  .Shortly  aftci  the 
beginning  of  hostilities  in  the  Uev(dut ionary 
War,  'Thomas  liustin  joined  the  royal  army  in 
New  ^'ork  under  (ieiieral  Hiirgoyne.  <  )n  one 
occasion,  while  he  wa>  in  tlu'  general's  tent, 
a  shell  came  through  the  canv.is.  lie  was 
considerably  frightened;  but,  the  fuse  going 
<iut,  the  general  laughingly  said,  "Wi-  will 
take  him  prisoner."  While  in  .\i\v  N'ork  Mr. 
Hnslin  boari'cd  with  a  .Mr.  Kelly.  ( )n  July 
17,  178^,  after  the  fcutune  of  war  bad  declared 
in  favor  of  the  ,\meriians,  .Mr.  liustin,  accom- 
jianied  by  Mr.  Kelly,  lelt  for  St.  John,  N.li., 
coming  in  the  second  convoy  lleet  in  a  ship 
named  "  The  .'-^o\ereign, "  commandi'd  by  Cap- 
tain Murray.  He  si!bse(|uently  boarded  at  Mr. 
Kelly's  house,  a  log  house  on  the  south-east 
corner  of  I'rincess  and  Charlotte  Streets,  .St. 
John,  until  hismairiage,  .Septt'inlier  i(1,  17.S5. 
Mr.  liustin  built  himsi'll  a  small  house  on 
Charlotte  Street,  on  a  lot  below  what  is  now 
called  liustin's  Cornci'.  This  lot  be  left  at 
his  death  to  his  son  James.  The  original 
house  was  (lestro\ed  in  the  gieat  lire  of  Jinie 
20,  1877.  Ml',  liustin  lixed  to  the  ad\anced 
age  of  ninety  years.      Ills  wife  survived   him. 


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(lyiii^  at  tlif  vciKialili-  aj;c  nl  iiiiu'ty  live  years, 
at  till"  hmisi-  of  their  (laiif{lUer,  Min.  Jnhii 
II  imlii'it,  oil  the  cast  side  of  Kiii^  Square. 
I'rovioiis  t«i  his  death  tiicy  resided  lor  some 
years  witli  tlieir  son  Samuel,  in  a  house  on 
I'rineess  Slrei't,  on  tht'  lot  ulieie  now  stands 
the  residence  of  l)i.  Thomas  Walker.  Their 
iliilihin  were  eif;iit  in  number,  seven  hein^ 
S(nis;  namely,  Williani  II.,  Thomas,  (ieor^a-, 
Jtenjamin,  Jaeoh,  Sainnei,  James,  ami  Kehecea. 

Thomas  Ihistin,  Jr.,  married  IClin'ir  Mimroe 
and  had  six  ehildun:  Marj,'ari't,  still  li\iny  in 
1899,  who  married  John  Hunter;  John; 
(ieorjie;  William;  J'di/.al)eth,  who  married 
Cajitaiii  William  Thomas;  and  Thomas. 
(lenrge  ISiislin  married  a  Miss  Mary  N'enninj,-. 
Itenjamin  Unstin  died  in  Ni'W  \dik,  and  is 
supposed  to  have  been  poisoned.  John  Hustin 
went  to  the  United  States,  where  he  marrieil. 
SanuK'l  l^ustin  married  I\Iar!.;aret  \alon,  an<l 
they  lell  no  ihililren.  James  Hustin  married 
Mary  .Ann  lirenl,  step-(lau,i;hter  ol  Mr.  I. ami). 
Rebecca  Hustin  became  the  wife  of  John  Hum- 
bert, and  like  her  mother  attained  the  :iL;e  of 
ninety-five  years. 

William  11.  Ihistiii,  the  son  who  is  the  ne.\t 
in  line  of  descent  to  the  direct  subject  of  this 
sketch,  married  Aynes  Wilson,  daughter  of 
(ieorj^e  Wilson,  a  native  of  the  Highlands  of 
.Scotland.  'They  weie  bereft  of  two  boys,  who 
died  when  \eiy  youni;,  and  they  brou};ht  ii|) 
ei^ht  sons  and  two  dau|;hters ;  namely,  Jane, 
Jienjamin,  \\'illi,tm  Hermon,  ('ieorj;e  V..,  Sam- 
uel J.,  Huf^b,  Rebecca,  Thomas,  Charles,  and 
Robert.  'The  survivors  of  the  family  in  1899 
aie:  William  H.,  now  in  bis  eij^hty-sixth  year 


and  a  resident  ol  W.itertown,  Mass.;  Ilii^h, 
now  in  his  sevent) -ninth  \iai,  a  residen;  'if 
.St.  John;  Reheica,  now  in  her  sevi'iity  'onrth 
year,  a  resident  of  St.  John;  Thomas,  now  in 
his  seventy-third  year,  who  resides  ii\  St. 
John;  Charles  H.,  now  in  his  seventy-sei-ond 
year,  and  Robert,  now  in  his  si\ty  tilth  yiar, 
who  also  reside  in  St.  John. 

Thomas  Austin,  son  of  William  II.  and 
;\|;nes  Hustin,  was  born  in  St.  John,  .N.li., 
-Marih  17,  iSjIj.  Commencing;  in  early  )i>utb, 
he  woiked  ei;;ht  \ears  in  .S.  1\.  T'oster's  shoe 
store.  Subse(|uently  he  went  to  the  I'nited 
.States,  and  was  employed  in  the  harness  shop  of 
his  brother,  W.  II.  Hustin,  in  lioston  lor  seven 
years.  Returning  to  .St.  John,  be  started  in 
the  provision  business,  but  in  1854  was  seized 
by  the  cholera,  which  swept  over  St.  John  in 
Jime  of  that  year.  After  a  year's  siikness  he 
went  to  sea  with  bis  brotbei-.  Captain  H.  Ji. 
Hustin,  rcmainiu!;  with  him  tour  years,  dminj;' 
whitb  time  be  visited  I.iverpo(jl,  London, 
Jamaica,  Australia,  .St.  Helena,  Madras,  and 
C"alcutta.  L'pon  his  retmii  home  he  opened 
a  grocery  store,  and  after  selliiif^  out  this  busi- 
ness he  was  employed  for  some  time  in  the 
Stephen  Hrimdage  &  Lordly  furnitme  store. 
Ill  i8f3fi  he  accepted  a  position  in  the  custom- 
house at  St.  John.  He  was  Alderman  for  the 
city  of  St.  John  for  the  years  1863  and  1866. 
He  is  a  Mason  and  a  mendiei-  of  the  .Sons  of 
Temperance.  He  is  also  connected  by  mem 
bership  with  the  Methodist  church.  On  March 
13,  i8(jj,  he  married  Cie(ir<;ianna  'Thompson, 
daughter  of  Michael  Thompson,  the  ceremony 
bein^'  performed  b)-  tlie  Rev.  Mr.  Murras.      He 


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iKis  had  ei!;lU  cliildicii,  all  born  in  St.  Jolm 
and  all  liviny  sn.vc  (inc.  Their  record  is 
briefly  as  follows:  Stephen  Uli/ard,  born  De- 
cember 26,   1S62;  Koa  Louise,  born   I'ebrnary 

14.  i'SG5;  (.'h.auitte  isabelle,  born  December 
I  ^,  1S6.S,  who  married  Norman  1  liitciiinson  ; 
Thomas  Howard,  bcvn  N(.venii)er  I,   1S70,  who 

(lied  (if  dipht.icria  in  IH/S;  Caroline  C'reij;h- 
ton,  bf.rn  l'"el.iiary  25,  1S74;  Hester  Zaidce, 
born   Ma)    6,    1SS3;  and   (lladys,  born  January 

15,  iSS;. 

Stejihen  Hlizard  Huslin,  I'lc  eldest  son  c'. 
'IT.  Mi^is  slu(ii(.'d  law  two  years  witli  C.  A. 
Stockton,  but  was  compelled  t(^  al\uuion  his 
studies  on  account  ol  ill  health.  He  then 
worked  a  year  f(  '•  R.  I'.  McGivern,  coal  mer- 
chant, and  sui)si,'|uentl\'  for  a  ^imilai  lcui;th  of 
time  in  tiie  ofrice  •:!  the  I\uly  Sun.  Seckiuij; 
to  recover  Ins  iie:!'!|i,  lie  went  to  sea  lor  two 
years  ii.  the  \i'ssels  ol  an  uncle,  1'.  R.  C'reij^h- 
ton,  (lurinp;  whic'i  time  he  touched  at  lialti- 
morc,  Rotterdam,  New  \\^xV,  1  .iwrpool,  Rio 
de  Janeiro,  .San  I''rai:,'isco,  and  Amsterdam. 
I'pon  returning;  !o  St.  John  he  stndii'd  !;;«  ,or 
one  \ear  in  the  ilTice  ol  V..  'I'.  (  .  Kiu^wles, 
i^s(|.,  ,{11(1  suhse(iuently  loi-  one  )car  .\ith  Dr. 
A.  A.  .Stockton  and  t(<r  two  years  witli  Dr.  .S. 
.ilward.  He  w.l^  ■h.iittcd  as  .m  attorney-,\t- 
law  ioi  New  \\\-\y  ■.  <  in  1.S8S,  and  at  once 
openi  '  M  office  in  -St.  John.  He  was  admitted 
as  barrister-, it-law  in  i.S.S(j.  ( )n  May  1.  i.'-i(;5, 
he  took  ii'to  copai'iiici  siiip  J.  Josenh  I'ortcr, 
ban  istci-at-hiw,  under  '.he  linn  nanu  of  Hustin 
&  i'ortcr;  and  the  liini  now  has  an  exi client 
clientaf;c. 

Mr.   Hustin    was   v^rricd    Ivme   .51),    I'S'j^,  to 


Miss  Charlotte  I..  IJarlow,  daughter  of  Thomas 
H.  Harlow,  builder.  They  have  two  children  : 
a  daut;hter,  l'"rances,  born  May  10,  18(^4;  and 
a  son,  born  July  1,  iS(j.S,  named  Howard  Har- 
low. Mr.  Hustin  is  identified  by  membership 
with  the  Indeiiendent  O'dcr  of  Odd  ]'"ellows, 
tl'j  Orangemen,  Clan  Mackenzie.  Canadian 
Order  of  l'"orcsters,  the  Natural  Histor)'  .So- 
ciety, and  tlu'  Neptune  Riiwiiij;-  Club.  In 
relifrion  be  is  a  Methodist. 


D\VAkI)  W'lI.I.IS,  a  former  I'ostmaster 
if  .St.  John,  N.  H.,  was  born  Novem- 
ber 5,  1S35,  at  Halifa.x,  .N..S.,  his  jiarcnts 
bein^' John  and  Dorothy  (I.c  Roi)  Willis.  In 
the  national  and  j;ramm;'i'  schools  of  llalifa.\ 
lie  a^iuircd  tiu'  rudiments  of  knowlc(lj;e  wliiih 
he  largely  su|)plcmcnted  by  ])rivale  stud\. 
The  f^reater  [lait  of  bis  life  was  sjient  in  the 
newspaper  business,  at  which  he  was  verv  suc- 
cessful and  by  means  of  whic'.i  he  was  widch 
known.  In  coiKhictiiit;  a  io.niial  he  was  emi- 
nently successful,  and,  hvin;;  a  forcible  and 
\igorous  writer,  was  able  to  record  himself 
with  i;rcat  ability  and  c'lcarncss.  lie  also  took 
an  actise  part  in  political  matlers,  and  was  ■". 
member  of  the  Legislative  As^clllld\  ficin 
iS"2to  iSSj.  In  religion  he  >vas  an  -\.'^;li 
can  and  a  mcnihci  of  .St.  James'  Church,  S;. 
John,  N.H. ,  in  which  he  held  the  oHic  es  of 
chun.'h  warden  .nid  ,  upci  intcndcnt  of  tlu  Sab 
batii-school.  lle\  -i  married  in  iS;S  to  Sarah 
Ada.  s,  dau;;hter  of  I'ccliaiiab  and  Mary  Chap- 
ma''  .Adams,  ''."heir  famil\  lonsisted  of  three 
daughters  and  five  sons. 


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His  son,  ]•].  l.L'  Rdi  Willis,  of  whdiii  ;i  pm- 
trait  appears  on  a  i)cij;hboiiii,!^  P^gi^  "f  t'li'' 
vnliinie,  is  woll  known  to  the  travelling  public 
as  a  [irom incut  hotcl-kccjicr,  having  been  for 
a  number  of  years  proprietor  of  the  Hotel 
Dufferin,  St.  John.  He  is  now  located  at 
Sydney,  Cape  lireton  County,  X.S. ,  where  he 
is  conducting  a  hotel.  Pos-sessed  of  much  of 
his  father's  ability  and  of  a  jileasant  and  genial 
disposition,  he  is  widely  popular,  and  his  suc- 
cess in  life  is  practically  assured. 


I^l-yrj'.R  CAMl'lUa.L,*  a  well-known 
^"^  business  man  of  .St.  John,  dealer  in 
stoves  antl  other  heating  apiiaratus, 
also  in  jilumbing,  was  born  in  this  city,  1S42, 
son  of  Peter,  Sr.,  and  Ami  (l)ouglas)  Campbell. 
His  jiarents  were  natives  of  Perthshire,  Scot- 
land, and  his  father  was  born  in  1.S12.  His 
grandparents  were  John  and  Margaret  (Mc- 
Laren) Campbell,  the  former  of  whom  died  in 
early  manhood,  leaving  three  small  children  to 
the  care  of  their  mother,  who  laboreil  dili- 
gently and  faithfully  to  lear  them  in  a  way 
that  would  enable  them  to  begin  life  fo|-  them- 
selves in  an  advantageous  manner,  'i'he  sons, 
i'cter,  Sr.,  and  John,  completed  the  shipsmith's 
trade  in  Dundee;  and  Peter,  Sr.,  who  came  to 
New  lirunswick  fust,  was  afterward  followed 
b\'  John,  his  sister  Jeanette,  and  his  mother. 
I'hc  latter  was  a  sister  of  the  'ate  Pelei  -Mc- 
Laren, who  came  to  St.  John  in  iS;;,  and  en- 
gaged in  the  business  of  a  .-ihiiismilh.  I'eter 
McLaren  died  in  1X64,  \\r  was  the  father  of 
three  ihildren,  namely:  Johr,    Robertson,    who 


dii.'d  at  the  age  of  thirt\-three ;  Jane,  who  mar- 
lied  John  ('am])bcll;  and  Jeanette,  who  mar- 
ried, and  died  in  1890.  Peter,  .Sr. ,  and  John 
Campbell  were  in  the  employ  of  their  uncle 
until  his  retirement  in  1S42,  when  they  suc- 
ceeded him  in  business,  under  the  lirni  name 
of  P.  &  J.  Campbell.  Their  shops  on  North 
Street  were  burned  in  1849;  and,  moving  to 
the  LTnion  Street  dock,  they  carried  on  an  e.\- 
tensi\e  business  in  ship-iron  work.  They 
later  removed  to  the  site  now  occupied  by  the 
electric  light  station,  and  remained  there  until 
retiring  from  business  in  1.SS7. 

John  Campbell  is  still  living,  antl  resides 
upon  a  farm  in  l?loomfield.  He  married  his 
cousin,  Jane  IVIcI.aren,  and   has   four   children 

John  A.,  Peter  ]•'.,  Jane,  and  lunma.  Peter 
1"^  Cam|)bell  is  a  llorisl  on  Dock  .Street,  .St. 
John. 

i'e'cr  t'amphell,  .Sr.,  was  in  his  ea.iy  years 
a  member  of  a  .Scotch  military  company.  He 
was  prominentl)  identilied  with  the  .St.  An- 
drew's Society,  and  belonged  to  the  Deacons' 
Court  of  .St.  James'  Church.  His  death  oc- 
curri'd  in  1896.  He  married  Ann  Douglas, 
a  native  of  Perthshiic  and  a  daughter  of 
Robert  Douglas.  Her  father  emigrated  with 
his  family  to  St.  John  in  1817,  and  was  en- 
gaged in  farming  here  for  the  rest  of  his  active 
period.  11  is  childien  were:  Daniel,  John, 
Robert,  Lllen,  Jane,  M;ny,  and  .Ann,  ot  whon, 
the  ouK' one  living  is  Robert.  Jolin  Douglas 
died  in  1854,  and  Daniel  live<l  to  be  ninct\- 
one  years  old.  I'eter,  Sr.,  and  .\un  Campbell 
were  the  parents  of  foui'  ihildri'u  :  John  ;  Peter, 
tlie  suh'v'ct  of  this   sketch;   Robert;  and    Mar- 


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j;:iiet.  John,  who  was  born  in  1839,  was  a 
riilway  postal  clerk;  and  his  deatli  was  caused 
by  a  railway  accident  at  Kinj^nian,  Me.,  in 
1SS9.  He  married  Isabella,  daui;bler  nf  John 
Smith,  and  left  four  ihildrcn  -  -  Robert,  Aj;nes, 
Jeancttc,  and  Margaret.  Robert  Campbell, 
sen  of  I'eter,  Sr. ,  is  business  manager  for 
Douglas  &  Co.,  llalifa.N.  He  married  Jean 
Rogs,  and  has  foiu'  sons.  Margaret,  who  mar- 
ried James  Rogs,  <if  .Muncton,  X.H. ,  died  in 
Se|)tendjer,  1S9S,  leaving  two  sons—  William 
C.  and  Douglas  Rogs.  The  mother  dieil  in 
ISSS. 

The  Campbell  biotbers  were  schoolmati's  of 
the  lion.  Alexaiuler  McDonald,  and  during  the 
hitter's  \Msit  to  St.  John  they  had  an  opportu- 
nity of  recalling  many  pleasant  recollections 
of  their  boyhood  days. 

I'eter  Campbell,  -^on  of  I'eler,  .Sr. ,  and  die 
principal  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  educated 
under  the  direction  of  Mr.  ]\Iills.  Trior  to 
his  si.\teenth  biitbday  he  began  bis  appren- 
ticeship with  his  father;  and,  after  serving  '"ve 
and  one-half  _\eai"S.  be  entered  the  office  of  tlie 
fniii,  wheri'  be  was  employed  as  an  accountant 
until  1S75.  The  succeeding  year  was  spent  in 
visiting  the  old  country;  and  upon  bis  retain 
he  entered  the  employ  of  James  Ilaiiis  &  Co., 
with  whom  be  remained  a  yeai",  and  then  be- 
came a  member  of  the  lirm  of  JJowes,  Campbell 
&  I'-llis.  That  coricern  was  succeeded  by 
Cam]ibell  &  bdlis:  and  sinci'  the  death  of  the 
latter,  which  o(  cuired  in  iS.S.S,  Mr.  C"am])bell 
has  carried  on  the  business  alone.  liebandK's 
stoves,  ranges,  steam  d  hot-air  heaters,  ami 
kindred   articles,    has    an    extensive    jihunbing 


establishment,  and  is  carrying  on  a  thriving 
business.  In  1.S68,  in  New  York,  Mr.  Camp- 
bell was  united  in  marriage  with  Maigaret  K. 
Ileiny,  who  was  boin  in  rertbsbirc,  Scotland, 
daughter  of  William  lbiii\.  Mr.  and  Mis. 
Campbell  have  four  children;  namely,  Jessie 
A.,  Margaret,  William  II.,  and  Grace.  Will- 
iam 11.   is  in  business  with  his  father. 

Mr.  Campbell  is  an  advanceil  Mason,  ,1  mem- 
ber of  the  .St.  iXndrew's  .Societ)',  and  was  for- 
merly a  Captain  in  the  militia.  He  is  a 
member  and  an  olficial  of  St.  .Stephen's 
t'luirch. 


;s5t^'-''^I-\'I  .f'  ANDHRSON,  Collector  ..f 
Customs  at  Sackville,  X.H.,  was  born 
in  that  town,  October  7,  1S34.  Me  is 
a  f.ou  of  the  late  James  ^Anderson  and  grand- 
son of  Thomas  .Anderson,  the  second.  b'uitber 
ancestral  history  may  be  found  in  connection 
with  the  sketch  of  his  cousin.  Captain  Thomas 
R.  Anderson,  on  another  jiage  of  this  woik. 

James  Anderson  was  born  in  .Sackville  in 
iSoi,  and  was  earh'  trained  to  habits  ol  in- 
dustry and  tbiift.  Selecting  farming  as  an 
occupation,  he  bought  land  wdvai  a  young  man; 
a.nil  in  bis  earnest  efforts  to  improve  a  good 
homestead  I."  met  witli  deserved  success,  and 
became  one  of  the  leading  agricnltnrists  ol  his 
day.  He  was  a  I.ibeial  in  politics,  and  for 
several  years  ])i  ior  to  bis  death,  in  1869. 
served  as  Mi-gistrate.  His  wife,  .\nna  I'ini^- 
ley,  daughter  of  .\green  Tingley,  sur\i\ed  him 
several  years,  dying  in  1S77,  aged  seventy- 
three  years.  Uoth  were  active  members  of  the 
l<a])tist  church,  of  which   be  was   Deacon   for  a 


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lonj;-  time.  They  were  llie  pnieiits  of  five 
children,  of  whcmi  lluee  are  living'  —  'I'lioni.is, 
Josiah  J.,  and  Zeney. 

Josiah  J.  Anderson  was  educated  at  Mount 
Allison  Academy  in  Sackvillo,  and  he  suh- 
sei|uently  lauj;ht  school  a  number  of  years 
in  tills  \icinity.  Tiien,  tiirnini;  liis  attention 
to  tiie  (lursuit  of  aj;rieulture,  to  which  he  had 
been  bred,  he  assnmetl  the  nianaj;ement  of  the 
paternal  homestead,  on  which  he  now  resides 
and  JKis  since  been  prosperously  ongaj;ed  in 
tillint;'  the  soil.  Taixing  an  intellij;ent  inter- 
es*^  in  the  leadinj;  cpiestions  of  the  day,  Mr. 
Anderson  occu]iies  a  jiosition  of  considerable 
prominence  in  iiul)lic  affairs,  and  has  given 
e.Ncellent  .service  to  bis  fellow-townsmen  in 
various  offices.  I''or  a  number  of  years  he  has 
been  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  at  various  times 
was  Assessor  of  Rates  of  the  parish,  besides 
which  he  has  ser\ecl  as  \'aluator  of  the  County 
of  Westmoreland  for  a  number  of  years.  lie 
was  elected  by  the  parish  of  Sackville  as  one  of 
the  first  Municipal  Council  in  the  county  el 
Westmoreland.  lie  is  at  jiiesent  a  School 
'i'rustee  and  a  member  of  the  I'rovincial  Hoard  ol 
i\,nricultnre,  also  Collector  of  Customs  for  this 
peat,  having  been  appointeil  in  1897. 

On  June  26,  1872,  Mr.  Anderscm  married 
I.ois.\.,  daugliler  of  William  Kinnear,  lCs(|., 
of  Sack'.'il'.e.  They  have  four  ehihiren; 
namely,  Alice  W,  James  !■'.,  Lena  H. ,  and 
(iussie  M.  .Mice  \'.,  the  eldest  daughter, 
graiUiated  Irom  the  I.adv's  College  at  Moimt 
.\llison  and  from  the  l!ost  m  Conservatorv  of 
Music.  She  sulise(|ueut  ly  taught  nuisie  al  Ihe 
Acadian    Seminary    in   >.'o\a    Scotia    for   some 


time,  and  then  went  abroad  and  sjient  a  year 
in  further  jierfecting  hei'  musical  education 
under  tuition  of  some  of  the  best  teachers  of 
Germany.  She  married  the  Rev.  M.  A.  Mac- 
Lean,  pastor  of  the  ]iai)tist  church  of  North 
.Sidney,  N.  S.  IMr.  MacI.ean  was  born  at 
X'ictoria  Cross,  I'.L.I.,  in  1.S71,  In  early  life 
he  taught  school  for  a  number  of  \ears  in  his 
native  ])rt)vince,  and  afterwaril  took  a  four 
years'  course  at  .Acadia  College,  Nova  Scotia, 
wheie  he  graduated  at  the  head  of  his  class. 
lie  subsequently  spent  two  years  at  Chicago 
L'nivcrsity,  and  then  took  a  theological  cour.se 
at  Rochester  University,  New  York,  where  he 
graduated  in  1S9.S. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Anderson's  other  children  — 
James  !•".,  Lena  H. ,  and  Cussie  M.,-  -aie  still 
living  under  the  parental  roof,  and  are  aged 
niiicleen,  si.xteen,  and  eleven  years  respectively. 


OSi'-.i'II  W.  McALARY,*  of  St.  John 
was  l)(]rn  in  Cambridge,  (Jucens  County, 
X.H. ,  in  I  863.  His  iwrents  were  James 
and  I'liebe  (Ilcustis)  McAlary,  the  father  born 
in  New  lirunswiek  in  iSj^.  Mr.  McAlary's 
grandfather,  James  McAlarv,  who  came  from 
the  north  of  Ireland,  settled  in  (Jucens  Count)-, 
where  he  followed  farming  and  lived  to  an  ad- 
\aueed  age.  lie  married  a  Miss  Clark,  and 
they  brought  up  a  family  of  five  children,  of 
whom  James  was  the  fourth-born.  James 
McAlary  was  reared  to  farm  life,  and  is  still 
following  that  occupation.  lie  is  a  Deacon 
ol  the  l''irst  liaptist  Chuich  in  Candiridge. 
Ills    wife,    whom    he    married    in    I  cS6o,    is    a 


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(laughter  of  Samuel  Ilcustis.  They  have  had 
throe  children — Joseph  W.,  Alice,  and  l'"red- 
crick  W. 

Joseph  W.  Mc'AIary  aci|uire'l  his  education 
in  tlu;  conniion  schools  of  Cambridge,  S.U. 
At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  went  to  St.  John, 
and  entered  the  cniidoy  of  James  Watson,  with 
whom  he  remained  until  the  hitter's  death. 
He  then  continued  witii  Mr.  Watson's  sons, 
who  had  succeeded  to  the  business,  as  ac- 
countant and  manager  of  the  mercantile  ile- 
partment,  which  position  he  still  holds.  He 
is  also  the  owner  of  several  coasting-vessels. 

In  iSSS  .Mr.  McAhuy  married  Miss  Ada 
iXrmstrong,  ilaughter  of  Joim  Armstrong,  of 
St.  John;  and  of  this  union  there  are  two 
daughters — Hazel  and  Helen.  After  her 
death  Mr.  McAlary  married  for  his  second 
wife,  in  October,  itSij/,  Miss  Maggie  W. 
ICasterbrook,  daughtei-  of  Joim  1'.  hlasterhiDok, 
of  St.  John. 

Mr.  Mc.\Iar\'  is  a  nu'mber  of  the  Imlcpen- 
dcnt  Order  of  (j(;od  Templars.  He  attends  tiie 
Main  Street  Bajjtist  Church,  of  the  Sunday- 
school  of  which  he  is  treasurer. 


l.\kl.i;S  .\.  CLARK,*  proprietor  ol 
a  thii\ing  grocery  store  in  .St.  John, 
was  born  in  that  city  in  iSjS,  son 
of  Charles  and  Barbara  Clark.  His  fat!ier  was 
a  native  of  (Iranville,  .Annapolis  County,  \.S., 
and  his  motiiei'  was  boin  in  St.  Joim.  His 
grandfather,  James  Clark,  came  to  New  Hruns- 
wick  with  the  I.oyalists  in  1783,  and  was  a 
farmer.      James  was  the  father  of  five  children 


—  James,  Daniel,  ICdnumd,  Richard,  and 
Charles.  Charles  Clark,  who  was  born  in 
1S14,  remained  at  home  and  assisted  his  father 
upon  liie  farm  until  reaching  the  age  of  thirty 
years,  when  he  came  to  St.  John  and  engaged 
in  business  as  a  caijjenter  and  builder,  which 
occupation  he  followed  for  nearly  twenty-tive 
years.  His  death,  whiih  occurred  in  186.S, 
was  caused  by  an  accident  while  be  was  erect- 
ing the  l.saac  Burpee  building,  which  stood 
upon  the  site  now  occupied  by  the  Canadian 
Drug  Company's  store.  ilis  wife,  Barbara, 
whose  UKiiden  name  was  Bowen,  and  whom  he 
married  in  1S53,  was  the  widow  of  Captain 
John  Beck,  master  of  a  coaster  lunning  be- 
tween St.  John  and  I'hiladeliihia.  She  died 
in  June,  1S9S,  in  her  eighty-seventh  )ear. 
(^f  her  tirst  marriage  thei'e  were  two  children: 
John  Heck,  a  prominent  nieiihant  of  St.  John, 
who  died  in  1S.S5;  and  .Augusta,  who  is  the 
widow  of  Sidney  H.  I'atteison.  The  only  child 
of  her  second  union  is  Charles  A.  Claik,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles 
Clark  attended  the  Methodist  l';i)isco|)al  clunch. 
After  com|)leting  his  education  in  the  grani- 
niar  schools  of  St.  John,  Charles  .A.  Clark  be- 
came a  cleik  in  the  store  of  his  half  brollu'r, 
John  licck,  a  connnission  merchant  on  -South 
Wharf,  and  remained  there  mitil  the  store  was 
destroyed  by  fire  in  i^vS.  He  then  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  on  Charlotte  Street, 
subse(pientl_v  leniuving  thence  to  the  noith  end 
of  King  Sijuaie,  and  in  |S(J4  settled  in  his 
|)resent  location  in  the  City  Market  Building, 
where  he  is  eairying  on  a  i>roritable  business. 
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with  Miss  ICmnui  McAlpiiie,  a  (laiij;hter  of 
Davitl  IMcAlpino,  puljlishcr  of  tlic  St.  Joiiii 
Directory.  Tiicy  liavc  two  cbiUlreii — lunma 
Jean  and  liarljara  lahcl.  Mr.  Clark  is  a  niciii- 
bcr  (iT  tile  .^^as(lnil.■  onici-.  He  l)clon^s  to  liic 
Salvage  Corps,  and  is  cai)tain  of  tlic  fire  police. 
In  his  religious  belief  lie  is  a  Methodist. 


i\CA;/ II. I.I.AM  FRICDICRICK  IIARRI- 
.SON,*  a  wholesale  i;rocer  of  St.  John, 
was  born  at  Sheffield,  Sinilniry  County,  X.H. , 
in  1830,  son  of  the  Hon.  C'harles  and  Mary 
(lUiipee)  Harrison,  his  mother  beiii};'  a  daugh- 
ter of  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  of  Sheffield. 
The  Harrisons  first  settled  in  Virginia  about 
i(')7o;  and  it  is  from  this  branch  of  the  family 
that  William  Henry,  ninth  President  of  the 
United  States,  and  e-x-T'esident  I'e'ijamin 
Harrison  are  descendi'd.  The  first  ineinber  of 
this  branch  to  achieve  iicit(jriety  was  Jienjamin 
Harrison,  father  of  William  Henry  Harrison, 
who  in  1781  was  elected  Ciovernoi-  of  \  irginia. 
Nearly  a  bundieil  )eais  after  this  portion  of 
the  family  came  to  Virginia,  in  1  jC)/,  two 
brothers,  Charles  and  James  Harrison,  came 
out  from  County  .\iitrim,  Irelaml,  to  join  the 
descendants  of  the  first  settler;  but  at  the  time 
of  the  Revolutionary  War  lieiijamiii  Harrison 
with  his  family  sided  with  the  Americans  (he 
being  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of 
Iiule])eiideiice),  while  Charles  and  James  re- 
mained lo\al  to  the  Hiilish  side,  and  obtained 
commissions  in  the  imperial  luniy  under  Sir 
Henry  Clinton.  In  17.S3  these  nvo  brothers 
came   to   New    Urunswick   WMth   the    Loyalists; 


and  in  the  following  year  Charles  Harrison 
was  appointed  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the  mili- 
tia of  Sunbury  County  by  Covernor  Thomas 
Carlcton,  and  with  his  brother  James  settled 
at  .Sheffield.  Charles  died  unmarried;  and 
James  married  Charity  Copertluvaite,  a  (jiiak- 
eress  from  I'hiladelphia,  and  died  in  1806, 
leaving  five  sons  and  four  daughters,  one  of 
whom  was  Charles  Harrison,  the  father  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch. 

William  l""redcrick  Harrison  came  to  St. 
John  in  1S51.  He,  with  Mr.  I'rice,  estab- 
lished the  carriage  factory  now  carried  on  by 
I'riec  &  Shaw.  A  few  years  later  he  withdiew 
from  tlie  iirni  to  enter  into  partnershi|)  with 
his  brother,  Jeremiah  Harrison;  and  the  two 
carried  on  a  large  wholesale  provision  business 
until  a  few  ye;irs  ago,  when  the  partnership 
was  dissolved. 

;\Ir.  Harri.son  married  a  daughter  of  the  late 
Lieutenant  Colonel  Tujiper,  of  Woodstock  ;  and 
they  have  live  children  now  living  —  Charles, 
William,  Lama,  Hertram,  anil  Waller. 


ILLIAM  H.  I"t)WLl':R,*  miller,  .St. 
John,  was  boiii  in  Sackville,  West- 
morelaiul  Comity,  N.l!. .  in  1S4J,  son  of  (iecnge 
and  Rebecca  (Hicks)  I'"owder.  His  father,  who 
was  born  in  baiglaiul  about  the  year  17S3, 
served  an  a]ii)renti(eshi|)  of  seven  years  at  the 
tamier's  and  currier's  trade.  Coming  to  New 
Hrunswick  in  iSij  (.11  board  of  a  privateer,  he 
hn-ated  in  .Sackville,  where  he  resumed  his 
trade,  and  for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  was 
manager  of  a  large  tanning  and  currying  busi- 


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ness  carried  nn  by  James  A)cr.  He  died  in 
1S7S.  His  wile,  Rebecca,  was  of  Loj'alisl  an- 
cestry. Slie  was  a  sister  of  Hyle  anil  Read 
Jlicivs,  who  reside  res|iectively  in  Dorchester 
and  Sackvilie,  and  are  i)r(]S|ieroiis  fanners, 
(.icorge  and  Rebecca  I''owler  were  tlie  parents 
of  eight  chihhen;  namely,  I'llizabeth,  .S:iraii 
.Ann,  Mary,  Josiah,  Amos,  (ieorge,  William 
II.,  and  Read.  Elizabeth,  who  married  a  Mr. 
Tower,  is  no  longer  living;  .Sarah  .Ann  is  the 
widow  of  James  Cole;  Mary  tlied  at  about  the 
age  of  twenty  years;  Josiah  died  at  twenty- 
two;  i\mos,  at  twenty-eight;  Read  died  in 
1S95;  George  is  residing  in  .Sackville.  Re- 
becca I'owlcr,  the  mother,  died  in  1S47.  Huth 
liarents  were  members  of  the  Hai)tist  chinch. 

William  H.  Fowler  sperit  three  years  in 
learning  the  tanner's  and  currier's  trade,  and 
subsequently  ser\ed  an  apprenticeship  of  four 
years  at  the  carriage-maker's  trade,  doing  to 
Massachusetts  in  i.^lj,  he  was  for  the  succeed- 
ing ten  years  engaged  in  the  carriage  business. 
In  1S75  he  returnctl  to  New  Hrunswick,  and 
settled  in  .St.  John,  where  for  the  ne.vt  three 
years  he  was  engaged  in  the  wool  trade.  lie 
then  went  into  the  (lour  and  feed  business,  and 
in  iSSj  purchased  a  piece  of  property  at  .Marsh 
bridge,  formerly  used  for  manufacturing  |Hir- 
poses,  and,  putting  in  a  set  of  gri>t-mill  ma- 
chinery especially  for  the  grinding  of  corn 
meal,  lias  conducted  a  successful  business 
continuously  to  the  present  time.  His  mill 
has  a  capacity  for  grinding  one  hundied  ;md 
eight)'  bushels  in  ten  hmus,  and  he  is  one  of 
the  best  known  mercluiut  millers  in  that 
locality. 


In  ;\Iarch,  1H70,  Mr.  Fowler  was  joined  in 
marriage  with  Miss  IMargaret  I'ierson,  daughter 
of  Captain  John  I'ierson,  of  this  city.  The)' 
have  had  eight  children,  live  of  whom  died  in 
infancy.  Those  now  living  are:  Margaret, 
y\le\ander,  ;uul  William  Leopold. 

Mr.  I'"owler  is  a  Master  Mason,  and  belongs 
to  Hibernian  Lodge.  He  attends  the  Baptist 
church. 


II.I.I.XM  .SUMMKRVILLI'.  ,MOR- 
RLSON,  M.D.,  a  homojoiiathic  phy- 
sician of  .St.  John,  N.H. ,  was  born  at  Wilmot, 
Annapolis,  N.S. ,  .September  20,  1849.  His 
parents  were  Daniel  and  IMargarct  (Campbell) 
Morrison,  natives  of  the  north  of  Ireland,  and 
his  remoter  ancestors  on  both  sides  were 
.Scotch.  His  i)rofessional  studies  were  pursued 
in  the  nu'dical  dcpaitmenl  of  lioslon  Univer- 
sity, where  in  iiS<Si  he  graduated  as  Doctor  of 
Medicine.  He  has  built  up  in  St.  John  a 
large  jiractice,  whiih  is  constantly  increasing  ; 
and  he  stands  high  in  llv  estiniation  of  the 
public  generally. 

Dr.  Morrison  belongs  to  the  Knigi'ts  of 
I'ythias,  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  bel- 
lows, the  Ancient  ( Irder  of  I'nited  Workmen, 
and  to  vai  ious  temperance  societies,  and  is 
Past  Chief  of  t'lan  MacKenzie,  O.  S.  C.  He 
is  also  an  active  member  of  the  V'ouug  Men's 
Christian  Association  and  corresponding  mem- 
ber of  the  Internati(jnal  Committee  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Medical  .Society  of  New 
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Ifoma-opathy.  In  politics  he  is  a  I.ilieral, 
but  takes  iki  pidminent  part  in  political  affairs, 
bein;^'  obliged  to  (li'\(itc  all  his  time  to  his  ex- 
tensive practice.  In  religion  he  is  a  I'resby- 
terian. 

Dr.  Morrison  was  married  January  28,  1.SS5, 
to  Mary,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  James  Kennedy, 
of  New  \'<nk  City.  His  famil\-  consists  of 
four  son.s;  namely,  James  Kennedy,  JMank 
Sifford,   ilu-h  O'Neill,  and    leaser   Campbell. 


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V.   IH.AVIKRK    CARRITTK,  an   en- 

lc\  m  terprising  and  jirosperous  business 
man  of  St.  J(ihn,  was  born  in  Am- 
herst, N.  .S.,  March  14,  1856,  a  son  of  Tliomas 
W.  and  .Susainia  Louise  (( livandan)  (."ariitte. 
lie  was  educated  in  .St.  John,  to  which  |)lacc 
his  family  came  in  iSjo.  lie  gained  his  first 
industrial  cxjjerience  in  the  employ  <if  Kol)ert 
Kobertson  S:  .Son,  ship's  outfitters  and  chand- 
lers, this  being  the  largest  firm  of  the  kind  at 
that  time  in  St.  John.  After  remaining  there 
three  years  he  went  to  New  \'ork  City,  where 
for  five  \\  's  he  was  engaged  in  the  hat  manu- 
facturing business.  Then  for  a  short  time  he 
coiuhictcd  business  in  New  \o\k  as  a  dealer 
in  naval  stores,  and  he  still  has  an  interest  in 
this  business,  of  which  he  started  a  branch  in 
St.  John.  In  1  SSi)  he  oigani/ed  the  I'ldviiicial 
C'heniical  l''ertilizcr  Compaiu-,  of  which  he  is 
now  president,  the  company  having  been  in- 
cor[)orated  in  iS(ji.  The  business  has  grown 
to  be  (Hie  of  the  niosl  o\tcnsi\e  industries  in 
New  Ihunswick.      In  1S94   .Mr.  Cairilte  estab- 


lished the  Welcome  .Soap  Company  of  St. 
John,  tw(/ years  later  establishing  al.so  a  branch 
of  this  company  in  St.  Johns,  \.  h'.  In  iSgS 
he  incorporated  the  Carritte  raterson  Manu- 
facturing Company  of  Ilalifa.y,  of  which  he  is 
now  jiresident.  This  company,  using  tlie 
product  of  the  People's  Heat  and  Light  Coni- 
Jiany,  niaiuifactures  all  kinds  of  roofing,  and 
is  engaged  also  in  distilling  co.il  tar  and  mak- 
ing pitch.  These  various  enterprises,  all  of 
which  are  in  a  flourishing  eoiidilion,  show  Mr. 
Carritte  to  be  a  thoroughly  wide-awake  business 
man.  while  his  re|)utatioii  for  honorable  deal- 
ing is  such  as  to  inspire  general  confidence. 

Mr.  Carritte  was  married  in  March,  iSS?,  to 
Miss  Mary  K.  Robin.son,  a  daughter  of  James 
and  Maria  (Merritt)  Robinson,  of  St.  John. 
Mr.  and  Mis.  Carritte  have  one  child  living, 
a  son  Roy,  horn  in  July,  1884.  A  daughter, 
Marie,  born  October  1S91,  died  in  June, 
I  <S<>S. 


I'HIJLN     FOWLKR,    a    well-known 
and     highly    respected     citizen    of 

,  was  born  in  Hammond  Vale, 

Kings  County,  N.H. ,  in  1N23,  .sini  of  .Xnimon 
and  Mary  (Taylor)  b'owler.  lie  is  a  grand- 
son of  Weeden  I'Owlcr,  first,  a  Loyalist  of 
1783,  who  settled  or  the  grant  of  land  now 
comprising  the  I'owler  homestead  in  French 
Village,   Kings  County,  N.I?. 

The  f.ither  of  the  tirst  Wecdcn  I'owler  not 
being  a  Loyalist,  he  remained  in  the  States, 
and  in  1.S12  Ammoii  l-'owler,  his  grandson, 
started  to  visit  him.      ()n  account  of  the  pri- 


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vatfcrs  tlicii  filliiifi  the  ocean  waters,  however, 
he  could  not  fuul  any  vessel  to  take  him  from 
New  Hninswick;  and  lie  started  up  the  St. 
John  River.  Arriving;  at  Mayorville  in  Sun- 
hiiry  County,  he  met  Miss  Mary  Taylor,  with 
whom  he  straightway  fell  in  love.  Two  years 
later  he  led  this  lady  to  tiie  altar,  and  she 
suhsei|uently  became  the  mother  of  his  thirteen 
children.  Ci  this  large  fnmily  four  died  in 
infancy.  The  nine  who  grew  to  maturity 
were:  I'^lizaheth,  Jemima,  ICllinor,  Weeden, 
David,  (ieorge  VV. ,  Justus,  Mary,  and  Judson 
M.  IClizaheth  married  Charles  I'arker,  of 
St.  John,  Jemima  married  William  liowser, 
of  Sackyille,  and  I'.llinor  married  I^dward 
'I'aylor,  of  Maugerville.  All  these,  and  also 
IJavid,  George  \V. ,  and  Justus,  are  deceased. 
Mary  married  Thaddeus  Scribner,  of  Kent 
County.  Judson  M.  resides  in  St.  John. 
Amnion  I'owler  was  a  Deacon  of  the  Haptist 
church  for  many  years  and  one  of  its  most  de- 
voted .and  consistent  members.  His  death  oc- 
curred in  1.S72.  His  wife  ilied  in  1S74,  at 
tlie  advanced  age  of  eighty-three. 

Weeden  I'owler,  son  of  Ammon,  was  reared 
as  a  farmer's  boy,  and  received  a  common- 
school  education.  He  was  then  apiirenticed 
to  his  cousin  James  Hamilton  to  learn  the 
tanner's  and  currier's  trade.  After  complet- 
ing his  ap|)renticeship  he  established  a  tan- 
nery in  HaniTnond,  and  there  for  many  years 
he  carried  on  an  extensive  business.  I'or 
sotnc  years  past  he  has  been  engaged  in  agri- 
cultural pursuits.  He  was  first  married  in 
1853  to  Miss  Harriet  I''owiies,  of  St.  Martins. 
She   bore   him   the   following-named  children : 


David  J.,  who  resides  on  the  I'owler  home- 
stead, and  is  Councillor  for  the  parish;  ICd- 
mund  H.,  who  i.s  in  business  in  Vancouver, 
H.C. ;  (ieorge  W. ;  and  Weeden  C,  the  last 
named  of  whom  is  in  business  in  Dawson 
City,  .\.  W.T.  Mrs.  Harriet  I'owler  died  in 
1X67.  Mr.  {''owler  subsequently  m.irried  a 
daughter  of  the  Hon.  George  Ryan,  of  .Stud- 
holm.  She  bore  him  one  child,  Harriet  M., 
now  the  wife  of  A.  H.  Robinson,  superintend- 
ent of  the  llavelock  Railroad.  The  second 
Mrs.  h'owler  died  in  18.S6,  and  Mr.  l''owkr 
subse(|uently  married  Annie  Cahill,  of  .Sack- 
ville. 

Mr.  h'owler  has  always  taken  a  warm  and 
active  interest  in  all  matters  [lertaining  to  the 
administration  of  local  affairs,  and  has  held 
every  ])()sition  of  jMominence  to  which  his 
fellow-townsmen  could  elect  him.  He  has 
served  as  Parish  Court  Commissioner,  being 
the  oldest  magistrate  in  the  county.  h'rom 
early  manhood  he  has  been  an  ardent  advocate 
of  tem])erance,  and  neither  he  nor  his  father 
ever  tasted  intoxicating  licpiors.  Politically, 
he  is  a  Conservative,  and  in  religious  faith  a 
Kaptist. 

George  W.  P'owler  was  born  in  Hammond 
Vale  on  I'ebruary  24,  iSflo.  His  rilucalion 
was  received  at  Dalhousie  University,  Hali- 
fax, and  at  I?oston  Ihiiversity.  He  wav  >,nad- 
uated  from  the  last-named  institution  in  June, 
18.S4.  In  the  following  (Jctober  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  New  Urunswick,  and  a 
year  later  was  made  barrister.  He  began  the 
jiractice  of  his  profession  in  -Sus'^ex,  where  he 
has  since  been  in  business.      He   is  a  temper- 


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ancc  man  and  a  willing  worker  in  hehalf  of 
the  [luhlie  advancement.  l-'or  four  years  he 
served  as  a  member  of  tiie  IMimicipal  Council 
and  for  three  years  as  a  member  of  the  local 
legislature,  lie  is  a  member  of  the  Order  of 
Orangemen. 

Mr.  George  W.  h'owler  was  married  in 
July,  1897,  to  Miss  I'Uhel  (i.  Wilson,  daugh- 
terof  Captain  J.  C.  Wilson,  of  the  Allan  Line 
of  steamers.  lie  lias  one  little  daughter, 
Gladys  W. 


^AMIO.S  C.  KDHllRTSOX,  who  was  for 
some  lime  connected  with  the  Tortland 
kolliiij;  Mills,  was  hoin  in  Ihidgctowii, 
N.  S. ,  being  a  son  of  the  Rev.  James  and  Mirca 
(Hansard)  Robertson. 

The  Rev.  James  Robertson  was  a  native  of 
.Strathsay,  IVrtlisliire,  .Scotland,  born  in  1S02. 
lie  was  ediuated  at  King's  l"(dlege,  Aiierdeeii, 
where  in  iSjT)  he  received  the  degree  of  Master 
of  Arts,  and  in  1S56  tiiai  of  Doctor  of  Laws. 
On  December  S,  iSj.S,  he  was  elected  a  mem 
ber  of  the  Northern  Institution  U>v  the  promo- 
tion of  science  and  literalnre  in  Inverness. 
lie  was  ordained  a  piiesl  of  the  C'hnich  of 
iMigland  i)y  Iiislio|)  .Skinnei',  of  .\berdcen,  at 
.St.  Andrew's  Chapel  in  that  cit\',  jmie  S, 
iSj(j,  iiaxing  pre\iiiiisl\'  scrsed  in  deacon's 
ordeis  as  assistant  at  MeikellicM,  near 
hnerness.  In  iSjc)  lie  came  to  Xcwfoundland 
as  missionary  of  the  S.  1'.  ( i.  In  1832  he 
came  to  Hridgctowii,  where  he  Idled  the  office 
of  rector  of  the  then  undi\i(ied  parish,  al- 
though   he   was   not    formally   appointed    until 


1S37.  In  1S54  he  removed  to  W'ilniot;  and 
he  died  at  Middlelon,  January  K),  1S7S.  |  K' 
was  a  |irofound  general  and  scienlilic  scholar 
as  well  as  tlie(dogian.  In  1M35  he  received  a 
silver  medal  from  the  .Mechanics  Institute, 
Halifax  (J.  I.eander  .Starr,  president),  for  the 
best  essay  on  the  ,\ppliial  ion  of  .Science  to  the 
Arts.  He  was  the  author  of  an  able  treatise 
on  infant  liaplisni,  besides  other  pamphlets 
and  essays. 

His  wife,  Mirca,  was  the  youngest  daughter 
of  .Major  Hansard  i>{  the  .Si.vlyniuth  Regiment 
of  I'oot,  and  a  sister  of  the  wife  of  tlie  kite 
Archdeacon  Coster,  of  l'"redericton,  N.  li. 

James  C".  Robertson  after  coming  to  St. 
John  beiame  coniu'cted  with  the  Harris  .Allan 
Coin|)aiiy,  and  siibse(piently  he  accejited  a  re- 
sponsible |iosition  with  the  rortland  Ridling 
Mills. 


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juster of  (ire-insurance  losses,  one 
cif  the  leading  eisi/cns  of  St.  John,  .\.H.,  was 
born  in  .St.  John,  on  July  17,  1X4(1,  son  of  Ivd- 
ward  I.iilw\(he  and  Lllcn  Maclean  (Leonard) 
Jarvis.  A  full  account  of  his  family  ancestry 
is  given  in  the  sketch  of  W.  M.  Jarvis,  wliicli 
precedes  this. 

His  fatiier,  lidward  l.iitw\clie  Jarvis,  was 
boiii  in  St.  John  in  1S07,  and  on  attaining  his 
majority  went  into  business  with  his  father  as 
a  ])artner.  His  marriage  took  jilace  in  1S3S, 
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ncy,  Cajic  Hrctoii,  where  he  was  collector  of 
customs  for  many  years,  aiul  where  Mrs.  Jarvis 
was  born.  In  I1S50  Mr.  Jarvis  removed  to  St. 
Johns,  Newfoundland,  and  there  cnj,'aged  in 
the  insurance  business,  antl  was  appointed 
Colonial  A.  D.  C.  lie  took  great  interest  in 
military  matters,  and  while  in  New  J^runswick 
was  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  O.  N.  li.  R. 
His  death  occurred  in  Newfoundland  in  1S7S. 
He  and  his  wife  were  the  parents  of  four  chil- 
dren; namely,  Isabel  Maclean,  Charles  I-l.  I.., 
I'^Uen  Caroline,  and  Mary  Nutting.  Mrs.  Jar- 
vis survived  her  husband  about  si.\  months, 
dying  in  the  spring  of  1879. 

Isabel  Maclean  Jarvis  married  William  15. 
Bowring,  e.\-Lord-Mayor  of  London,  Lng- 
land.  Ellen  Caroline  Jarvis  married  C!harles 
Wesham,  Lieutenant  in  Her  Majesty's  .Si.\ty- 
second  Regiment.  .Mary  Nutting  Jarvis  mar- 
ried Henry  I'"..  Hay  ward,  of  .St.  Johns,  N.  !•". 

Charles  L.  L.  Jarvis  was  reared  anil  edu- 
cated in  .St.  John,  N.H. ,  and  in  St.  Johns, 
Newfoundland,  antl  upon  leaving  school  en- 
tcretl  his  father's  office,  where  he  remained 
until  1865.  Returning  then  to  .St.  J(ihn,  he 
was  made  general  agent,  in  the  spring  of  1806, 
of  the  Queen's  Insurance  Company,  which 
company  he  has  now  represented  in  New 
Brunswick  for  upward  of  thirty  years.  He  is 
also  general  agent  for  the  Insurance  Company 
of  North  America  and  adjuster  of  fire  insurance 
losses,  and  has  served  as  president  of  the  New 
Brunswick  Hoard  of  Fire  L^nilerwriters.  Since 
1895  he  has  been  \'iccConsul  of  the  Republic 
of  Brazil. 

Mr.  Jarvis  married,    in    1S67,    Annie  Ellen 


Leonard,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Mc- 
Ghee,  who  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  rector 
of  Sus.se.x,  N.B.  The  five  children  born  of 
this  union  arc:  Lsabel  H.,  l'"lorence  A.,  l{thel 
II.,  I'".dwaid  L.,  and  Murray  Maclean. 


IHUTENANT-COLOXEL  GEORGE 
J.  MAUXSELL,*  Commander  of  the 
Royal  Regiment  of  lanadian  Infan- 
try, the  companies  of  which  are  stationed  at 
Regimental  de|)ots  in  London  and  Toronto, 
Ont.,  at  St.  Johns,  P.O.,  and  in  P'redericton, 
\.B.,  has  been  connected  with  the  military 
service  of  Great  Britain  and  the  Provinces 
as  a  commissioned  officer  for  the  larger  [lart  of 
his  active  life.  He  was  l)orn  of  distinguished 
ancestry,  August  2$,  1836,  at  Bally-Wil- 
liam House,  Rathkealc,  County  Limerick, 
Ireland. 

His  father,  George  Mcares  Maunsell,  whose 
name  is  found  in  "Burke's  Irish  Landed  Gen- 
try," was  Justice  of  the  Peace  at  Mally-Will- 
iam  House,  where  he  married  a  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  J.  Stopford.  Her  father,  according  to 
"Burke's  Peerage,"  was  a  son  of  the  Bishop 
of  Cloyne  and  Ross,  and  a  direct  descendant  of 
Lord  Courtown. 

George  J.  ]\Iaunsell  received  his  preliminary 
military  education  at  Sandhurst  Royal  Military 
College,  in  which  he  passed  his  final  examina- 
tions in  May,  1855.  Being  subsequently  ap- 
pointed to  the  l'"ifteenth  Regiment,  he  was 
with  it  at  various  Mediterranean  stations  dur- 
ing the  Crimean  War,  when  the  regiment  was 
sent  to  reinforce  the  troops  engaged    in  active 


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service.  Uuiing  the  following  two  years  he 
travelled  extensively  in  Soi'Miern  luirope,  more 
especially  in  Spain,  through  which  he  i)asse(l 
on  foot  and  on  horseback.  After  his  return 
he  took  a  course  of  military  engineering  in 
1857  at  the  Royal  College  at  Aldershot,  and 
when  there  was  employed  on  tlie  staff,  (^n 
November  27  of  that  year  he  was  promoted 
from  the  rank  of  ICnsign  to  that  of  Lieutenant. 
In  the  winter  of  1858  and  1859,  Lieutenant 
Maunsell  further  advanced  his  knowledge  of 
military  tactics  by  an  attendance  at  the  School 
of  Musketry,  from  which  he  received  a  certifi- 
cate of  *he  first-class  on  January  26,  1859,  and 
a  few  days  later,  l'"el)ruary  10,  was  ajipointed 
In.structor  of  Mu.sketry.  On  March  12,  1861, 
he  was  gazetted  Captain  of  a  company  in  Her 
Majesty's  l-'ifteenth  Regiment,  and  for  some 
time  afterward  was  Acting  Adjutant,  and  In- 
structor of  Musketry  at  the  h^ighth  Battalion 
Depot. 

In  January,  1864,  Captain  Maunsell  came  to 
New  ]?runswick  via  Ilalifa.v.  The  Civil  War 
in  the  United  States  was  then  Hearing  its 
close,  ar.d  Captain  Maunsell  accompanied  the 
Army  of  the  I'otomac  in  the  sjiring  campaign 
of  1865,  and  at  the  capture  of  Richmond,  \'a. , 
was  temjiorarily  attachetl  to  the  staff  of  Gen- 
eral Grant.  On  November  22,  1865,  he  was 
made  Adjutant-general  of  the  New  lirunswiik 
militia,  and,  in  aiklitinn  to  organizing  com- 
panies, was  called  U[)on  to  assist  in  defending 
the  western  frontier  of  the  I'rovince  during  the 
I'"enian  invasion  of  1866.  iXfter  the  ])assage 
of  the  milit.u')-  act  on  January  1,  1869,  Colo- 
nel  Maunsell   was  ga/ctted    Deputy    Adjutant- 


general  of  Military  District  No.  8,  New 
Jirunswick,  and  between  1S71  and  1880  he 
was  entrusted  with  the  charge  of  the  tactical 
brigade  camps  at  I'redericton,  Woodstock,  and 
Chatham,  and  also  took  a  course  of  study  and 
obtained  a  certificate  at  the  I'inyal  Arsenal, 
Woolwich. 

On  April  i,  iSSr,  Lieutenant  Colonel 
i\Iaunsell  assumed  command  of  Military  Dis- 
trict No.  4,  and  in  ;u!dition  to  having  charge 
of  brigade  canijis  at  Ottawa  anil  lirockvilie  was 
at  the  hcatl  of  the  Infantry  School  of  Instruc- 
tion at  Ottawa,  where  he  had  his  i)ea(k(uarters. 
On  July  21,  1883,  he  sailed  for  England, 
where,  for  ])urposes  of  further  instruction,  he 
was  atlaclied  to  Her  Majest\-'s  forces  at  Aider- 
shot;  and  while  thus  engaged  he  visited  \-ari- 
ous  places  in  Belgium,  Germany,  .Switzerland, 
and  I'"rance,  and  several  of  the  i)attleficlds  of 
the  Franco-German  War  in  search  of  informa- 
tion connected  with  his  iirofession.  In  No- 
vendier,  1883,  he  returned  to  Ottawa,  and  on 
December  31,  1883,  was  appointed  Com- 
mandant of  the  .Sclioi.I  of  Infantry  connected 
wMlh  what  is  now  liie  Royal  Regiment  if  Cana- 
dian Infantry. 

On  May  16,  1884,  Colonel  Maunsell,  still 
retaining  command  of  the  school  and  corps 
with  which  he  was  connected,  was  reajipointed 
Deputy  Adjutant-general  of  District  Xo.  8, 
New  Brunswick.  In  May,  1885,  the  Colonel 
organized  a  temiiorary  battalion,  comjiosed  of 
the  school  corps,  six  militia  comijanies  of  New 
Brunswick,  and  two  I'rince  I^dward  Island 
niililary  companies,  and  wilii  liicm  started  for 
inmiediatc  service  in  the  North  west  territory; 


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but  on  the  eighteenth  ilay  of  that  month  was 
ordered  into  camp  at  Sussex,  where  he  was  to 
await  fiuther  orders,  and  seven  days  later  lie 
received  tlie  tliani^s  of  the  authorities.  Tlie 
C()mi)anies,  tlieir  services  hei\ig  no  longer 
needed,  were  then  sent  to  their  local  headquar- 
ters. In  1896  Lieutenant  Colonel  Maunsell 
was  appointed  Inspector  of  Infantiy  for  the 
eastern  division  of  Canada,  which  comprises 
the  provinces  of  Uuehec,  New  l?runswick, 
Xova  Scotia,  and  Prince  lulward's  Island;  and 
he  has  since  been  commissioned  Lieutenant- 
colonel  of  the  Royal  Regiment  of  Canadian 
Infantry,  with  headtpiarters  at  Fredericton. 

On  August  9,  1862,  Colonel  MaunscM  mar- 
ried Miss  Mooney,  one  of  the  older  daughters  of 
the  late  l-".  I''.  Mooney,  J.  I'.,  I).  1..,  of  "The 
Doon,"  J'ings  Count) ,  Ireland.  He  has  four 
sons  and  three  daughters.  The  eldest  son  is  a 
Captain  in  the  ICighth  Feginient,  P.  L.  Cav- 
alry, in  New  Prunswick,  and  the  eldest  daugh- 
ter is  the  wife  of  J.  W.  de  Courcy  O'Grady,  of 
the  Hank  of  ( )ttawa,  Montreal.  Colonel 
Maunsell  has  been  a  coninnuiicant  of  the  P'pis- 
copal  church  since  his  early  youth. 


ll^yailR  CLINCH,*  of  St.  John,  a  gen- 
eral insurance  agent,  was  born  in  St. 
(ieorge,  N.P. ,  January  7,  1855,  son 
of  Peter  and  Sarah  J.  (Wetmore)  Clinch.  His 
great-grandfather,  the  first  ])rogenitor  of  the 
family  in  America,  an  Irish  gentleman  and  a 
graduate  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  came  to 
this  country  when  a  young  man,  and,  at  the 
breaking  out  of  the   American   Revolution,  re- 


maining loyal  to  the  Crown,  joined  the  Royal 
P'encible  Americans,  in  which  he  served  first  as 
Lieutenant  and  later  as  Captain.  At  the  close 
of  the  war  he  settled  ;.t  St.  (ieorge,  Charlotte 
County,  N.  H. ,  where  the  goxernmcnt  granted 
him  a  large  tract  of  land.  Tliere  he  formed  a 
military  comi)any,  which  rendered  efficient  ser- 
vice in  the  suppression  of  pfipular  outbreaks. 
Peter  Clinch  died  in  St.  George  at  the  age  of 
sixty.  lie  was  a  member  of  the  first  Council 
before  the  present  form  of  Provincial  g  ■'■ern- 
ment  was  inaugurated. 

Patrick  Clinch,  son  of  Peter,  received  a 
gooil  education,  and  became  a  man  of  jiromi- 
nence  in  Charlotte  County.  He  founded  a 
newspaper  at  St.  Andrews,  known  as  VV/r  Pro- 
viihialist,  ser\ed  in  the  Provincial  Legislature, 
and  for  many  jears  was  Inspector  of  SchooLs. 
He  lived  to  he  eighty-four  years  of  age.  His 
wife,  whose  maiden  na..;e  was  I-Ileanor  Davitl- 
son,  was  of  Scotch  ancestry. 

Peter  Clinch,  son  of  Patrick,  and  father  of 
the  present  Peter  Clinch,  grew  up  in  St. 
(ieorge,  where  he  became  an  attorney.  He 
married  Sarah  Josephine,  a  daughter  of  the  late 
Abraham  Wetmore  of  that  place,  and  of  Loyal- 
ist descent.  'J'hey  iiad  five  children,  four  of 
whom  are  now  living,  namely:  Marion  !•'.  ; 
I'ilizabeth  W.  ;  1).  Carlton,  tlie  well-known 
banker  of  .St.  John  (see  sketch,  page  167) ;  and 
Peter. 

Pet(  r  Clinch,  the  direct  subject  of  this 
sketch,  came  to  St.  John  when  fifteen  years  of 
age,  and  for  a  time  was  in  the  employ  of  W.  II. 
Thorne.  In  1875  however,  he  entered  the 
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'le  remained  until  lie  cngaj^ed  in  business  for 
iiimself  in  1883.  Mr..  Clinch  represents  the 
Northern  Fire  Insurance  Company,  the  British 
lunpire  Company,  and  the  I'.mployers'  Liabil- 
ity Company,  all  of  London.  He  has  been 
secretary  for  the  Hoard  of  Underwriters  since 
i8So.  Aside  from  business,  Mr.  Clinch  takes 
p-eat  interest  in  athletics.  In  1876  he  won 
the  first  club  rowing  scull  race,  and  repeated 
the  victory  in  each  of  the  four  succeeding 
years.  In  1895,  in  company  with  Menry  Gil- 
bert, he  won  the  double  scull  race,  lie  also 
takes  an  active  interest  in  horse  racing.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Loyalist  .Society. 


/?TTlHI-:RT  BR1':\VST1':R,*  Collector  of 
V^J  Customs  for  the  port  of  Harvey,  Al- 
i)crt  County,  N.B.,  was  born  in  that  county, 
September  3,  1830,  a  son  of  James  Brewster, 
and  grandson  of  Nathaniel  Brewster,  both  life- 
long residents  of  this  section  of  the  Province 
of  New  Brunswick. 

Nathaniel  Brewster  was  a  thorough-going, 
prosjierous  farmer,  whose  iiomestead  property 
was  greatly  improved  Ly  his  years  of  earnest 
and  practical  toil  in  pioneer  days.  Me  mar- 
ried Annie  Pearson,  who  bravely  faced  the 
trials  that  beset  their  pathway  through  life's 
journey,  and  in  death  was  not  parted  from  him, 
their  bodies  being  laid  to  rest  on  the  same  day. 
They  were  the  parents  of  six  children,  three 
boys  and  three  girls,  of  whom  James  was  the 
second  son. 

James  Brewster  was  a   shipwright  by  trade, 
and  was  also  extensively  engaged  both  in  com- 


mercial and  agricultural   pursuits.      While  liv- 
ing at  Hopewell  Cape,  he  was  one  of  the  lead- 
ing merchants  there,  and  built  up  a  remuner- 
ative   trade.        He    subsequently     settled     in 
Harvey,  where  he  was  for  many  years  a  promi- 
nent citizen,  being  actively  identified  with    its 
public  affairs.      ]''or  a  long  time  he  served  as 
Magistrate,  was  also   Collector  of   Customs  at 
Harvey,  and  for  years  was  Judge  of   Common 
Pleas.      In  politics  he  affiliated  with  the  Con- 
servative jiarty.      He  married  Rebecca,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Calhoun,  of  the  United  .States,  and 
they  became  the  parents  of  fourteen  cliildren, 
of  wliom  six  are  now  living,  as  foU.uvs:  Jane, 
wife  of   Rufus  Piper,    of  IIoulKm,    Me.;    Re- 
becca,   wife  of   Asahel    Wells,    Ivsq.,   of   New 
York;    Annie,    widow   of   the   late   Harris    B. 
Calhoun;    James,    of   whom   there    i?;   here    no 
special   mention;  (iilbert,   the  sul)ject   of   this 
brief  sketch;  and  Charles,  who  married   Mary, 
dangiiter  of  Cai)tain  James  K.  Wells,  of  Albert 
County,  New  Brunswick.      Neither  of  the  par- 
ents are  living,  tiie   father   having  died   at   llie 
age  of  fourscore  years,  and   the   mother  at   the 
age  of  seventy-one  years.      Both  were  members 
of  the  Bapti.st  church. 

(iilbert  Brewster  obtained  his  education  in 
the  schools  of  Albert  County,  after  which  he 
learned  from  his  father  the  trade  of  a  ship- 
wright. Becoming  a  skilled  and  expeditious 
craftsman,  he  followeil  that  vocation  for  many 
years  witii  eminent  success,  working  both  in 
Canada  and  in  tlie  United  States.  In  1S85  he 
was  ajipointed  Collector  of  Customs  for  the 
port  of  Harvey,  a  position  wliich  he  has  since 
held.       A    man    of    .strict     integrity,    public- 


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spiiiteil  and  Ijoncvolciit,  he  is  held  in  hiyli 
regard  tiirouj^hoiit  the  eomnuniity.  As  a  true 
and  loyal  citizen,  he  takes  a  genuine  interest 
in  everything  cakidated  to  further  tiie  well- 
being  of  the  town  and  county,  and  though  not 
an  aspirant  for  political  honors  he  has  for  a 
number  of  years  served  as  Justice  of  the 
I'eace. 

On  January  ly,  1.S54,  Mr.  l!rewster  married 
Amelia,  daughter  of  Captain  James  I'^.  Wells, 
of  Harvey.  She  dietl  April  i,  i<S97,  aged 
sixty-four  years,  leaving  five  children,  namely: 
Julia  S.,  wife  of  Lambert  1-".  West,  of  Harvey; 
(Gilbert,  Jr.,  manager  of  a  canning  factory  at 
Skenna  River,  H. C. ,  who  married  I'lorence 
Ritchie,  of  Albert,  N.J?. ,  and  has  one  child, 
I'^stella;  Harry  Van,  who  for  several  years  has 
been  station  agent  at  Albert,  N.H. ,  for  the 
Salisbury  and  1  huvey  Kiihvay  Company,  and 
who  married  Annie  1'.  Hisiiop,  of  Harvey,  and 
has  two  children  -  (iuy  Stanley  and  Armdd 
Carey;  Harlan  C,  a  printer  by  trade,  now  liv- 
ing in  N'ictoria,  B.C.,  wiio  married  Annie 
Downey,  of  Harvey,  ind  has  one  child,  Ray- 
mond; and  James  H.,  unmarried,  who  resides 
in  Kansas,  N.S. ,  where  he  is  employed  in  the 
Marine  Cable  Service  as  telegraph  operator. 
Mr.  Ihewster  is  a  Deacin  in  the  Hajitist 
church,  of  which  both  he  and  iiis  wife  i)ecame 
mendicrs  many  years  ago. 


yZKKHCL    McLKOU,  (J.C.,  M.l'.,*  Jui'st-' 
Xli  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  New  Uruns- 

wick,  is  a  native  of  Cardwell,  Kings  County, 
N.B.,  born  un  October  29,  1840,  a  .son  of  John 


and  Mary  (McC.eady)  Mcl.eod.  He  was  edu- 
cated at  King'.s  School,  Sussex,  \.h.  In  Oc- 
tober, 1867,  he  was  admitted  as  an  attorney, 
in  October  of  liic  following  \ear  was  called  to 
the  bar,  and  in  i88j  was  made  a  Queen's 
Counsel.  .Since  his  admission  to  the  bar  he 
has  practised  his  jinifession  in  .St.  John  with 
marked  success.  In  May,  i88j,  he  was  ap- 
pointed .Attorney-Ceneral,  and  in  tiie  same 
month  was  also  elected  to  the  local  Legislature 
for  the  city  of  St.  John.  He  remained  a  mem- 
ber of  the  government  until  March,  1883,  when, 
con.ie([uent  up<in  its  defeat,  he  resigned  with 
his  colleagues,  although  he  continued  to  act  in 
opposition  until  the  Legislature  was  dissolved. 
In  1886  he  was  again  a  candidate  for  the  local 
Legislature,  but  sustained  a  defeat.  In  18S7 
he  was  a  candidate  for  the  Dominion  Parlia- 
ment at  tlie  general  elections  for  the  district 
and  county  of  .St.  John,  with  C.  A.  leveret, 
but  was  again  defeated.  In  1891,  however,  he 
was  elected  for  the  city  of  .St.  John.  In  pidi- 
tics  Judge  McLeod  is  a  Liberal  Conservative. 
In  religious  faith  lie  is  a  Ha|ilist. 


/^_K()R(iI':  McKl'iAN,*  who  for  thirty 
\^P*J_  years  has  been  identified  with  the 
lumber  interests  of  New  lirunswick,  was  born 
in  Armagh,  Ireland,  in  184J.  In  1867  he 
was  sent  out  from  his  native  land  to  .St.  John, 
\.|{.,  as  representative  of  the  firm  of  I'"iancis 
Carvill  &  .Son,  and  after  continuing  in  that 
capacity  until  1872  was  admitted  to  partner- 
ship, the  firm  name  being  changed  to  Carvill, 
McKean    &    Co.      The   concern,    which    trans- 


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actei'  a  large  business,  was  dissolved  in  1883; 
and  Mr.  McKean  immediately  engaged  in 
business  alone.  At  tlio  present  time  he  is 
one  of  the  must  extensive  dealers  in  the  city, 
haiuiling  nKinui'attureil  lumber  to  the  amount 
of  about  one  million  dollars  annual!)';  and  be 
ships  cargoes  to  ICurope,  Africa,  and  y\ustralia. 

In  1873  Mr.  McKean  was  joined  in  marriage 
with  Annie  J.  McGiver,  daughter  of  the  late 
R.  P.  McGiver,  of  .St.  John.  They  have  tiiree 
children  —  Mary  I-".,  William  Kirk,  and 
George  R. 

Mr.  McKean  is  a  Master  Mason,  anil  be- 
longs to  New  l^runswick  Lodge. 


|i(IL\Rl)  lIOCKb'.N,*  for  many  years 
)ne  of  the  leading  merchants  of 
Chatham,  N.B. ,  was  born  in  l,is- 
keard,  county  of  Cornwall,  b'.ngland.  'I'he 
following  facts  in  regard  to  Mr.  Ilocken's  life 
and  business  career  are  taken  mainly  from  an 
oliituary  published  in  a  local  iiaper  at  the  time 
(if  his  death,  which  occurred  in  his  seventy- 
seventh  year. 

Mr.  llocken  "came  to  Chatham,  .September 
22,  1 841,  as  accountant  in  the  customhouse 
of  the  port,  when  the  late  Mr.  Wright  was 
collector,  under  the  imperial  authorities,  and 
the  custom-house  was  at  lUishvillc,  (piite 
near  the  present  residence  of  Judge  Wilkinson. 
i)n  the  11th  October,  1846,  he  was  ajjpointed 
Sub  collector  at  Hathur.st,  and  on  the  24th  July, 
i>^48,  he  was  appointed  Controller  of  Customs 
and  .Navigiition  Laws  at  Richibucto. "  He 
"ceased  to  be  an   imperial  officer  October  21, 


1850,  and  engaged  in  business  at  the  stand  he 
occupied  at  the  time  of  his  death."  Success- 
ful in  business,  he  left  a  substantial  fortune. 
Among  the  principal  bequests  outside  those  to 
members  of  the  family  and  other  relatives  were 
two  tiiousand  dollars  to  the  Diocesan  Church 
.Society,  <jne  thousand  dollars  to  the  Institute 
for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  Lredericton,  and  one 
thousand  dollars  to  the  St.  John  Protestant 
Orphan  Asylum. 

Mr.  Hocken's  funeral,  although  the  travel- 
ling was  very  bad,  was  largely  attended, 
friends  coming  from  Newcastle,  Douglastown, 
Nelson,  Loggieville,  and  other  places.  'I'heie 
was  a  private  house  service  conducted  i)y  the 
Rev.  Cacon  I'"or.syth,  rector  of  St.  Paul'.s,  who 
also  conducted  the  public  services  at  the 
churchyard.  yXpproiiriate  music  was  rendered 
by  the  choir  of  .St.  Paul's,  led  by  George 
Hurchill,  ICsq. ,  organist.  The  general  sorrow 
felt  and  e.xiMcssed  at  the  decease  of  Mr. 
llocken  was  attributable  to  his  many  admi- 
rable (pialities  as  a  man  and  citizen.  Tlie  pub- 
lished obituary  above  referred  to  says  of  him: 
"He  was  a  man  of  strong  and  di.stinct  individ- 
uality. His  integrity  was  luiquestioned,  his 
firmness  of  purpose  uncompromising.  His 
conclusions  were  always  reached  by  methods 
of  his  own;  for  he  thought  and  acted  for  him- 
self, regardless  of  environment  or  the  views  of 
others.  In  his  business  and  private  life  he 
was  the  embodiment  of  ct)nservatism,  although 
an  ultra-Liberal  in  politics.  He  bent  very 
slowly,  if  at  all,  to  the  social  ideas  of  the  day, 
if  doing  so  would  involve  any  deiiarture  from 
those  of  the  good  old   Colonial   times;  and   he 


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was  intolerant  of  ostentation  in  any  form.  In 
channels  of  which  he  had  knowioclye  he  dis- 
pensed a  charity  by  no  means  stinted.  It  was 
as  free  and  adei|uate  as  it  was  (|uietly  exer- 
cised. It  was  bestowed  as  a  duty  as  well  as 
a  pleasure,  and  seldom  where  it  was  mule- 
served.  Those  who  knew  him  intimately  re- 
member al.so  how  lie  coidd  unbend  and  be  as 
genial  as  be  was  genuine  and  orii^inal  in  bis 
character;  and  he  was  hospitable  in  tJie  tiiie 
old-fashioned  way. " 

Mr.  Iloeken  married  Susannah,  dauj^liter  of 
the  late  Michael  .Samuel,  one  of  the  leadin.i; 
merchants  of  Chatham,  whose  i)lace  of  business 
was  on  Water  Street,  where  the  IJenson  IHock 
now  stands.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ilocken  were  the 
parents  of  eight  children  —  John  Joseph,  Mary 
C.  P.,  Richard  .S. ,  .Susan  V..,  Sophia  I'",.,  Flor- 
ence N.,  Michael  S. ,  and  Flizabetii.  The  bd- 
iowing  is  a  brief  record  :  — 

John  Josejib,  born  June  :32,  1S47,  who  was 
an  accountant,  went  fust  to  St.  John,  tbence 
to  Montreal,  and  tbence  to  Winnipeg,  wlieie 
he  died  in  1890.  Mary  C".  1'.,  born  November 
4,  184S,  is  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Richmond 
Shreve,  sometime  rector  of  the  Cliurch  of  the 
Holy  Innocents,  Albany,  X.^^ ,  now  located 
at  Cooperstown,  \.\'.  RicJiard  .S.,  burn  July 
17,  1850,  is  an  accountant  at  the  Dominion 
Cotton  Mills  at  Moncton.  He  married  Miss 
Minnie  Cowling,  of  Moiutcm,  who  is  now  de- 
ceased. .Susan  ]•;.,  l)orn  T'eiiruary  11,  1852, 
is  the  wife  of  tiie  lion.  Allan  Ritchie,  of 
Newcastle.  Sophia  V..,  born  l-'ebruary  19, 
1854,  is  the  wife  of  R.  15.  Joyce,  of  'roronto, 
Ont.      I'"]orence    X.,  born   April    26,    1856,    is 


the  wife  of  Jobn  Rogers,  of  Montreal.  Michael 
.S. ,  born  March  14,  1858,  was  associated  with 
his  father  in  business,  succeeded  bim  at  bis 
death,  and  is  now  cairying  on  the  business. 
Ivlizaiieth  was  born  July  14,   1860. 

The  mother,  INIrs.  .Susannah  Ilocken,  who 
was  born  (Xlober  3,  i8jo,  died  January  26, 
1876.  Mr.  Ilocken  was  a  veslr)nian  of  St. 
I'aul's  CiuuHh. 


IIARLKS  A.  rb:CK,*  a  well  known 
lawyer  of  Albert,  N.H.,  has  been 
prominently  idenlilied  with  the  ]iub- 
lic  antl  jiolitical  interests  of  Albert  County 
during  the  greater  part  of  bis  active  life.  A 
son  of  l'",lisha  I'eck,  Jr.,  be  was  born  iXugust 
12,  1840,  at  tlie  old  I'eck  bomestead  on  Hope- 
well Hill,  where  he  has  always  resided. 

His  paternal  grandfather,  ICIisha  I'eck,  Sr., 
was  born  and  reared  in  the  United  .States,  but 
when  a  young  man  emigrated  with  a  large 
colon)'  of  Loyalists  to  Canada,  coming,  jire- 
sumably  in  1783,  to  New  Hrunswick.  He 
secured  from  the  Mritisb  (lovernment  an  exten- 
sive grant  of  land,  lying  in  Albert  County,  on 
a  part  of  which  the  present  village  of  Albert 
was  built.  Devoting  himself  to  agricultural 
pursuits,  he  cleared  a  substantial  homestead, 
and  for  many  \ears  held  a  place  of  prominence 
in  the  comnumity.  Of  bis  eight  children, 
I'^lisba,  Jr.,  was  tlie  second  son. 

Klisha  I'eck,  Jr.,  was  l)oni  in  Hopewell, 
N.  H. ,  as  the  town  of  Albert  was  then  called. 
I*"rom  his  earliest  years  he  worked  at  farming 
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to  the  iiwiicisliip  (if    tlu'   parental   honiesteail. 
A  man  of  good  business  ([ualifications,  he  he- 
came  a  large  operator  in  real  estate,  and  one  of 
the  leadinji  men  of  the  town      I'or  many  years 
he  was  Captain  of  the  old   militia   eonipany  <if 
Hopewell,  and  later    in    life  served   as  Jnstiee 
of  the  Peace.      lie  married   Sarah,  daiiKhter  of 
Nathaniel    Hrewster,   .vnd   of   their  eij;ht  chil- 
dren   two    are    still    living      Jiulson    H.    and 
Charles   A.     Jiulson    married    Annie    Tnrner, 
of  Dorchester,  N.H.,  and  they  have   five  chil- 
dren —  Albert,   Elizabeth,    C.eorge,    John,    and 
Jane.       Hoth    parents   have  passed  to  the   life 
beyond,  the  father  livinj;  to  the  advanced  age 
of    eighty-seven,    and   the    mother    to    that    of 
seventy-two.       Hotli   belonged   to    the    ikiptist 
church.      A  sketch  of  one  of  their  grandsons, 
John  Lewis  I'eck,  may  be   found   elsewhere   in 
this  work. 

Charles  A.  I'eck  acc|uired  the   rudiments  of 
his  education  in  tlie  (iranimar  School  of  Ali)ert 
County,  and  was  afterwards  a  student    in   the 
]?aptist     Institution     of     Fredericton,      N.H. 
Then  for  five  years  he  studied  law  in  Dorches- 
ter,   N.  H.,   under  the  late  Sir  Albert   Smith. 
Admitted  to  the  bar,  he  was  for  five  years  the 
law   partner  of  the   late   Hon.   HHss  Hotsford, 
their  office  being  located    in   Moncton.      From 
1867  until  1H70  Mr.  I'eck   represented   Albert 
County    in    the    New    lirunswick     legislature. 
I'or  several  years  thereafter  he  was  associated 
with  local  railway  companies  in  a  legal  capac- 
ity, or  as  an   officer.      lie  was  the   first  i)resi- 
dent    of    the   Albert    Southern    Railway   Com- 
])any,     and      was     subsequently     one     of      its 
directors.      I-'or  fourteen  consecutive  years  he 


was  the  solicitor  of  the  Albert  Railway,  now 
called  tiie  Salisbury  &  Harvey  Railway,  and 
for  a  number  of  terms  was  a  trustee  of  the 
grammar  schools  of  Albert  County.  Mr.  I'eck 
was  also  active  in  military  affairs  for  a  long 
time,  being  Captain  of  tlie  Albert  Militia 
Company  when  it  was  first  organized.  In  1893 
he  was  appointed  (Jueen's  Counsel.  In  1894, 
still  retaining  his  residence  at  the  old  ancestral 
homestead  on  Hopewell  Hill,  he  opened  a  law 
office  in  Albert,  where  he  is  actively  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession.  In  politiLS 
he  is  a  Conservative,  and  he  is  now  .serving  as 
Referee  in  luiuity  of  Albert  County.  He  is 
an  influential  member  of  the  Local  Court, 
A.  ().  F.,  of  Albert,  in  which  he  has  passed 
the  various  chairs. 

Mr.  I'eck  married  yXinelia  Nichols,  daughter 
of  Solomon  Nichols,  of  St.  John,  N.H.,  the 
first  president  of  the  bank  of  New  )?runswick. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  I'eck  have  three  children:  Harry 
H.,  who  is  employed  in  the  Railway  Mail  Ser- 
vice of  the  Hritish  (ioveinment ;  Charles  Alli- 
son, Jr.,  a  druggist  in  Hillsboro,  N.  H.  ;  and 
Celia.  Mrs.  I'eck  is  a  nieniiier  of  the  b'.pis- 
copal  church,  and  Mr.  I'eck  is  a  liberal  sup- 
porter of  various  religious  organizations. 


^JON.  JOHN  Ml'-.RCl-.R  JOHN. SON, 
M.I'.,*  a  former  resident  of  Chatham, 
now  deceased,  was  born  in  October, 
1818,  in  Liverpool,  iMigland,  where  his  father 
was  a  lumber  merchant.  His  fatiier,  emigrat- 
ing to  Miramichi,  N.  1?.,  and  becoming  Sheriff 
of  Northumberland  County,  he  was  educated  in 


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tlu"  ;,'iammar  schools  of  that  county,  ami,  siih- 
SL'<|iH'ntly  studying  law,  was  called  to  the  bar 
in  1S40. 

A  man  of  j;icat  force  of  chaiactcr  and  more 
than  ordinary  intellectual  power,  John  Mercer 
Johnson  not  only  achieved  fame  in  liis  chosen 
professicm,  hut  also  obtained  political  honors, 
{•'rom  1.S54  to  1X56  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Kxecutive  Council  ami  Solicitor-Cieneral  of 
New  Hrunswii'k.  IIeresij;ne(i  his  position  as 
minister,  owin;,'  to  a  difference  with  the  Lieu- 
tenant Governor,  lie  was  I'ostmaster-General 
from  June,  1S57,  to  October,  1S5S,  remaining, 
howe\er,  a  member  of  the  government  without 
otTice  until  l''ebruary,  1S59.  lie  was  .Speaker 
of  the  House  ol  Assemh'y  from  that  date  until 
October,  iS()2,  when  he  resigned  to  take  the 
office  of  Attorney-General,  which  he  held  until 
1S65,  when  his  party  was  retired  from  power. 
He  sat  in  the  House  of  Assendily  as  a  member 
from  Nnrlliinuberland  from  1.S50  until  the 
union,  which  he  was  most  active  in  bringing 
about,  and  hence  has  l)een  frccpicntl)'  called 
the  "I'"atlier  of  the  Confederation.  " 

Mr.  Jolinson  was  married  in  iS^o  to  Henri- 
etta, third  daughter  of  A.  1).  .Shireff,  Ksq.,  of 
Miramichi,  formerly  an  olTicer  in  the  Hritisb 
army.  By  this  union  there  were  .si.\  children, 
five  sons  —  John,  William  C,  ICdward,  An- 
drew, and  Campbell — and  one  dauglitcr. 

John,  born  in  Chatham  May  26,  1X4^),  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools,  and  subse- 
(juently  was  employed  by  his  uncle,  John 
.Sliireff,  in  the  grocery  business,  remaining 
with  him  for  some  years.  He  was  married  in 
1870  to  Miss   Louisa   Harding,  a  daughter  of 


George  H.  Harding,  of  Montreal,  and  has  five 
ihildren. 

William  C.  Johnson,  born  in  1S50,  who  is 
a  conductor  on  llie  Maine  t!eiUral  Kailroad, 
ruiming  to  and  from  lloston,  married  Mary 
l'"raser,  by  whom  he  has  had  three  sons  and 
one  daughter:  Verona,  who  is  now  deceased; 
Alexander;   l'"raser;  and  I'red. 

I'Mward  Johnson,  born  in  1S52,  received  his 
education  in  the  (!l)ath;un  (irammar  .School. 
After  leaving  sciiool  he  found  emplo)inent 
with  the  Hon.  Williau)  Ulne  &  Co.,  in  the 
mercantile  and  huniier  business,  and  remained 
witi;  them  a  number  of  years.  In  iStS^  he 
established  his  piesent  business  in  t'hatham  as 
a  dealer  in  books  and  stationery,  in  which  lie 
has  been  very  successful.  He  also  does  a  good 
business  as  a  coal  merclianl  and  as  an  express 
agent  and  railroad  ticket  agent.  He  married 
in  iSSi  Miss  [essie  Johnson,  daughter  of  Dr. 
James  Johnson.  His  wife  died  in  1  S94.  He 
is  a  member  of  tlie  Church  of  Lngland. 

.Andrew  Joimson,  burn  in  1S54,  studied 
law  with  the  Hon.  Mr.  'I'weedie,  and,  after 
being  called  to  the  bar,  practised  in  Chatham 
for  some  time.  He  is  in  Iowa.  He  married 
Kva  Harnes. 

Campbell  Johnson  received  his  elementary 
education  in  the  grammar  school,  and  subse- 
quently took  a  four  years'  course  in  the  mili- 
tary school  at  l'"redericton.  He  is  married  and 
has  three  children. 

Mrs.  Henrietta  Johnsim  survives  her  hus- 
band, and  at  the  age  of  seventy-three  )ears 
retains  to  a  remarkable  degree  her  mental  and 
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1 1. 1, 1  AM  DOllKRTY,*  member  of 
I^Y-,  il'"-'  '"■'"  "'  I^"lii^'ity  &  lM)stcr,  St. 
John,  was  Imrii  in  that  city  in  1.S45,  a  son  of 
William  and  Sarah  (Carl)  Doiierty.  His 
parents,  natives  of  Connty  Tymr.o,  Ireland, 
where  they  were  reared  and  married,  emigrated 
to  New  JJrunswiclx.  William  l)f)herty,  Sr. , 
was  a  ship-hiiilder  by  trade,  and  followed  that 
occupation  many  years.  He  was  the  father  of 
ten  children,  five  of  whom  are  now  living: 
Juliii,  who  is  a  ship-carpenter  in  .St.  John; 
Margaret,  also  a  resident  of  St.  John  and  the 
widow  of  I'atrick  Lynch;  Charles,  a  ihip-car- 
pentcr;  ]irid<;et,  who  is  the  widow  of  jnmes 
Cane,  of  St.  John;  and  William,  the  sul;ject 
of  this  sketch.  The  ])arcnts  are  no  longer 
living. 

William  Doherty  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  St.  John,  lie  served  an  apprentice- 
ship of  four  years  at  the  tailor's  trade,  and, 
after  working  for  some  time  in  St.  John  as 
a  journey  .\  went  to  I-redericton,  where  he 
remained  three  years.  Then,  returning  to  St. 
John,  he  was  foi-  a  short  time  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  I'inn  &  Doherty,  who  conducteil  busi- 
nv;.is  on  Dock  Street.  Later,  forming  a  luirt- 
ncrship  with  Lrunk  II.  h'oster,  they  located 
under  the  Revere  House  on  King  Street, 
whence  they  removed  to  Market  .Si[uare,  and 
in  1SS4  from  Market  Scpiare  to  their  [iresent 
store  at  71  Prince  William  Street,  where  they 
are  doing  an  extensive  business. 

In  1S7.S  Mr.  Doherty  married  Katie  Ma- 
iioney,  daughter  of  John  Mahoney,  a  native  ot 
Ireland.  They  have  had  five  children,  one  of 
whom,  Sarah,  died  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years. 


The  others  are:  Julia,  William  J.,  Mary,  and 
■•'rank. 

Mr.  Doherty  is  a  member  of  the  Catholic 
Mutual  Iknefit  Association.  lie  attends  the 
Roman  Catholic  Ciuirch. 


rj'TiLLNC  H.  LORDLN',*  superin- 
tendent of  tiie  Lordly  l'"urniture 
Compaii)-,  St.  John,  was  born  in 
I'"redericton,  N.  M.,  in  1S5.S,  son  of  Albert  J. 
Lordly.  His  fathei-  was  jjorn  in  Chester,  X.  .S.  ; 
and  a  more  extended  account  of  the  family  will 
be  found  in  a  sketch  of  Albert  J.  Lordly,  which 
appears  elsewhere  in  tiie  Ri:\  ii:w. 

Sterling  H.  Lordly  comi)lete(l  his  education 
in    the    St.  John    Superior   School,  which   was 
then  in  charge  of  Thomas  W.  Lee.      He  began 
his  apprenticeship  at  the  cabinet-maker's  trade 
with  Lordly  &  Howe,  and  served  seven  years. 
After  the  great  fire  of  1877  he  became  associ- 
ated  with  his  father  in  their  factory  on  City 
Road,    which    tiiey    established    in    iSSo,    and 
which  was  burned  on  July  J  I    of   the  following 
year,  causing  them  a  heavy  loss.      On  July    1, 
iSSi,  they  resumed  business  on  liroad   .Street, 
where   they   remained   until    1891,    when   they 
moved  to  the  l':iectric  Light  Building  on  I'ara- 
dise   Row.      The   business   was    carried   on   as 
a  partnershi])  concern  until  .\pril,   1897,  when 
the  Lordly   l'"urniture  Coni|)any,  Limited,  was 
organized.      This  concern,  which  manufactures 
all  kinds  of   furniture,  employs  an  average  of 
thirty  skilled  workmen,  and   under    its   present 
supprintendent  is  doing  an  excellent  business. 
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June  23,  i8«6,  with  Jean  M.  Simpson,  a 
(Liiij^htcr  of  Captain  VV.  Simpson,  of  St.  John; 
and  tJR'  (inly  iliild  of  tliis  union  died  in  in- 
fancy. Mr.  Lordly's  first  wife  died  in  May, 
18S7;  and  in  Jaiuiary,  iSy.^,  lie  married  for 
hi.s  second  wife  listher  A.  Woodley,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Woodley,  of  St.  John.  They  have 
one  son,  Guy  .Sterling. 

Mr.  Lordly  helongs  to  the  Canadian  Order 
of  ]''oresters, 

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I,  I'  k  !•:  1)  DO  DC  !•:,♦  carpenter  and 
huihler,  .St.  John,  was  hum  in  liic 
parisli  cif  I'phan),  Kinj;s  C'uunty, 
N.I5.,  in  iS^o,  a  son  of  Isaac  A.  and  Charlotte 
Harnard  (Uphani)  IJod{;e.  His  paternal  grand- 
father was  one  of  the  Loyalists  of  17S3  who 
came  to  New  Urunswick.  Isaac  A.  Dodge 
learned  the  hlacksmith's  trade,  which  he  fol- 
lowed for  a  time  in  Kings  County.  At  the 
time  of  the  Canadian  Confederation  he  was 
railway  station  master  at  Hampton,  N.  H.,  and 
was  also  serving  as  Magistrate.  He  became 
a  resident  of  .St.  John  in  1X^9,  and,  resuming 
his  trade,  was  engaged  in  general  hlacksmith- 
ing  until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  iS-j. 
His  wife,  Charlotte,  hecame  the  mother  of  nine 
children;  namely,  Charles  Cutler,  h'rancis  L. , 
(ieorge  .Sylvester,  .Sarah  J'Mizaheth,  James 
Upham,  William  Allen,  Charlotte  Havelock, 
Nathaniel,  and  Alfred.  Charles  C.  -  resides 
in  l'"airviile,  N.  M.  George  .S.  resides  in  St. 
John.  William  A.  is  a  resident  of  Manches- 
ter, Mass.  James  Upham  Dodge  resides  in 
the  United  States.      Nathaniel  died  in  child- 


hood.    The  mother  (lied  in  '895,     The  parents 
were  I'^jiiscopalians. 

Alfred  Dodge  accompanied  his  jiarents  to 
.St.  John  when  eight  years  old,  and  his  eduia 
tion  was  completed  in  the  schixds  of  this  city. 
y\t  the  age  of  nineteen  he  began  to  serve  a  four 
years'  apprenticeship  to  the  carpenter's  trade 
with  Henjamin  Rider,  and,  having  become  an 
e.\|)ert  workman,  was  employed  as  hireman  f(n' 
eight  years.  Since  starting  in  business  for 
himself  in  1891  he  lias  erecteil  se\eral  fine 
residences,  including  that  of  the  Rev.  H.  L. 
McGouan  on  rriiuess  .Sticct  and  that  of  Mr. 
R.  Ratcbfonl.  He  has  also  jiut  up  a  number 
of  substantial  buildings  for  business  piu'iioses, 
and  is  regarded  as  an  able  and  reliable  builder. 

Mr.  Dodge  is  a  niember  of  Albion  Lodge, 
v.  &  A.  M,  ;  New  Ihiinswick  Chajjler,  Royal 
Arch  Masons;  and  De  M(day  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar.  He  also  belongs  to  the 
Knights  of  I'ytliias,  being  Past  Chancellor  of 
the  lodge  in  this  city. 


(^AMLS  A.NDb'.R.SUN,*  a  representative 
citizen  of  Church  I'oint,  N.15. ,  engaged 
in  tish  |)acking  and  limibering  and  in 
looking  after  his  varied  shipping  interests,  was 
born  in  this  place  mi  Jaiuiary  Ji,  1S51,  his 
])arents  being  Joliii  and  Margaret  (Loggie) 
Anderson. 

His  paternal  grandfather,  James  Andersmi, 
first,  was  born  in  .Scotland,  but  came  fnini  that 
country  and  settled  at  Church  I'oint  among  Jie 
pioneers  of  this  region.  He  was  engaged  in 
fishing  and  in  the  cultivation  of  the  soil.      His 


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wilV,  ill  m;ii(lciilini)(l  a  Miss  Murray,  was  a  na- 
tive of  I'liiue  I'idwanl  I  land,  and  l)<>rn  nf 
Scottish  parents.  She  was  ilie  niotlier  of  seven 
ciiildren,  of  wlioni  Joiin,  above  named,  was  the 
youngest. 

John  Anderson  engaged  in  farming  and  fish- 
ing with  iiis  fatlier  in  early  boyliodd,  and  in 
maturer  life  became  a  successful  lumberman, 
merchant,  and  fish  packer.  His  wife,  Marga- 
ret, who  was  the  daugiitei-  of  William  Loggie, 
one  of  the  old  settlers  on  the  Point,  bore  him 
three  sons—  James,  William,  and  John  —  and 
one  daughter,  Mary  J.  The  daughter  is  now 
the  wife  of  Donaid  I.oggie,  of  (^luirch  I'oint. 
.Mr.  John  Anderson  was  an  Pildcr  in  the  I'res- 
hyterian  church.  II  is  death  occurred  in  1S74, 
and  that  of  his  wife  in  I1S7C),  she  being  then 
sixty-two  years  of  age.  His  sons,  James  and 
John  Anderson,  form  the  firm  of  J.  W.  &  J. 
Anderson,  extensively  engaged  in  milling,  lum- 
bering, fish  jiacking,  and  mercantile  business, 
they  having  succeeded  to  the  business  estab- 
lished by  Loggie  &  Anderson. 

James  Anderson  obtained  his  education  in 
the  common  schools  of  his  native  town.  Much 
of  his  time  during  boyhood  was  sjient  in  assist- 
ing his  father  in  business,  and  since  the  death 
of  the  latter  he  has  given  his  undivided  atten- 
tion to  furthei-  developing  it.  The  reputation 
sustained  by  the  firm  to-day  fully  accords  with 
the  traditions  nf  the  old  firm,  in  which  honor- 
able dealing  was  the  first  consideration. 

In  October,  1887,  Mr.  yXndersou  was  joined 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Kate  ICllen  Peterson, 
(laughter  of  Alfred  Peterson,  of  Chatham.  Of 
this  union  si.N  children  have  been  born.      Mr. 


Ander.son  is  a  Justice  of  the  Peace.  I'or  two 
years  he  was  a  mend)er  of  the  C!ounty  Council. 
lie  holds  membership  in  the  I.  O.  !•'. ,  and  is 
financial  secretary  of  that  organization,  lie 
has  been  Postmaster  at  Church  Point  since 
1877.      Politically,  he  is  a  Liberal. 


MNSl'OKI)    W.    WILLIAMS,*   .ship 


and  tugboat  owner,  .St.  John,  was  born 
in  ( jueens  -County,  New  Brunswick, 
in  1855.  s<in  of  Jai'ies  P.  and  Catherine  (Peck) 
Williams.  Ills  p,;iernal  grandfather,  John 
Wil'iams,  who  came  from  Lngland  during  the 
latter  part  of  the  last  centuiy,  was  a  ]irosper<ius 
farmer  of  (Jueens  County,  and  for  a  number  of 
years  serveil  as  a  Magistrate.  lie  reared  a 
large  faniily,  and  lived  to  an  advanced  age. 

James  P.  Williams,  father  of  Rainsford  W. 
Williams,  was  a  native  of  (Jueens  Cmmty. 
lie  serxeil  an  ajjprenticeship  at  the  carpenter's 
trade,  which  he  followed  in  (Jueens  County 
until  1 87 J,  when  he  removed  to  .St.  John, 
where  he  is  still  carrying  on  business.  1 1  is 
wife,  whose  maiden  'lame  was  Catherine  Peck, 
was  born  in  (Jueens  County.  .She  became  the 
mother  of  nine  children,  namely:  Adenniel  H.  ; 
l'"rederick ;  Ldmund  11.  ;  Linda;  Annie;  .Sam- 
uel C.  ;  Addie;  Rainsford  W. ,  the  subject  of 
this  .sketch;  and  WV'sley.  Ademnel  15.  Will- 
iams was  learning  the  machinist's  trade,  when 
he  died  at  the  age  of  seventeen.  I'rederick 
and  lulmund  11.,  who  were  in  the  grocery  busi- 
ness in  this  city,  died  at  the  ages  of  twenty- 
seven  and  thirty  years  respectively.  Linda 
resides  in  Boston.      .Samuel   C.  and   Addie  are 


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residents  of  St.  John,  and  Wesley  is  an  engi- 
neer. Mrs.  Catherine  P.  Williams  died  in 
1894. 

Rainsford  W.  Williams  resided  in  Queens 
County  until  seventeen  years  old,  and  was  edu- 
cated in  the  j)ublic  sehools.  In  1872  he  en- 
tered the  grocery  trade,  which  was  his  husiiiess 
for  the  succeeding  twenty  yea's;  and  he  en- 
gaged in  the  shipjjin,!,^  business  in  1892.  He 
owns  a  substantially  built  tug-boat,  which  is 
employed  in  towing  vessels  in  and  out  )f  the 
harbor;  and  he  is  also  the  owner  of  three 
schooners  which  are  engaged  in  the  coasting 
trade. 

In  1895  Mr.  W'i'.lianis  was  joined  in  mar- 
riage with  Annie  Ik-tts,  who  was  born  in  the 
vicinity  of  Ncwca.stlc.  They  have  one  son, 
Walter  R. 

Mr.  Williams  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
church. 


I.HI'iRT  J.  LORDLY,*  one  of  the  lead- 
ing furniture  dealers  of  .it.  John,  was 
born  in  Chester,  N.  .S. ,  in  1S26. 
His  father,  Joseph  Lordly,  who  was  a  native 
of  Italy,  being  captured  by  the  IJrilish  while 
on  the  passage  to  New  Orleans,  enlisted  in 
the  Mritish  army  am'  served  as  a  surgeon  dur- 
ing the  Revolutionary  War.  After  the  close 
of  the  war  Joseph  Lordly  went  to  Halifax, 
N..S. ,  where  he  engaged  in  business  He  sub- 
sequently sold  out,  and,  settling  upon  a  grant 
of  land  in  C"hc  tcr,  rc-'-'ed  there  for  the  rest  -if 
his  life. 

Albert  J.   Lordly  fust  visited  .'>i.  John  when 
a  boy    in    1835;  and,  coming  here  the  second 


time  in  1839,  he  entered  the  emjiloy  of  his 
brother,  J'lseph,  Jr.,  a  commission  merchant 
and  auctioneer,  with  whom  he  remained  about 
seven  years.  Moving  to  I'redericton  in  1846, 
he  carried  on  the  same  business  there  for  five 
year.s,  or  until  185 1,  when  he  again  located  in 
.St.  John  and  ojiened  a  furniture  'tore  in  the 
old  Ward  Huilding  on  Germain  Street.  He 
has  occu])ied  continuously  since  1859  his  i)res- 
ent  salesroom  at  the  corner  of  (ierniain  and 
Churcii  Si.  jets,  and  has  been  identified  with 
the  furniture  business  longer  than  any  other 
dealer  in  the  city.  .Some  time  in  the  fifties 
he  engagctl  in  the  manufacture  of  furniture, 
establishing  a  factory  on  Waterloo  .Street, 
which  was  subsequently  burned.  Resuming 
business  on  Sidney  .Street,  his  factory,  ware- 
house, and  salesroom  were  destroyed  I\Tarch 
31,  1863,  in  another  conflagration,  which  was 
made  memorable  by  the  fact  that  the  fust 
steam  fire-engine  ever  brought  to  .St.  John  was 
then  used  for  the  first  time.  He  occupieil  the 
reconstructed  building  until  1864,  when  he 
removed  h  s  manufactory  to  Rothesay,  and  was 
located  there  until  1869.  b'orming  a  copart- 
nership .vith  Jonas  Howe,  the  firm  purchased 
tiie  propcrtv  now  known  as  Howe's  furniVurc 
factory.  His  factory  was  again  burned  in 
1873,  and,  bei.ig  rebuilt,  was  swept  away  in 
common  with  all  others  in  that  locality  during 
the  disastrous  fire  of  1877.  Dissolving  his 
partnership  with  ^Ir.  Howe  in  1878,  he  en- 
gaged in  manufacturing  in  the  same  building 
in  which  his  salesroom  is  located,  remaining 
there  some  three  years,  and  then  removed  his 
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bridge,  where  in  i8«t  he  was  visited  by  his 
old  enemy,  which  for  the  fifth  time  laid  his 
factory  in  ashes.  His  characteristic  jjcrsever- 
ance  continned  unabated;  and,  resuming?  man- 
ufactiirin,t;-  in  Haley's  Hnildini;  on  Hroad  Street, 
he  remained  there  until  leasing  the  Electric 
Light  Building  in  1.S9:!.  In  1897  he  sold  his 
manufacturing  business  to  the  Lordly  Manu- 
facturing Company,  in  which  he  has  an  inter- 
est; and  he  can  now  be  found  at  his  salesroom 
on  Germain  Street,  where  he  has  been  located 
for  the  past  forty  years. 

On  January  i,  1848,  Mr.  Lordly  married  for 
his  first  wife  the  eldest  daughter  of  Charles 
Brennan,  who  served  in  the  American  Revolu- 
tion, and  came  here  with  the  Loyali.sts  in 
I  78  V  He  was  a  son  of  Major  Matthew  Bren- 
nan,  who  for  many  years  held  a  responsible 
position  in  the  office  of  the  Provincial  Secre- 
tary. She  died  in  1878;  and  in  188:!  he  mar- 
ried for  his  second  wife  Mary,  the  third 
daughter  of  William  l'"ennety.  He  is  the 
father  of  six  children  by  his  first  wife,  namely: 
Sterling,  manager  of  the  Lordly  Manufacturing 
Company;  Charles,  manager  of  Manchester, 
Robertson  &  Allison's  {'"urniture  Department; 
Walter  A.,  who  manages  the  upholstery  de- 
partment for  the  .same  concern;  Arthur,  a 
salesman  for  the  above-named  firm;  Henry  H., 
a  gKuUiate  of  Cornell  University,  manager  of 
the  American  Light  Company  in  the  Maritime 
Provinces  and  in  charge  of  the  salt  works  on 
Prince  lulward  Island;  and  Georgiana,  wife  of 
(leorge  bred  bisiier,  of  St.  John. 

Mr.  Lordly  has  taken  an    important   part   in 
developing  the  industrial  resources  of  the  city. 


and  was  formerly  a  director  of  the  Mechanics' 
Institute.     - 

LLICN  ().  'vXRLP:,*  barrister,  of  St. 
John,  is  a  son  of  .Sylvester  Zobeskie 
luule,  Jr.  His  mother  was  in 
maidenhood  INIiss  Catherine  McC.ill  Otty,  a 
daughter  of  Captain  Allen  Otty,  R.N.,  and 
a  grand-daughter  of  Andrew  and  I'".li/.aheth  Irans 
Ciookshanks,  who  were  Loyalists.  Mr.  I'^arle 
is  a  descendant  of  Justice  ICarle  (second  son 
of  Sylvester  luule),  who  came  to  New  Bruns- 
wick from  New  Jersey  at  the  close  of  the 
American  Revolutionary  Wai'.  Justice  l':arle 
held  a  Lieutenant's  commission  (dated  New 
York,  December  18,  1781)  from  Sir  Henry 
Clinton  in  the  New  Jersey  'Volunteers,  under 
General  Skinner.  His  i)rother  lulward,  who 
held  a  Captain's  commission,  came  with  him, 
but  afterward  returned  to  New  York.  vXfter 
coming  to  St.  John,  Justice  l^arle  drew  a  city 
lot,  and  afterward  went  to  Grand  Lake,  Queens 
Countv,  N.B.  He  was  married  in  New  York 
to  .AiHiie  Lawrence  by  Hi.shop  ^b)()re.  Their 
son,  .Sylvester  Zobeskie  llarle.  M.D.,  late  of 
Kings  County,  married  Maria  Hayburn. 


(5  I  iToMAS  H.  HLAIR,*  manager  of  the 
(jjl  New  Brunswick  liranch  of  the  Bank  of 
Nova  Scotia  and  a  highly  esteemed  citizen  of 
.St.  John,  is  the  youngest  son  of  Robert  and 
Mildred  (.Anderson)  Hlair.  Robert  Blair  was 
born  in  Londonderry,  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  in 
1820,  but  came  to  this  country  with  his  mother 
when  about   fifteen  years   of    age,   his  fatiier, 


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William  IJlair,  having  died.  The  mother,  who 
was  a  very  superior  woman,  on  arriving  in  New 
l^runswick,  settled  in  St.  John.  Here  Robert 
soon  lieeame  self-supporting,  finding  emplov- 
ment  at  various  i<inds  of  mechanical  work,  and 
after  a  time  becoming  sui)eiintendeiit  in  the 
saw-mill  of  the  late  John  Robertson.  This 
position  he  filled  lor  many  years,  and  during 
the  greater  part  of  the  time  was  also  connected 
with  the  shi|iping  interests.  After  giving  up 
the  mill  work  he  lived  in  comparative  retire- 
ment for  a  time,  doing  little  c.\cept  acting  as 
agent  for  a  number  of  ships.  l''vcntually  he 
was  elected  a  director  of  the  .St.  John  (las 
Company,  and  through  his  efficient  service  in 
that  capacity  brought  the  stock  from  a  merely 
nominal  value  to  a  market  value  of  a  hundred 
and  forty  per  cent.  After  the  great  fire  of 
1.S77  lie  was  elected  ])residciit  of  the  company, 
which  through  his  efforts  became  one  of  the 
most  solid  business  corporations  in  Canada. 
He  continued  as  manager  until  a  few  years 
before  his  ileath,  which  ocurred  in  li):)^.  He 
was  also  a  director  of  the  William  Parks  Cot- 
ton Mills  Company  (  .imited).  His  wife,  who 
was  a  daughter  of  William  .Anderson,  formerly 
of  .Scotland,  was  born  in  the  north  of  Ireland. 
.She  was  the   mother  of  eight   childien,  six  of 


whom  are  li 


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.f  he 


he 


\UiS  now 


engaged  in  the  banking  business   in   .St,  John. 
Thomas  15.  Hlair,  after  attending  the  gram- 
mar school  at  .St.  John,  entered  the  en)])loy  of 
the  Hank  of  Nova  Scotia  in   .September,   1S80. 

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been  pro 


moted  til 


meiits,  he  was  in  1889  made  manager  of  one  of 
the  branch  banks,  anil,  after  serving  in  Nova 


.Scotia,  New  Brunswick,  and  Prince  Edward 
Island  successively,  was  placed  in  charge,  on 
July,  i8r)4,  of  the  .St.  John  bank.  Here  he 
has  shown  himself  thoroughly  efficient,  and 
under  his  management  the  bank  has  become 
one  of  the  strongest  financial  institutions  in 
the  Province. 


0SI:PH  SUTTON  CLARK,*  a  well- 
known  druggist  of  St.  George,  Charlotte 
County,  N.  H.,  is  alio  actively  identified 
with  other  business  enterprises  of  the  town. 
He  was  born  .Sei)teml)er  i,  1865,  in  Carleton, 
.St.  John  Count)-,  a  son  of  Joseph  .Saunder., 
Clark. 

John  Clark,  his  paternal  grandfather,  was 
born,  reared,  and  educated  in  Yarmouth,  N.  .S. 
When  a  young  man  he  established  an  extensive 
business  in  shijiping  and  lumbering;  and  this 
he  managed  alone  until  his  second  son,  Jose])h 
S. ,  who  eventually  succeeded  him,  was  old 
enough  to  assume  its  charge.  He  married 
Helen  Hunter,  whose  father  was  at  one  time 
.Sheriff  of  Yarmouth ;  aiul  they  had  a  large 
family  of  children,  as  follows:  (ieorge  Himter, 


h 


in   St.  John,    N.  li. 


married   Annie 


C(de  and  has  four  children;  two  daughters  that 
(lied  in  infancy;  Josejih  Saunders;  the  Rev. 
J.  A.  Clark,  who  was  educated  in  .Sackville, 
N.H.,  and  Lima  University,  N.Y.,  and  is  now 
a  Methodist  minister,  and  who  married   Lizzie 


Robinson,    who   dietl    leaviiii;-    tl 


iree    c 


hildr 


W 


Walk 


er,  now  Chief  of   Police  at   .St. 


John,  N.  n.,  who  married  Kate  Cleary  antl  has 
two    children  —  Kdith,    wife    of    Dr.    Steeves, 


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large,  on 
Here  he 
cut,  and 
;  become 
.itions   in 


*  a  well- 
Charlotle 
identified 
tlie  town. 
Carleton, 
Saunder.. 

itlier,    was 
mtii,  N.S. 
1  extensive 
;  and  this 
on,  J()se])h 
I,   was    (dd 
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;  one  time 
ad  a    hirj^e 
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led   Annie 
lighters  that 
;    the   Rev. 
Saclxville, 
and  is  now 
ried   Lizzie 
li   children; 
ilice  at  .St. 
ary  anil  has 
)r.    .Sleeves, 


and  Tauline,  wife  <if  Harry  Swvil;  James 
Alfred,  now  one  of  the  island  revenue  ofTicers 
at  the  custom-house  in  St.  John,  who  marrictl 
Helen  Ham  and  has  tlnee  children;  and 
Thomas  Robinson,  now  connected  with  the 
police  force  of  Hos  'mi,  Mass.,  wiio  married 
Anna  Tilton.  Jolm  ('lari<'s  jiarents  were  Jo- 
seph Saunders  and  Catherine  (Wetmore)  Clari<, 
both  of  whf)m  s])ent  their  entire  lives  in  Yar- 
mouth, >.'.  S. 

Josepli  Saunders  Claris,  fatlier  of  Joseph  Sut- 
ton Clark,  was  liorn  in  Carleton,  St.  John 
County,  and  received  his  collegiate  education 
at  the  college  at  Sackville.  After  his  gradua- 
tion he  .started  in  business  with  his  father  as 
a  .shipper  of  groceries  and  as  a  lumber  manu- 
facturer and  dealer.  After  llie  death  of  his 
father,  who  passed  away  at  the  early  age  of 
thirty-two,  he  succeeded  to  the  entire  business, 
which  he  managed  most  ably  for  many  years. 
He  was  highly  respected  an  a  citizen,  and  was 
a  member  for  several  years  of  Carleton  Lodge, 
!•'.  &  A.  M.  In  liis  religious  belief  he  was 
a  Methodist.  He  married  Jennie,  daughter  oi 
James  Jackson,  of  Halifax,  N.  S.  ;  and  they 
had  two  children  :  John  Clarence,  senior  mem- 
ber of  the  late  firm  of  Clark,  Kerr  &  Thorne, 
hardware  merciianls  in  St.  John;  and  Joseph 
Sutton. 

Joseph  Sutton  Clark  received  his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  common  schools  of  St.  Jolm,  and 
at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  began  a  lour  years' 
ai)i)reuticeship  at  tlie  drug  business,  serving 
tJie  fust  two  years  with  W.  C.  R.  Allen  and 
ihe  last  two  wilii  Mr.  McDermod.  Passing 
his   liual   cNaminalions   in    1.SS6  and   receiving 


a  first  class  diploma,  he  settled  immediately 
in  St.  Cieorge,  where  before  he  iiail  celebrated 
the  twenty-first  anniver.sary  of  his  birth  he 
established  himself  as  a  druggist;  and  since 
then  he  has  built  up  a  most  flourishing  trade 
in  that  line.  A  few  years  ago  Mr.  Clark,  with 
ciiaracteristic  energy,  started  a  fish  business  at 
Lepreau.x,  Charlotte  County,  where  he  also 
built  a  .sardine  factory  and  started  a  canning 
indu.stry.  A  man  of  keen  foresight  and  good 
judgment,  be  has  met  with  more  than  ordinary 
success  in  all  of  his  undertakings,  and  is  rec- 
ognized as  an  able  business  man  by  his  fellow- 
townsmen.  l'(ditically,  he  is  a  Liberal  and  an 
advocate  of  free  trade.  He  is  a  member  of  .St. 
George  Lodge,  !•'.  &  A.  M.,  and  of  the  Chap- 
ter No.  12,  R.  A.  M.  lie  attends  the  Metii- 
odist  churcii. 

Mr.  Clark  married  Helen,  daughter  of  A. 
Judson  and  Adelia  Seeley,  of  .St.  George;  and 
they  have  three  children  —  Joseph  Leonard, 
Helen,  and  Jackson  Sutton. 


ILLLXM  WVSl'".,*  commission  mer- 
ciiant  and  dealer  in  furniture,  a 
prominent  business  man  of  Chatham,  N.B. , 
was  born  in  Stirling  County,  Scotland,  in  tlie 
town  of  Grangemouth,  on  i''ebruary  12,  1S33, 
son  of  Henry  and  Maiy  (Walker)  Wyse. 

Henrv  Wyse  emigrated  in  1S34,  arriving  in 
the  town  of  Douglas,  N.H.,  on  May  12.  He 
engaged  in  the  bakery  business  there  1  few 
montiis,  and  in  tlie  sjiring  of  the  fidlowing 
year  moved  to  Chatiiam  and  settled  on  Water 
Street,    where  he  carried   (M1   a   bakery   and   a 


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hotel  for  some  five  years.  Removiii};  to  Duke 
Street  at  the  end  of  that  time,  he  continued 
the  same  line  of  business  tor  the  next  five 
years.  lie  then  closed  out  the  hotel,  hut  he 
manaj;ed  the  bakery  as  lonj,'  as  he  lived.  h'or 
some  time  he  was  Captain  of  the  Volunteer 
I"'ire  Company.  Ilis  death  occurred  when  he 
was  al)out  eighty-one  years  of  aj;e.  Ilis  wife 
survived  liini  four  years,  and  died  in  1S91,  at 
the  age  of  cij,4ity-four.  They  had  ei;;ht  chil- 
dren—  Mary,  William,  ]\Iar<,faret,  Henry,  John, 
Andrew,  James,  and  ^\nnie.  Mary,  the  eldest 
child,  was  born  in  .Scotland  in  iS^2.  .She 
married  .Mexaiulur  Loudoun,  a  well-to-do  mer- 
chant of  Chatham.  Margaret,  who  was  born 
in  1837,  married  Thomas  Phillips,  a  black- 
smith of  Chatham.  Henry  is  a  baker,  and  re- 
sides in  Newcastle.  He  married  for  his  first 
wife  Mary  Ann  Nicholson  and  for  his  second 
wife  a  Miss  McMasters.  John,  wlm  is  a  baker 
by  occupation  and  lives  in  Hoston,  married 
lilizabeth  Rennie,  of  Chatham.  Andrew,  also 
a  baker,  is  married  and  is  living  in  Chicago, 
111.  James  is  engaged  in  mercantile  business 
in  Chicago,  .\iinie  died  in  1S69,  at  the  ;ige 
of  twenty-one  years. 

William  Wyse  was  brought  up  in  Chatham, 
and  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  here  inider  the  instruction  of  Mr. 
James  Miller.  In  1S51  he  went  into  a  mer- 
cantile establishment,  where  he  remained  for 
about  three  years  and  a  half.  The  firm  then 
failed,  and  he  was  thrown  out  of  employment. 
He  made  use  of  the  opportunity  to  travel 
through  the  States,  and  after  his  return  he 
.spent    a    number    of    years    in    the    employ   of 


Alexander  Loudoun.  1  le  subsequently  went 
to  I'"ox  Island  and  engaged  for  a  while  in  can- 
niiij  and  preserving  salmon.  Later  on  he 
went  into  business  on  his  own  account  as 
a  dealer  in  dry  goods  and  groceries.  He  also 
canned  lobsters,  which  he  exported  to  the 
Hritish  market.  At  the  time  of  the  agitation 
over  the  (piestion  of  confederation  he  took  an 
active  jiart  in  jiolitic.-i,  and  was  a  strong  sup- 
porter of  the  late  John  A.  McDonald.  He 
held  the  office  of  Inspector  of  l-'ishcries  under 
Mr.  McDonald's  administration,  from  iSfiS  to 
iSyo,  but,  having  a  disjiute  with  IMinister 
Tupper  in  regard  to  the  payment  of  a  small 
sum  to  a  fishery  warden  and  writing  indepen- 
dently about  the  matter,  he  was  dismissed  from 
his  office.  Up  to  that  date  he  continued  in 
the  grocery  business.  In  1891  he  established 
the  furniture  business,  which  he  has  since 
conducted  successfully.  i\Ir.  Wyse  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  of  the  Royal 
.Arcanum.  In  iH.S6and  in  iScj.S  he  was  Com- 
missioner of  Roads,  anil  during  his  term  of 
office  did  much  to  beautify  the  roads  of  the 
town.  He  has  also  taken  a  strong  interest  in 
the  public  park,  and  for  twenty-five  ye.us  has 
exerted  his  intluence  toward  making  it  one  of 
the  most  beautiful  s|)ots  in  New  Brunswick,  as 
it  undoubtedly  is  to-day. 

Mr.  Wyse  was  first  married  to  Elizabeth 
Marshall,  a  sister  of  Robert  Marshall,  of  St. 
John.  .She  died  in  iiS(J4,  having  lieen  the 
mother  of  two  children,  both  of  whom  died  in 
infancy.  In  11^65  Mr.  Wyse  married  Lmma 
Peters,  daughter  of  Clharles  J.  Peters.  Of  this 
union  have  been  born  three  sons  and  a  daugh- 


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S8. 


tcr,  namely:  Clifford  W.,  who  is  in  the  poultry 
i)iisiness  at  Black  River;  Hcrnard  W. ,  who  is 
a  book-keeper  in  Brooklyn,  N.  V.  ;  lulward  H. , 
wlio  is  an  electrician  and  resides  in  Chatham; 
and  Florence.  Mr.  W'yse  has  been  a  trustee 
ol  St.  Andrew's  I'resbyterian  Ciuireh  ever  since 
its  establishment. 


||j^4()1{1-:RT  KI';RR,*  who  spent  the  clos- 
ing  years  of  his  louj;-  and  useful  life 
in  .St.  Andrews,  N.B. ,  retireii  from 
aeti\e  ])ursuits,  dietl  at  his  late  home  in  June, 
iScjo.  He  was  born  in  County  Antrim,  Ire- 
land, in  1S17,  a  son  of  the  late  John  Kerr. 

John  Kerr  eniij.;rated  from  County  Antrim, 
Ireland,  where  he  was  reared,  to  New  Bruns- 
wick, and  with  his  family  located  at  first  in 
St.  Andrews.  Soon  afterward  he  bouj^ht  un- 
improved land  in  Bocabec,  about  fifteen  miles 
from  .St.  Andrews,  and,  buildin!;  u|)  a  i;ood 
homestead,  was  there  enj^aged  in  };eneral  farm- 
inn-  until  his  death,  lie  was  a  member  of  the 
I'resbyterian  church,  and  in  ]iolitics  was  a  Lib- 
eral and  a  l'"rce  Trader.  He  married  Mary 
.Stewart,  who  bure  him  seven  ciiildren. 

Robert  Kerr  was  but  a  little  boy  wlien  be 
accompanieil  his  parents  to  /Xmerica,  tlie  long 
and  tedious  voyage  being  made  in  a  sailing- 
\essel.  After  leaving  school  he  was  engaged 
in  agricultural  pursuits  on  the  old  homestead, 
and  also  learned  the  trade  of  a  carriage-builder, 
which  he  carried  on  very  successfully  until  his 
removal  to  .St.  Andrews  in  1S79.  A  man  of 
much  force  of  character,  industrious  and  ])ru- 
dent,  he  accumulated  a  coni|)etency,  and  .spent 


bis  last  days  in  the  (piiet  enjoyment  of  the 
fruit  of  his  early  years  of  hard  labor.  He  was 
an  active  member  of  the  Churcii  of  iMigland. 
In  his  politics  he  was  a  I.iiieral  and  an  ardent 
believer  in  free  trade. 

.Mr.  Kerr  married  Mary  Jane,  'laughter  of 
John  and  Mary  llerbison.  Mrs.  Kerr  was 
born  in  Ireland,  but  in  I>S58  emigrated  to  St. 
.Ste|)hen,  N.  B.,  where  she  lived  until  her 
marriage,  when  she  settled  in  l^icabec.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Kerr  reared  four  chiklren,  namely: 
Mary,  who  lives  with  her  widowed  mothei-  in 
.St.  Andrews;  Jennie  .Stewart,  who  graduated 
at  the  Normal  .Scluxd  in  l'"redericton,  and  is 
now  a  teacher  at  St.  Andrews;  .Margaret  Ann, 
also  a  graduate  of  the  l'"redericton  Normal 
.School,  who  is  now  teaching  at  MImsville, 
N.  B.  ;  and  ^Madia  Mliza,  a  music  teacher  in 
St.  Andrews. 


I.i:XANDHR  A.  WATSON,*  book- 
seller and  stationer,  St.  John,  was 
born  in  .Selkirk,  Scotland,  .Sejiten)- 
ber  12,  1S2S,  son  i)f  John  Watson.  In  early 
life  lie  was  employed  in  the  manufacture  of 
tweeds;  and,  emigrating  to  America  in  1S54, 
be  located  in  St.  John.  lie  was  engaged  in 
various  kinds  of  business  here  until  iS"",  in 
which  year  be  entered  his  present  line  of  trade 
in  comjjany  with  his  sons,  and  shortly  after- 
ward suffered  a  total  loss  by  the  conflagration 
of  that  year.  The  firm  reopened  on  Union 
Street,  but  later  moved  to  the  store  at  the 
coiner  of  Lhiiou  and  Charlotte  .Streets,  where 
they  are  now  carrying  on  a  profitable  business. 


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Mr.  Watson  niairiocl  Aynes  Sterling,  a  na- 
tive of  (lalasliicls,  Scotlanii.  Two  of  tiicir 
cliililion  cliiil  in  infancy.  liio  li\in^  are: 
Agnes,  John  A.,  William  ("■.,  Margaret  11., 
Susan  K.,  Annie,  Clara,  Robert  .\.,  and 
Oscar.  William  (i.  VVatson  is  in  company 
with  his  father.  Margaret  II.  is  the  wife  of 
John  H.  Andrews,  of  St.  John.  Susan  K.  is 
tiie  wife  of  William  l'.  MacDonald,  of  New 
York.  Annie  married  l'"rederick  C.  Melick, 
of  .St.  John.  C'lara  and  Robert  are  residing 
in  this  city.  Oscar  is  assistant  night  manager 
of  the  Associated  I'ress  in  New  ^'ork  City, 
and  also  a  medical  student  at  tiie  College  of 
,1'hysicians  and  Surgeons. 

John  A.  Watson  was  born  in  1S54.  He  was 
reared  in  this  city,  and  completed  his  educa- 
tion under  the  guidance  of  a  Mr.  Miller. 
l'"rom  1S70  to  1S7S  he  was  employed  in  the 
West  India  goods  business;  and  then,  estab- 
lishing himself  in  the  same  line,  he  continuetl 
in  trade  until  selling  out  in  1SS2.  I*'or  the 
past  fifteen  years  he  has  been  engaged  in  the 
lithograph  business  with  the  Maritime  Litho- 
graph Company.  Mr.  Watson  is  one  of  the 
most  ])rominent  Masons  in  the  city,  and  be- 
longs to  IMiion  Lodge,  !•".  &  A.  M.  ;  Carlton 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons;  the  Council, 
Commauder\-,  and  other  bodies  subordinate  to 
the  Consistory;  and  has  taken  the  thirty- 
.secoml  degree,  Scottish  Rile,  lie  is  Past 
Deputy  (irantl  Master  of  the  Cir.uid  Lodge  of 
New  Brunswick,  1-".  &  A.  IM.  ;  Last  Deputy 
High  Priest  of  the  Crand  Chapter,  Ro\al  ;\icli 
Masons,  of  which  he  is  now  Crand  .Secretary; 
is  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand   Council,  Royal 


and  .Select  Masters;  is  a  member  of  the  Royal 
Order  of  Scotland  and  other  bodies  connected 
with  the  fraternity.  He  is  Past  Chancellor  of 
New  Urunswick  Lodge,  No.  i,  Knights  of 
Pythias,  the  first  lodge  of  that  oidcr  organized 
in  the  Dominion,  and  a  past  officer  of  the  L^ni- 
formed  Rank.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Inde- 
licndcnt  Order  of  bdresters  and  the  .St. 
Andrews  Society,  and  was  one  of  the  organ- 
izers of  the  .Sahage  Corjis. 


A.Ml'S  Db:  WOLI'P:  SPCRR,*  a  lead- 
ing citizen  of  .St.  Joiin,  N.H.,  was  born 
at  Round  Hill,  Annapolis,  N.  .S. ,  in 
1S20.  His  ancestry  is  carefully  traced  in 
the  record  given  below  of  the  .Spurr  family  of 
Nova  .Scotia,  Annapolis  Royal,  kindl)'  fur- 
nished by  a  'lu'iiiber  of  that  family:  — 

"The  e.\tensi\e  impro\einents  which  the 
l'',rencli  traders  had  made  on  the  borders  of  the 
Anna|inlis  River  became,  after  their  expulsion 
from  the  country,  an  object  of  attention  to  the 
people  of  the  ()Id  Colonv ;  and  in  I/T^  and 
I/Tjs  five  hundred  of  these  renioveil  thither  and 
obtaineil  a  grant  of  the  townshiji  of  Annapolis, 
where  they  were  soon  joined  by  a  number  of 
others.  Among  them  was  the  head  or  founiler 
of  the  .S[)uir  family  of  ,\ova  .Scotia. 

"  I'rom  reliable  sources  it  appears  that  there 
were  two  brothers  who  originall)'  came  from 
luigland  to  hoston,  .Mass.  One  of  them, 
Michael  S|iuir,  came  to  .\nnapolis  Royal, 
N.S.,  ai)iiut  tin- year  \~C'4  or  i/f>-,.  He  was 
married;  and  his  eldest  son  and  daughter,  it 
is  said,  accompanied  him.      'i'hey  were  born  in 


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583 


Hoston.  -^Thcy  were  AbrulKini  Spinr  aiitl   Mrs. 
Hartcaiix,  antl  both  resided  with  their  parents 
for  some  years  on  the  Spiirr  farm  near  Annapo- 
lis.    The  daughter  after  her  marriage  removed 
to  Hear  River.      Abraham  Spurr  was  the  grand- 
father of   Edward,  Robert,  and   Job   Sears,  all 
well-known  citizens  of  St.  John.     About  the 
year  1810  or  earlier  he  removed  to  Clements, 
some  four  or  five  miles  from  Digby.      His  wife 
was    of    I'rench    descent,    a    Miss    I.e    Caimy, 
who.sc   sister  was  married  to  the  elder  Judge 
Ritchie,     father    to    Chief     Justice     Ritchie. 
Abraham    Spurr    died    about    the    year    1817. 
Mr.    Julward    Sears,    of    St.    John,    has   a    full 
record  of  his  children,  from  which    it  appears 
that  of  a  large  family  there  are  now  living  the 
following   named:  Mrs.   H.  Hunt;  Mrs.  Sales; 
and  Abram  Spurr,  Jr.,  the  hitler  on  the  farm  at 
Clement. 

" either  children  were  born  to  iNliehael  Spurr 
after  his  removal  to  Amiapolis,  his  sons  being, 
besides  Abraham,  already  named,  Michael,  Jr., 
Sheffey,  and  Thomas.  The  last-named,  who 
was  the  youngest,  resided  during  his  life  at 
Round  Hill,  a  few  miles  from  Annapolis. 
The  daughters  were,  besides  Mrs.  Harteaux : 
Mrs.  Harris,  Mrs.   b'ritz,  and  Mrs.  Sent. 

"Michael  Siiurr,  Jr.,  had  three  sons  by  iiis 
first  wife— Isaiah,  IClijah,  and  William.  Of 
these,  IClijah  lived  many  years,  and  in  the  end 
died  at  St.  John.  One  of  his  daughters  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  Robinson;  another  married  a  Mr. 
Frost,  master  carpenter  and  owner  of  the  I'ark 
Hotel;  and  a  third  married  the  Rev.  Mr.  Addy, 
pastor  of  the  Methodist  church  at  i?ri<lgetown, 
N.S.      By  his  second  wife  Michael   Spurr  had 


three  sons  an<l  three  daughters.  Of  the  sons 
John  died  in  1822,  and  James  went  South  and 
was  never  heard  from  again.  'i"he  daughters 
were  living  and  residing  in  C.ranville  or 
Clement  in  August,   1863." 

James  He  Wolfe  Spurr's   father  was  a   son 

of  Thomas  Spurr,  youngest  son  of  the  original 

Michael,    this    making    him    a    great-grandson 

,f   the   founder   of   the    family.      His    mother, 


Amelia,  was  a  daughter  of  James  DeWolf,  of 
Bristol,  Liverpool,  N.S.,  who  came  from  Bris- 
tol,    R.I.      At    the   age    of    fifteen    Mr.  Spurr 
came  to  .St.  John  to  enter  the  office  of   Ratch- 
ford  &  Surgin  as  merchant  clerk,  and   in    1842 
his   active   business   life    began.      In    1844   be 
formed   the  copartnership  of  Allison  &  Spurr, 
which   continued  for   eleven   years.      I^arly    in 
the    history   of   this   copartnership    Mr.    Spun 
was  the  prospector  of  the  first  extensive  steam 
saw-mill    built   in    New    Rrunswick,    a    model 
mill  for  many  subsequently  built.      The   ships 
built  here  for  his  firm   were  notable  for  their 
capacity  and  excellejit  adai)tation  to  the  cotton 
and    Australian    trades.       l-'rom    1S48    to    1855 
Mr.   Spurr's  business  residence  was   Liverpool, 
I'.ngland;  but  at  the  end  of  that   time   he   re- 
turned to  .St.  John  to  take   an   active   part    as 
lirincipal    shareholder    in    the   development    of 
the    Albert    mines,    which    were    successfully 
„perated  for  twenty  years.      Mr.  Spurr  retired 
from  active  business  operations  in    1878.      He 
was  president  of  the  St.  John   Hoard  of  Trade 
in    1890  and    of   St.    C.eorge   Society   in    1892. 
lie   has  been   an    ardent   sportsman,    and   from 
1880  to  1893  was  chief  Came  Connnissioner  of 
New  Hrunswick.      He  has  been   unusually  gen- 


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emus  in  sliaiiiig  with  liis  friciuls  iiis  salmon 
pools  at  (iiand  i''alls,  famous  for  their  excel- 
k'Mt  lishing,  and  in  iiis  hosiiitality  ;a  his  aim- 
mandinj;'  and  heaulifull)' situated  fisiiin^  lodj^e, 
situated  at  a  eonvenient  distanie  from  the 
pools. 

Mr.  .Spurr  HKirried  in  1.S45  ICliza,  dau};iiter 
of  Joim  Crane,  of  Ivconomy,  N..S.  In  1876 
he  married  i-ileaiior,  daughter  of  tiie  lion. 
Alfred  Wliitnnin,  of  Annapolis,  and  in  1886 
Hannah,  dauj,diter  of  John  Hennet,  widow  of 
James  Rohertson,  late  CoUeetor  of  Customs 
of  .St.    lohn. 


/l^r,; 


IDI'O.N  IIKVNOK,*  coppersmith,  .St. 
\h^J_  John,  was  l)orn  in  Irelanil  in  iMj^j. 
His  father,  llar\ey  Hevnor,  who  was  born  in 
Ireland,  f)f  (lerman  ancestry,  emif^rated  to  New 
Brunswick  ahout  the  year  1845,  accompanied 
by  his  family,  and  located  in  St.  John.  .Sub- 
.sequently  Harvey  moved  to  the  United  States 
and  settled  njion  a  farm  in  the  immediate 
vicinity  of  Uost(in,  where  he  i.  sided  for  the 
rest  of  his  life. 

At  the  age  of  fifteen  years  Ciideon  Ilexnoi 
began  to  .serve  a  six  years'  ai)prenticeship  at 
the  co|)persmith's  trade,  which  he  afterward 
followed  as  a  journeyman  and  a.s  suiierintend- 
ent  of  a  .shop.  Returning  to  St.  John  in  1873, 
he  established  him.self  in  business  as  a  general 
coppersmith,  and  from  that  time  forward  has 
conducted  a  large  business  in  mill  and  steam- 
boat work,  plumbing,  soda-water  apparatus,  etc. 
His  is  the  only  establislnnent  in  New  Hruus- 
wick   that   is   devoted   solely   to  copjier   work. 


and  his  business  extends  all  over  the  Maritime 
Provinces  and  into  Canada. 

In  1867  Mr.  llevnor  was  united  in  marriage 
with  ICli/.a  Needhain,  a  native  of  Ireland. 
.Mrs.  Hevnor  is  a  daughter  of  George  Needham 
and  a  sister  of  the  Neeilham  brothers,  well- 
known  evangelists.  Mr.  and  ^Irs.  Hevnor 
have  bad  six  children  —  .Susan  Jane,  Ceorge 
Albert,  .Sarah  CuMtiiule,  Ciideon  Needham, 
Henjaniin  I'rederick,  ar.d  Alice  I'-lizabeth. 
;  'san  Jane  died  at  the  age  of  seven,  (leorge 
Albert  at  that  of  eight,  and  .Sarah  (lertrudc  at 
that  of  seventeen  3ears.  (iideon  .Needham 
Hevnor,  who  is  in  business  with  his  lather, 
married  Alice  .Stearns;  and  his  children  are 
(iideon  lleiuy  and  Helen  Certrude.  Menja- 
niin  I'rederick  is  also  in  business  with  his 
father.  Mi'.  Hevnor  belongs  to  the  Indepen- 
dent Order  of  Odd  l''ellowH.  I  le  is  a  member  of 
the  Congregational  church,  which  he  has  served 
as  trustee. 


KRKDKRICK  WATSON,*  mer- 
chant and  shiji-owner,  ."^t.  John,  was 
horn  in  that  city  in  1856,  son  of  James 
and  Hannah  (I'urdy)  \\'atson.  His  jiaternal 
great-grandfather  came  to  New  Ihunswick  with 
the  Loyalists  in  1783,  antl  was  a  farmer.  Mr. 
Watson's  grandfather,  John  Watson,  who  was 
a  pilot  and  master  of  vessels  on  the  .St.  John 
Ri\er  during  bis  acti\e  years,  died  at  the  age 
of  seventy-eight.  His  wife  was  also  of  Loyal- 
ist descent,  and  they  reared  a  family  of  se\'en 
children.  James  \\'atson  was  born  in  Queens 
County,    N.  H.      He  followed  boating  until   he 


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sUirled  in  tlie  {.'.L-ncral  iirti:;i utile  Ijiisincss  on 
his  own  account  in  St.  John  in  1S54;  and  in 
connection  with  this  he  was  extensively  en- 
{{aged  in  siiippin}^,  ownin;;-  a  larf,'e  fleet  of 
coastinff-vessels.  lie  was  an  active  mcmher 
of  tile  liaptist  chiucli.  His  wile,  I  lannaii 
I'nrdy,  was  a  ijau.nliter  ol  Jonathan  I'nrdy. 
They  were  the  parents  of  twelve  children,  lour 
of  whom  died  in  infancy,  and  one  dauj;hter 
died  at  the  a^e  of  fdleen.  Among  those  who 
still  survi\e  are:  J.  I'"rederick,  I'.nnna,  Janies, 
and  h'rank.  lunma  is  the  wife  of  Charles  S. 
I'hillips,  of  St.  John.  James  and  l'"rank  are 
in  Inisiness  with  their  hiother.  The  parents 
are  no  longer  living.  J.  I'"rederick  Watson 
was  educateil  in  the  schools  of  .St.  John.  Upon 
leaving  school  he  entered  the  employ  of  his 
father,  and  after  the  hitter's  death  succeeded 
to  the  husiness  in  company  with  his  brothers. 
They  are  now  carrying  on  a  iirofitahle  enter- 
prise, and  control  a  fleet  of  ten  \essels.  Mr. 
Watson  is  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  h'ellows. 


kOHl'.RT  yXI.LISON  HORDKN*isan 
inlluential  citizen  and  one  of  the  leail- 
in^H'  lawyers  of  Moncton,  N.  H.  He 
was  born  at  Avonport,  Kings  County,  N.  S. , 
February  3,  1845,  on  the  old  Borden  home- 
stead, which  is  still  owned  and  occupied  by 
his  father,  George  N.  Horden.  He  comes  of 
pioneer  stock,  his  great-grandfather,  Terry 
lioiden,  who  was  born  and  brought  up  in  New 
Jersey,  having  removed  when  a  young  man  to 
Nova   Scotia,   where   he  (I'erry)  received   from 


the  goveriniient  a  grant  of  land  that  hail  been 
taken  from  the  expelled  Acadians.  He  cleared 
a  large  farm,  and  became  one  of  the  leading 
men  of  his  connnunity.  I'erry  Horden  was 
twice  married.  His  first  wife,  whose  name  is 
unknown,  died  in  early  life,  leaving  two  sons. 
He  subsequently  married  a  Miss  I'.lls,  who 
bore  him  nine  sons,  of  whom  Joshua,  the 
grandfather  of  Robert  A.,  was  the  third  in 
order  of  birth. 

Joshua  Horden  was  Ikjiii  in  Avonport,  N. S., 
in  1774;  and  his  years  of  activity  were  spent 
chieHy  in  tilling  the  .soil.  On  the  homestead 
which  he  developed  from  heavily  timbered  land 
he  spent  his  wedded  life,  and  tliere  died  in 
1857,  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-three  years. 
Of  his  union  with  Catherine  h'uller  three  ehil- 
tlren  were  burn,  of  wh(fm  two  (jcorge  N.  and 
Hiram  —  survive.  The  latter  married  Mary 
Card,  of  Hantspo.t,  N.S. ,  and  has  six  children 
--William,  Amanda,  Bessie,  l^lfrida,  Au- 
gusta, and  Minnie.  Hoth  Joshua  and  Cather- 
ine were  members  of  the  Methodist  church, 
and  in  politics  the  former  was  a  Liberal. 

George  N.  ]5orden  succeeded  to  the  owner- 
ship of  the  old  homestead  on  which  he  was 
born,  and  is  still  industriously  engaged  in  its 
management.  A  man  of  sterling  traits  of  char- 
acter, hone.st  and  upright  in  all  his  dealings, 
he  is  held  in  high  respect  by  his  fellow-men, 
and  is  numbered  among  the  leading  farmers 
and  citizens  of  Avonport.  1  le  married  Miriam 
S.,  daughter  of  Joseph  Crane,  of  that  place. 
She  dieil  at  the  age  of  fifty  years,  leaving  three 
children:  Robert  Alli.son,  the  subject  of  this 
brief   sketch;   Hyron   C,   who   in   Jinie,    1880, 


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ninrricif  Alice,  (laiii,'litcr  of  William  Uliick,  of 
llamilldn,  licnmula,  and  who  has  two  chililrcn 
—  Gladys  A.  and  IHainc  Allison,  twins,  born 
December  i.X,  1S.S7;  and  l.ila,  wife  of  Renbcn 
S.  Smith,  of  Someivillc,  Mass.,  who  has  two 
ihildren  —  Marian  and  Donald  H. 

Robert  Allison  Hordcii  received  bis  elenu'iit- 
ary  education  in  ijie  common  schools  of  Avon- 
port,  X.  S. ,  after  wl)icb  he  went  to  Lower 
Jlorton,  N.S.,  where  he  attended  Mr.  Tatter- 
son's  private  school,  called  Accaci  \'illa.  He 
sub.'iequcntly  graduated  at  Sackville  College, 
Sackville,  N.H. ,  witii  the  di.';;rce  of  Jiacbelor 
of  Arts,  and  immediately  after  began  tlic  study 
of  law  with  the  firm  of  Wettniore  &  Marker. 
The  members  of  this  firm  were  prominent 
lawyers.  One  of  them,  Mr.  W'ettmoie,  be- 
came a  judge  of  the  .Sujireme  t'ourt  of  New 
Ibunswick;  while  the  other,  Mr.  Harker,  is  at 
the  ])resent  time  a  judge  of  that  court.  At 
the  end  of  three  years  of  stead)'  application  to 
iiis  law  studies  Mr.  Horden,  on  Marih  S,  1.S73, 
was  admitted  as  attorney,  and  ojiencd  an  office 
in  connection  with  C.  A.  Ilolstead,  and  under 
the  firm  name  of  I  lolstead  &  Uoiden  piactised 
law  in  Moncton  for  four  years.  Vnv  several 
years  thereafter  Mr.  Hordcn  was  in  partnership 
willi  Henry  Atkinson,  and  subsecjuently  c<in- 
tinued  his  professional  labors  as  head  of  the 
firm  of  Horden  &  Simonds,  of  which  C.  A. 
Simonds  was  the  junior  member.  Since  tiie 
dissolution  of  that  lirm  Mr.  liorden  has  carried 
on  business  alone,  and  has  now  an  extensive 
and  remunerative  practice.  He  has  been  asso- 
ciated with  different  corporations  and  com- 
panies, having  l)een  solicitor  and  secretary  of 


the  Moncton  Water  and  das  Works;  solicitor 
for  the  Moncton  .Sugar  Relinery  Company  and 
for  the  Moncton  Cotton  Woiks;  anil  at  the 
present  time  is  solicitor,  secretary,  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Moncton  l'".leetric  Railway  Com- 
pany. I'"(n-  a  nmnber  of  terms  after  the  incor- 
poration of  the  city  lie  served  as  City  Solicitor 
and  City  Clerk.  In  [lolitics  he  is  a  Liberal 
Conservative. 

Mr.  Horden  was  married  October  11,  1876, 
to  Annie,  daughter  of  William  Smith,  of  .Sus- 
se.v,  N.  IV,  anil  has  two  children  -  Lila  R.  and 
Sarah  A.  Mr.  and  Afrs.  liorden  attend  the 
services  of  the  Church  of  Ijigland,  of  which 
Mrs.   Borden  is  a  connnunicant. 


(sTr  1.1:.\.\\1)I';R  (iinSO.X,*  of  Marysville, 
y*^  \'(irk  County,  a  leading  hunbcr  and 
v.-'  cotton  manufacturer  and  one  of  the 
largest  mill-owners  in  Canada,  is  a  native  of 
New  Ibiuiswick,  having  been  born  in  Cliarlotte 
County.  He  began  industrial  life  wiliiout 
other  capital  than  a  strong  constitution,  a  de- 
termined will,  a  good  capacity  for  woik,  and 
an  eminently  keen  and  practical  mind.  After 
working  a  while  in  the  mills  of  Milltown, 
Charlotte  County,  for  a  dollar  a  day,  he  staited 
in  business  for  himself  in  that  place  with  a 
small  capital,  hut  soon  tran  ,ferreil  his  opera- 
tions to  Lcpreaux.  The  bnnbermen  of  that 
section  pi  ior  to  his  time  had  nu't  with  repeated 
failure;  but  be  won  success,  and  retired  from 
the  river  with  a  large  amount  of  money. 
'I'hen,  more  than  thirty  years  ago,  he  came  to 
the  Nashwaak  and  bought  the  mills  and  prop- 


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S«7 


crt)-,  incliulin^;  si'\cn  iIkuismiuI  ncros  nl  splun- 
didly  timljL'ied  land,  all  t(>};ctlicr  valued  at  (jiic 
lumdicd  and  thirty  (hdiisand  dollars,  from 
Robert  Rankin  &  Co. 

(In  coninioni'in^;-  o|icialioMs  on  the  river,  Mr. 
fiii)son  saw  at  onee  that  the  ]iiinei|)al  ohstriie- 
tion  to  he  nvereonic  was  a  larjje  hooni  hchi  hy 
a  mile  or  two  of  piers,  lie  immediately  com- 
nieneed  the  construction  of  dams,  and  increased 
the  river  facilities  so  miiih  that  no  driver  has 
ever  yet  been  "hinij;  np  "  on  the  stream  since 
he  took  possession.  lie  also  had  his  lands 
carefully  exi)lored  and  surveyed.  .Some  of 
these  he  [)urchasetl  at  public  auction  from  the 
crown;  others  he  bought  from  the  New  Uruns- 
wick  and  Nova  Scotia  Land  Conipaiiy,  and  be 
has  tiius  ai'C|uire(l  all  the  most  valuable  land 
(nearly  one  hundred  and  seventy  thousand 
acres)  on  the  river.  .Since  he  came  to  Marys- 
ville  he  has  cut  fnll\  si\  hundred  million  feet 
of  lof;s  into  deals  on  the  Nasbwaak  River.  He 
has  also  a  mill  at  HI  ickville,  on  the  Can  ida 
I'/istern  Railwa\,  that  employs  thirty  men  and 
cuts  about  live  million  feet  of  lumber  annu- 
ally, a  jiroperty  which  he  bouj;bt  from  the 
Messrs.  barley.  The  deals  .ue  brought  by  rail 
to  Gibson,  and  there,  with  the  prmluct  of  the 
Marysville  mill,  are  placed  upon  lighters  spe- 
cially built  by  Mr.  (iibson,  and  towed  to  .St. 
John,  wheut'e  the  larj;c  hunbcr  is  sent  to  I'.ng- 
bnul  and  the  shingles  and  laths  are  shi[)ped 
to  the  I'nited  .States.  Mr.  (iibson  employs 
thii'ty  men  at  l^lackville  in  lumbering,  ninety 
men  at  Marysville  in  the  saw-mill,  sixty-five 
in  the  lath-mill,  and  thirty-sc\en  in  the  new 
shingle-mill,    which    is    one    of    the    finest    in 


Canada.  .At  the  boom  there  are  twenty-five 
men  and  on  the  stream  in  the  s|iring  about 
three  hiindreil  and  eighty  men  in  his  service. 
His  lundier-mills  are  fully  c(|uippc(l  with  the 
latest  improvements  in  labor  saving  machinery. 

The  fame  of  Mr.  Gibson's  cottonniill  ha.s 
gone  throughout  Canada  and  beyond,  it  beinfj 
the  largest  single  mill  in  the  Dominion.  It 
employs  at  present  five  hundred  hands,  but 
coidd  accommodate  two  and  ;i  half  times  as 
many.  It  was  built  from  bricks  manufactured 
by  him  within  a  stone'sthrow  of  the  slructme, 
and  at  il.s  completion  in  1S.S5  was  fitted  with 
the  latest  machinery,  some  of  which  has 
already  been  replaced  by  that  of  more  modern 
construction.  It  is  lighted  by  electricity  from 
Mr.  Gibson's  own  (l\namos;  and  near  by  is 
a  splendidly  e(|uii)ped  machine  simp,  where 
machines  are  built  or  repair  d  by  skilled  work- 
men. 'I'he  whole  plant  is  ampl\'  proteited 
against  fire  by  b)'drants  or  ])ipes  and  an 
abundant  sup|ily  of  hose.  English  experts  re- 
cently declared  that  this  mill  smpassed  in  its 
e(|uii)ments  the  vast  majority  of  baiglish  ccjtlon 
factories.  The  brickyard  is  still  in  operation, 
and  keeps  from  twenty  to  thirty  men  busy. 

To  the  large  nimiber  of  wooden  tenement- 
houses  built  for  his  workmen  Mr.  Gibson  has 
added  nearly  fifty  two-story  brick  houses,  each 
to  acconmiodate  two  families,  besides  several 
dozen  large  boarding-houses,  so  that  probablv 
the  operators  in  no  other  factoiy  town  in  Can- 
ada are  so  well  boused  as  those  in  Marysville. 
Not  a  drop  of  intoxicating  liipior  has  ever  been 
sold  in  the  place,  and  iii  other  ways  the  best 
interests    of     the     community     are     carefully 


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Hu;ii(lcil  liy  liini  to  wlinm  the  town  .iiid  its 
iiuliistiics  owe  their  hirlh.  The  tnwn  h;is  hail 
a  .steaiiy  fjiowlh,  and  is  still  (jrowiiij;.  The 
t.vd  lar^'e  stores  and  a  line  hiitel  were  luiilt  by 
Mr.  (iil)S(iii.  The  Mcthddist  eluirch,  witii  its 
line  interior  finish,  handsome  frescoes,  and 
stained-Klass  windows,  was  also  erected  hy  him 
at  a  cost  of  njnvard  of  fifty  thonsand  duliars. 
The  orj^an  placed  in  it  was  his  {.■;ift,  and  the 
salary  of  the  organist  is  paid  hy  liiin.  He 
also  ;;ave  the  site  for  the  Anglican  church. 
In  the  town  there  are  also  three  other  churches 
—  the  Jiaptist,  the  l'"rce  Comnuniion  Haptist, 
and  the  Refornied  baptist.  Tliere  are  also  fine 
.schools,  a  public  liall,  a  public  skating  rink, 
and  a  brass  band  of  twenty  |)ieces.  \'arious 
fraternal  organizations,  including  the  Odd  1 'el- 
lows,  the  I'oresters,  and  the  Sons  of  Temper- 
ance, are  also  represented  by  lodges.  In  addi- 
tion to  his  other  benefactions,  .Mr.  Clilison  has 
presented  to  the  town  a  new  public  ball,  a 
large  public  lii)rar}',  and  a  line  site  for  a  trot- 
ting [lark.  It  has  been  the  rule  of  his  life  to 
provitlc  his  employees  wilii  every  possible 
facility  for  comfort,  culture,  and  legitimate 
amusement.  The  steel  railway  bridge  across 
the  rivd-,  the  Canadian  biastern  Railway,  and 
the  (libson  brancii  of  tJie  Canadian  lacilic 
Railway,  all  owe  their  existence  in  a  large 
nieasurc  to  his  energy  and  public  s|)irit. 

Although  i)ast  threescore  and  ten,  .Mr.  Cib- 
scjii  is  in  perfect  health,  due  to  his  splendid 
constitution  and  to  the  fact  tlint  he  .ives 
wisely  and  observes  tiie  laws  of  temperance 
and  regularity.  lie  is  always  at  his  post,  and 
will  federate  no  neglect  of  duty  on  the  part  of 


those  around  him.  A  man  of  kindly  and  gen- 
erous impulses,  many  persons  and  causes  have 
profited  by  his  benevolence  without  knowing 
the  source.  When  he  has  done  with  tiiis  lile, 
his  niouMnunt  will  i.e  the  town  that  his  genius 
called  into  existence,  and  the  record  of  a  life 
of  honorable  toil  and  service  to  his  fellow-men. 
These  few  facts  in  regard  to  his  life  and 
career  were  largely  obtained  through  the  kincl- 
ness  of  Ml,  .\.  M.  lielding,  o|  tiie  .St.  John 
PhHy  Sun. 


DWARU  'f.  TRrri'lS,*  Taymaster  of  the 
Inteiiolonial  Railway  Company,  is  a 
well-known  and  higiily  esteemed  cili/en  of 
Moncton,  N.  H.  A  son  of  Abel  (i.  Trites,  he 
w.is  born  on  li\e  home  farm  in  I'etitcodiae, 
N.n.,  in  1.S44.  He  comes  of  substantial  I'^ng- 
lish  stuck,  his  paternal  giandfather,  Lewis 
Trites,  having  been  born  and  brought  up  in 
England.  When  a  )onng  man  Lewis  emi- 
grated to  .America,  and,  b.i\ing  located  in  New 
Hrunswick,  reieived  fiom  the  Imperial  (iovern- 
nient  a  tract  of  wild  land  at  what  was  then 
called  "'I'he  Mend,"  but  is  now  more  familiarly 
known  as  Moncton.  A  man  of  great  enterprise 
and  energy,  be  cleared  a  large  portion  of  his 
grant  of  land,  on  whii.b  be  was  subsecpienti)- 
engaged  in  tilling  tiie  soil  until  his  demise. 
Of  his  eight  children,  three  are  now  living  — 
Abel  (i.,    Trunian,  and  Lliza. 

Abel  (i.  Trites  was  born  in  Mniicion  foin- 
score  years  ago,  the  third  child  of  his  parents. 
During  iiis  boyiiood  and  youtii  be  took  p.ut  in 
the  pioneer  labor  of  improving  a  farm,  ami 
soon  became  familiar  with  the  various  branches 


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589 


lly  and  jii'ii- 
caiiscs  luivo 
out  kiU)\vinK' 
ilh  lliis  life, 
at  liis  ^I'liiiiH 
111(1  111'  a   lilt." 

S  IclliiW-llU'll. 

his  life  ami 
iol\  the  kiiiil- 
Ihc    St.    John 


,'master  of  the 
Company,  is  a 
u(l    cili/en    of 

Ci.    Triles,  lie 
11    I'llileotliac, 
ihslaiitial  I''.nf;- 
Ifather,    Lewis 
bronj^ht   up    in 
n    Lewis    ciiii- 
located  in  New 
ipcrial  (loveiii- 
what  was  then 
more  I'amiliaily 
Micat  enterprise 

poitiiin  ol  his 
as  subsecpiently 
itil  his  demise, 
c   now  living  — 

I  Mnneton  four- 
.1  III'  his  parents. 

he  took  part  in 
ni^   a    farm,    and 

varions  hranehes 


of  aj^rienltme.  When  ready  to  settle  in  life, 
he  removed  to  retiteixliae,  where  lu'  l)oii>;ht 
land,  and  eontinucd  in  the  pursuit  in  whieh  he 
was  reared.  As  a  farmer  and  stock  raiser  he 
has  been  very  successful,  and  now,  with  his 
aged  wife,  is  spemlin;;  his  declinin;;  days  in 
comfort  on  the  homestead  whieh  he  has  built 
u|)  by  years  of  unceasing  tcdl.  llis  wife, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Sarah  I'ngslcy,  was 
born  in  I'enoljscoan,  N'.H.,  a  daughter  <if 
Daniel  I'ugslcy.  .She  bore  him  nine  children, 
of  whom  live  survive;  namely,  JMlward  'I'., 
Daniel,  Herbert,  Heresley,  and  Mary.  lioth 
parents  are  members  of  the  Haptist  church. 
The  father  has  always  l)een  a  (Irm  suiiporter  of 
the  i)rincii)les  advanced  by  the  Conservative 
I)arty. 

lulward  T.  'I'ritcs  spent  his  early  life  on  the 
parental  homestead,  and  was  educated  in  the 
l)ublic  schools  of  I'elitcodiac.  Having  no  par- 
ticidar  desire  to  spend  his  life  in  farming;,  he 
learned  telegraphy  when  young,  and  scon  after 
secured  a  situation  with  the  Intercolonial  Rail- 
road Company  as  telegraph  operator  and  station 
agent  at  I'etitcodiac.  rmvinj;  himself  capable 
anil  trustworthy  in  every  respect,  the  company 
subsecpiently  transferred  him  to  the  station  at 
.St.  John,  of  which  be  had  charge  for  seven 
years.  In  1S74  he  was  again  (ironioted,  being 
made  [laymaster  of  liie  road,  with  his  head- 
quarters at  Moncton,  where  he  has  since  re- 
sided. 

Mr.  Trites  has  been  twice  mariied.  His 
lirsl  wife,  in  niaidenhood  Miss  Ceori^ie  Ham- 
hill,  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-four,  leaving;  no 
children.         He     subse((Uently     married     Miss 


Susan  LeavitI,  b\  whom  he  has  had  eight  chil- 
dren, o|  whom  si.\  are  li\ing;  namely,  Ldward, 
Lewis,  Mabel,  Clifford,  Helen,  and  Morris. 
Mr.  Trites  is  a  coninumicant  of  the  J'Ipiseopal 
church,  while  Mrs.  Trites  is  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  church. 


^. 


.\nii;l    w.X'ison    nkwcomh,* 

sniierinteiident  of  the  i)rancli  lines 
of  the  .\tlantic  di\ision  of  the  Cana- 
dian I'acific  Railway,  has  heaiNiuarters  at 
Woodstock,  N.H.  He  was  born  May  3,  1.S63, 
at  Weymouth,  N.S. ,  son  of  Charlton  Ncw- 
c  ;',ib,  and  is  the  descendant  of  an  early  pio- 
neer of  that  section  of  the  Provinces. 

The  founder  of  the  Newcomb  family  iii 
.America  was  Cajjtain  .Andrew  Newcond),  the 
master  of  a  sailing  vessel,  who  came,  it  is 
thoi:ght,  from  the  west  of  baif^land.  In  I^is- 
ton,  Mass.,  in  1663,  he  married  for  his  second 
wife  Grace,  widow  of  William  Ricks.  His 
siguatiu'e  to  his  will,  which  is  on  fde  at  the 
Registry  of  I'robate  for  Sutfolk  Comity,  Mas- 
sachusetts, shows  him  to  have  been  a  good 
l)enman.  Mr.  Newcomb's  line  of  descent  from 
this  early  ancestor  is:  Andrew,'  Andrew,' 
.Simnn,' John,-'  John, '^  Joseph,''  Daniel  Webs- 
ter,' Charlton\  l'"or  this  and  the  followinj; 
records  we  are  indebted  mainly  to  the  New- 
cond) I''amily  Cenealogy. 

His  son,  Lieutenant  Andrew-  .Newcond),  was 
born  about  \C)^o,  :ind  in  July,  1666,  was  a  resi- 
dent of  New  Ln.nland,  probably  livin;^  at  or 
near  the  Isles  of  Shoals,  where  he  was  a  Con- 
stable in  i^/i.      In  1675  he  settled  at   lulgar- 


town,  on  Martha's  \'ineyarc1,  where  he  died 
when  about  sixty-five  years  old.  He  was  Fore- 
man of  Jury  in  1681,  Foreman  of  the  Grand 
Jury  in  Marih,  1704,  and  on  April  13,  1691, 
was  ehosen  Lieutenant,  and  placed  in  connnand 
of  fortification  on  the  island. 

Simon  Newcomh '  was  horn  ahout  1666, 
probably  at  Kittery,  Me.,  and  four  years  later 
went  with  his  parents  to  Apjdedore  Island, 
where  he  lived  until  the  removal  of  the  family 
to  Fdgartown.  In  1713  he  settled  with  his 
wife  and  children  in  Lebanon,  Conn.,  where 
he  resided  until  his  death,  January  20,  174.1. 
His  wife,  Deboraii,  wiioin  he  married  about 
1687,  died  June  16,  1756,  in  the  .linety-.see- 
ond  year  of  her  age. 

Deacon  John  Newcomh, ^  who  was  born  in 
Martha's  \'ineyard,  Mass.,  about  iTiSS,  mar- 
ried, September  23,  1709,  Alice,  who  was 
born  in  1689,  at  the  Vineyard,  daughter  of 
Jonathan  Luinbert.  'J'hey  removed  to  Leb- 
anon, Conn.,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the 
First  Cluuch  on  Marcli  3,  1715,  and  his  wife 
on  June  S,  171S.  Ui)on  the  organization  of 
the  Second  Church,  he  joined  it,  and  became 
its  first  Deacon,  a  |)osition  which  he  iield  until 
his  removal  to  Cornwallis,  N.  S.,  in  lyCtO. 
lie  took  the  ficcnian's  oath  at  Lebanon,  and 
was  elected  Surveyor  of  Highways  in  1725, 
and  Selectman  in  1744.  He  died  in  Corn- 
wallis, N.S.,  I'"ebruary  22,  1765,  and  his 
widow  passed  away  at  the  sanie  place  January 
8,   1767. 

John  Newcomh,'  born  July  29,  1720,  in 
what  is  now  called  Columbia,  Conn.,  hut  then 
known  as  Lebanon,  received  by  gift  in   1745  a 


part  of  the  jiarcntal  homestead,  a  farm  t.i  fifty 
acr' s.  On  June  5,  1747,  he  married  Mercy, 
daughter  of  Timothy  Harnaby,  of  Plymouth, 
Mass.  Timothy  Harnaby  was  a  son  of  Stephen 
and  Ruth  (Morton)  JJarnaby,  and  grandson  of 
James  Uarnab)',  whose  wife,  Lydia,  was  a 
daughter  of  the  early  Plymouth  Colonist, 
Robert  l^ntlett,  wiio  came  ovei-  in  the  "Ann  " 
in  1623.  Ill  1760  John  Newconii)  and  his 
father  and  their  wives  sold  their  lands  for  the 
sum  of  five  hundred  and  fifty  iiounds,  antl  re- 
n'oved  to  Cornwallis,  N.S. ,  where  they  arrived 
|)rior  to  ( )ctober  12  of  that  year.  He  was  one 
of  the  original  grantees  of  that  town  in  1761, 
and  ajijiears  to  have  been  a  leader  among  the 
settlers.  His  wife  died  March  27,  1776,  and 
he  afterwards  married  a  widow,  l\Irs.  Deborah 
Miller.  Joseph  Newcomb''  was  born  m  Leb- 
anon, now  C'olumbia,  Conn.,  July  5,  175 1, 
and  when  nine  years  old  came  with  his  jiarents 
to  Cornwallis,  N.  S. ,  where,  on  April  6,  1774, 
he  married  Catherine,  daughter  of  Caleb  Kand. 
Fn  tiiat  place  they  both  passed  their  remaining 
vears,  iiis  ileath  occurring  .April  17,  1S32,  ami 
hers  March  17,  1831.  The  following  lines 
are  taken  from  a  testimonial  to  his  worth: 
"He  v.as  ol'  kindl\-  disjiosition,  affectionate  in 
iiis  nature,  religiously  disposed,  moral  in  bis 
habits,  rigidly  honest  in  his  dealings  —  traits 
of  the  N'ewcomi)  fan)il)'.  " 

Daniel  Webster  Newcomb,^  Mr.  Newcomb's 
])aternal  grandfather,  was  born  in  Cornwallis, 
N.S.,  April  7,  1786,  and  died  b'cbruary  17, 
183 1.  In  his  earl)-  life  he  was  a  seafaring 
man,  but  in  after  years  a  siiipiiuilder  and 
owner.     He  married  Nancy,  daugiuer  of  David 


Hi    .i: 


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59  > 


rm  i.i  fifty 
led  Mercy, 
riymoiith, 
of  Steplicn 
"ranilsDii  of 
dill,    was    a 
h    Colonist, 
the  "Ann" 
^^h   anil    bis 
inds  for  the 
nds,  and   ro- 
they  arrived 
He  was  one 
wn   in   1 76 1, 
r  anionj;  the 

7,  177^'.  -^"^1 
ilrs.  Deborah 
born  in  Leb- 

ily  S.  '751. 
h  his  parents 
ipril  6,   1774. 

Caleb  Rand. 
cir  remaininj; 
17,  1S32,  and 
1  lowing  lines 
.0  his  wiirtb  : 
d'fectionatc   in 

moral    in   his 
rlings  — trails 

Ir.  Newcomb's 
in  Cornwallis, 
1  l-'ebruary  17, 
as  a  seafaring 
ni])builder  and 
ighter  of  Davitl 


Lyons,  their  union  being  solemnized  April  8, 
1 8 19.  She  was  one  of  three  .sisters  that  mar- 
ried three  brothers.  Slie  was  Jjorn  in  Corn- 
wallis, and  there  died  in  early  womanhood, 
March  16,  1.S25.  Her  widowed  husl)and  mar- 
ried for  his  second  wife,  October  17,  1827, 
Charity  Grant.  She  was  horn  at  Weymouth, 
N.  S.,  October  7,  1807,  a  daughter  of  David 
Grant. 

Charlton  Newconib"  was  born  March  i, 
1830,  in  Cornwallis,  N.  S.,  and  was  there  edu- 
cated. In  early  manhood  he  removed  to  Wey- 
mouth, where  he  learned  the  shipbuilder's 
trade,  and  subsequently  became  quite  a  large 
vessel  owner  ami  also  an  extensive  farmer. 
He  was  prominent  in  social  and  business  cir- 
cles, and  was  for  many  years  a  leading  mem- 
ber of  the  J5aptist  church,  which  he  served  as 
Deacon,  and  was  also  suiicrintenilent  of  the 
Sunday-school.  His  death,  on  October  g, 
1897,  was  mournetl  by  many  friends,  (^n  De- 
cember 20,  1854,  he  married  Rachel,  who  was 
born  in  Weymouth,  August  24,  1831,  daugh- 
ter ()'■  I'.noch  Grant.  Imvc  children  were  the 
fruit  of  this  union,  namely:  Georgiana,  born 
No\eml)er  3,  1856,  now  the  wulow  of  tiie  late 
Captain  J.  S.  lirooks,  and  residing  in  Wey- 
mouth; Augusta,  born  August  24,  1S59,  who 
is  the  widow  of  the  late  Captain  Gortlon  J. 
Ross,  of  Lynn,  Mass.  ;  iMuma  I'".,  born  July 
25,  1S61,  now  the  widow  of  l'"reeman  Nichol, 
late  of  Weymouth;  Daniel  Watson;  and 
Charles  Alfred,  born  September  2,  1868,  who 
is  a  resident  of  Lynn,  Mass. 

Daniel   Watson   Xewcomb  was  educated    in 
the  common  schools  of  Weymouth,  and  subse- 


quently was  employed  as  clerk  in  a  general 
store  for  a  year.  In  1881,  after  returning  from 
a  [deasure  trip  to  ICngland,  he  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  the  St.  John  and  Maine  Railway  Com- 
pany as  telegr;'ph  o[)urator,  a  [losition  which  be 
resignetl  al  the  end  of  si.\  months  to  become 
assistant  station  agent  at  St.  Stejihen,  N.H. , 
a  station  on  what  was  then  the  New  Brunswick 
and  Canada  Railway,  but  is  now  a  part  of  the 
Canadian  I'acific  .system.  In  November,  1883, 
he  was  transferred  to  the  despatcher's  office  of 
the  New  Urunswick  Railway  at  St.  John, 
where  he  lemained  until  the  road  was  taken  by 
the  present  management ;  and  he  was  ai)])ointed 
in  March,  1897,  to  his  present  responsible 
position,  with  headquarters  at  Woodstock. 
Tiiree  hundred  and  seventy-five  miles  of  this 
roail  are  under  his  direct  supervision,  and,  it  is 
needless  to  say,  are  thoroughly  cared  for. 

Mr.  Newcomb  married  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Alexander  Caird,  who  emigrated  from  Scot- 
land to  St.  Joh'i,  N.  1?,  and  they  have  one 
child,  Marguerite.  Fraternally,  Mr.  New- 
comb  is  a  mendjcr  of  'Inion  Lodge,  K.  ol  1'., 
of  St.  John.  He  attends  the  I'resbyterian 
church,  of  which  Mrs.  Newcomb  is  a  memi)er. 


HOMAS  HILYARD,*  <me  of  the  most 
prominent  shipbuilders  of  St.  John  in 
bis  day,  was  born  in  this  city  October  10, 
1810,  S(ni  of  'I'liomas,  Si.,  ami  Margaret 
(Miles)  Hilyard.  His  father,  who  jirobably 
came  from  Devonsliire,  Lngland,  was  a  sea- 
captain,  and  sailed  in  the  employ  of  the  Har- 
lows,  who  were  at  that  time  the   leading  mer- 


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chants  of  St.  John.  Thoiras  HilyanI,  Sr., 
died  March  13,  1816.  His  wife,  Margaret, 
whom  he  married  in  1S09,  was  a  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Margaret  Miles.  Her  mother  was 
horn  in  Cork,  Ireland,  aiul  was  first  married  to 
Captain  I'ayne  of  the  liritish  army.  This 
marriage  so  displeased  Mrs.  Payne's  parents 
tiiat  they  disowned  her,  and  she  accompanied 
her  luishand  to  America,  wiiere  Captain  l'a)ne 
served  with  iiis  regiment  in  the  Revolutionary 
War  until  his  death.  Hy  that  union  there 
were  two  children,  a  son  and  a  daughter.  The 
son  was  reared  hy  his  grandfather,  and  the 
daughter  married  a  "Sir.  Doughty,  of  Deer 
Isle,  Me.  Mrs.  Payne  married  for  her  second 
hushand  Thomas  Miles,  who  helonged  to  the 
same  regiment,  and  in  1783  they  .settled  in  St. 
John.  I'Mve  children  were  horn  to  them; 
namely,  John,  'I'homas,  Benjamin,  Margaret, 
and  Xaiic}-.  John  Miles  hecame  a  sea-captain, 
and  settled  in  Liverpool,  England.  He  was 
married  in  St.  John  to  Margaret  Munn,  and 
his  only  daughter  married  a  Mr.  Lewis,  a 
clothier  of  I.iveriiool.  Henjamin  Miles,  who 
is  resiiling  in  Portland,  married  Sarah  Dean, 
of  Deer  Isle,  anil  has  five  children — Pen- 
jamin,  Margaret,  Sally,  Thomas,  and  William. 
Thomas  Miles,  Jr.,  married  Charlotte  Carlo, 
;.n(i  had  a  familv  of  seven  chililren-  -Thomas, 
Mary,  Margaret,  l^lizaheth,  Charlotte,  PHiza, 
and  John.  Thomas,  Sr. ,  and  Margaret  (Miles) 
Hil\ard  were  the  parents  of  three  children, 
namel) ■;  Thomas,  the  suhject  of  this  sketch; 
Richard,  horn  October  -'4,  1812,  who  died  the 
same  year;  and  Margaret,  horn  l'"el)ruary  14, 
1816,   who  married   William    Knigh,    now  de- 


ceased.     The    mother  married  for  her    second 
luishand  Dennis  Si'Uivan. 

Thomas  Ililyard  served  an  apprenticeshi]) 
at  the  ship-carpenter's  trade,  and  followed  it 
as  a  journeyman  for  some  years  prior  to  engag- 
ing in  husincss  for  himself.  He  i)urchased  a 
.saw  mill  in  1853,  and  for  nearly  twenty  years 
carried  on  an  extensive  lumher  manufacturing 
and  ship-building  business.  He  was  identified 
with  the  last-named  industry  during  its  iialmy 
days,  and  the  fcjllowing  are  some  of  the  notable 
merchantmen  constructed  in  his  yards:  the 
"Ocean  Home,"  launched  Novembers,  1859, 
and  sold  in  I'.ngland;  the  "luldystone, " 
launched  in  1860;  the  "Attila,"  "Salani," 
and  the  "Kaniea,"  in  1861  ;  the  "Cavour"  in 
1862;  the  "Kannte, "  "  l-'rederick,"  "Mass- 
kobre, "  and  "Lmpress  of  the  .Seas,"  in  l8r)3; 
the  "Hrunette"  (fifteen  hundred  tons),  the 
"Isabella"  (a  harc|ue),  and  the"Sumr(Kl"  in 
1864;  the  "Timiir"  in  1865;  the  "March" 
and  the  "  i'loivntine '  in  1866;  the  hartiue 
"Matilda  Ililyard"  in  1868;  the  "Clara"  in 
1871;  the  "Ahluiiet,"  the  "Albania,"  and 
the  "Lightning"  in  187J.  He  also  con- 
structed at  great  exjiense  a  marine  railway  for 
repairing  vessels.  The  substantial  and  thor- 
oughly w(]ri<nKmlike  inanner  which  ibaiacter- 
ized  his  slii|)s  gained  for  him  a  liigh  re|uitation 
in  marine  eitcles,  and  some  of  his  earlier  craft 
are  still  [laying  good  returns  to  their  owners. 
Thomas  ililyard  died  June  22,  1872.  He  was 
at  one  time  a  \'estryman  of  the  old  (irace 
Church,  but  later  served  in  the  same  capacity 
in  St.  Luke's  Church.  He  was  an  earnest  ad- 
vocate of  temperance. 


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licr    second 

prcnticcship 
followutl   it 
ioi-  to  cngaK- 
luircliascd  ;i 
twenty  years 
lamifacturiiiK 
,vas  idcnliliecl 
njr  its  palmy 
){  tb.c  notable 
s    yards:    the 
mbcr  5,  iSS9. 
'  ICddystonc, 
,"    "Salam," 
"Cavour"  in 
ick,"    "  Mass- 
Ms, "  in  18G3; 
cd    tons),    the 
"Suniriid  "  in 
the  "March" 
f);    the    barque 
he  "Clara"  in 
Albania,"    and 
He    also    Con- 
ine railway  for 
ntial   and  tluir- 
'liich   character- 
hi.^h  reputation 
his  earlier  craft 
:o  their  owners. 
1872.      He  was 
the    old    Grace 
e  same  capacity 
as  an  earnest  ad- 


!\Ir.  llilyard  muiried  Matilda  Dyer.  They 
were  the  parents  of  thirteen  tiiildren;  namely, 
I.  retta,  'I'homas  K.,  Charles  IC  ,  Marj^aret, 
iManccs,  Henry,  JMedcriik  .S.,  Herman, 
luKvin  J.,  I'lmnia,  Aithiir  II.,  llerliert,  and 
William.  I.oretta,  Charles  ]■'..,  Mar-aret,  and 
Ileiinan  are  no  lonjjier  livin;;.  'I'homas  K. 
llilyard  is  in  the  lumber  business  in  St.  John. 
Marj;aret  was  the  wife  nf  A.  .\.  .Shaw. 
l"'ranccs  is  the  wife  of  W.  II.  Smith.  h'led- 
erick  S.  llilyard  is  pdstmaster  in  l-'redericton, 
N.  li.  lulwin  J.  llilyai'd  resides  in  lloultcjn. 
Me.  Emma  is  the  wife  nf  C.  S.  I'vobertson, 
New  York  City.  Artliur  II.,  Herbert,  and 
William  are  in  business  in  New  \'()rk.  The 
mother  died  in  January,  iSfjG,  ayed  seventy- 
seven  years. 

Henry  llilyard  was  born  in  i,<^iS.  His 
early  education,  obtained  in  .St.  John,  was  su]i- 
plemented  by  a  professional  course  at  the  Law 
School  of  Harvard  University,  where  he  re- 
ceived the  degree  <if  Bachelor  of  Laws  in  1S70. 
He  continued  the  study  of  law  in  the  nlTice  of 
Messrs.  Hyard  &  Thompson,  St.  John,  and 
after  his  admission  as  an  attorney  in  1S71  he 
went  to  Kngland.  I'lKin  his  return  in  the  ful- 
jowing-  year  he  l)ecame  associated  with  iiis 
father,  whose  death  occurred  shortly  afterward. 
In  company  with  his  brother,  Thomas  K.,  he 
.succeeded  to  the  business,  and  the  llilyard 
brothers  built  tlie  "Thdinas  llilyard,"  tlie 
"Abard,"  the  "  l-lcuador, "  the  Antrawa,"  the 
"Anglo  American,"  the  ".Xnglo  Indian,"  and 
the  "Areold. "  i'lir  the  past  twenty  yeais 
thc>  iiave  ,!;iven  their  attention  to  the  repair- 
inii  of  vessels,  the  lumber  manufacturing  busi- 


ness, and  til  their  property  ii\terests,  which 
consist  nf  timber  lands,  shipiiing,  etc. 

In  1S76  Henry  llilyard  married  Miss 
Theresa  McDonald,  daughter  of  Arthur  :\Ic- 
Donald,  a  ship  buikler  of  this  city.  The)' 
have  one  sin,  C.eorge. 

Mr.  llilyard  has  been  tpiite  active  in  nnmi- 
cipal  affairs,  and  was  Mayor  of  the  city  for  one 
yeai-.  He  belongs  to  the  Independent  Order 
(if  Odd  h'elldws,  and  has  occujiied  the  jirin- 
cipal  chairs  in  the  local  lodge.  He  is  a  prom- 
inent churchman,  and  a  Warden  of  St.  Luke's 
Chinch. 


''CHU/iI.  STIRLING,*  brass  founder  and 
^Ys_  linisher,  of  St.  John,  N.  li.,  was 
born  in  that  city  in  1864,  son  of  James  and 
Rebecca  (Uoak)  Stirling.  James  Stirling  was 
one  of  the  most  pioniinent  contractors  and 
Iniilders  in  St.  John,  to  which  place  lie  came 
fidni  his  native  town  of  Galashiels,  Scotland. 
Among  some  of  the  more  important  buildings 
erected  by  him  may  be  'cntioned  the  govern- 
ment post-office  building,  St.  Andrews  I'resby- 
.crian  ciiurch,  tlie  railway  passenger  station, 
Calvary  Ciiurcli,  tiie  \'alley  Church,  Cushiiig's 
mill,  and  the  Gushing  residence  on  Oueen's 
Street.  His  work  was  all  done  by  contract 
from  foundation  to  finish.  His  wife,  Rebecca 
Doak  Stirling,  a  iiati\e  of  Iieland,  came  to 
New  lirnnswick  with  hei-  mother's  family  when 
a  child.  Her  mother's  brother,  William  Doak, 
estahlished  the  first  brass  foundry  in  St.  John, 
it  having  been  located  on  Water  Street,  on  the 
site  of  the  jiresent  foundry  of  the  sidiject  of 
this    sketch.      .Mrs.    Stirling's    father    died    in 


S94 


BIOGRAPHICAL   REVIEW 


Irclaiul.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stirling  were  the 
parents  of  four  cliiUlren:  Kosanna,  wife  (if 
John  Hauer,  of  St.  John;  Jessie  May;  James, 
a  harness-maker  of  St.  John  ;  and  W.  1 1. ,  whose 
name  begins  this  si<etch.  Tiie  father,  James 
Stirlinj;,  retired  from  iiusiness  in  icS88  and 
resides  in  St.  Jolin.  lie  is  a  member  of  tlie 
St.  Andrew's  Society.      His  wife  died   in   No- 


vember, 


1 898. 


W.  II.  Stirlinf{  learned  hi?<  trade  in  the  city 
)f    New    \'()rk,    and    snl)sec|uently    worked    for 


fifteen  years  as  a  jonrneyman.  In  1893  he  es- 
tal)lislied  his  present  inisiness,  which  is  in 
a  nourishing  condition.  He  does  all  kinds  of 
brass  work,  besides  siii|)-plumbing.  One  of 
the  chief  jirodiicts  of  his  factory  is  the  "Niag- 
ara "  injector,  of  which  he  is  the  inventor  and 
patentee,  and  of  which  he  manufactures  a  lar^e 
quantity  yearly,  fnulinf,'  a  ready  market  in  all 
parts   of    the    Dominion. 


With    an    excellent 


business   reputation,    he 


;ink 


s   as   one    o 


f   the 


jeadiu'r  manufacturers  of  St.  Johr 


1 893  ^■'C  ^^■ 
•liich  is  in 
ill  kinds  of 
,r.      One    >if 

the  "NiaK- 
iivcntor  and 
tuies  a  large 
larket  in  all 
\n    excellent 

one    of    tlic 


INDEX. 


BIOGRAPHICAL. 


A. 


Allan,  Harris 

Allen,  Jolin  Can)|)l)ell  .  . 
Allen,  Thomas  Carleton  . 
Allison,  Jamus  Fretk-rick  . 

Ahvard,  Silas 

Anderson,  James  .... 
Anderson,  Josiali  J.  .     .     . 
Anderson,  'I'lionias  Klie-se 
Appleby,  .Stephen  ISurpee 
.Arnold,  Oliver  Roswell 
Arnold,  R.  Ileber      .     .     . 
Atkinson,  James  Smith 
Austin,  Henry  A.      ... 
Austin,  M.  Douglas  .    .    . 


liaird,  George  F.  .     . 
liarber,  James  .     .     . 
liarker,  Frederic  K.  . 
Harlow,  Thomas   .     . 
iiarnliill,  William  . 
Harry,  Thomas      .     . 
Bates,  J'.dward 
Haxter,  James  McCirei; 
llayard,  William 
Hebbington,  John,  Sr. 
lieer,  ICdwin  Bond     . 
Henson,  Joseph  lilaek 
lllack   John  .... 
lilaek,  Joseph  1..  .     . 
IJlair,  Andrew  George 


2i;2 
A72 
33' 
450 
47 
574 
55^' 
4>5 

,S9| 
3'2! 
453 
344 
337 
i 


4801 

202 

I 

59; 

280  I 
128 

1 82 

25s 

102 

37 
2.;o 
1 1 1 
263 
461 
237 
320. 


Blair,  Thomas  B. .  .  . 
Borden,  Robert  Allison 
liostwiek,  Charles  Merritt 
Bowman,  William  Henry 
Boyd,  Robert  James  .  . 
Brewster,  Gilbert .  .  . 
Brown,  James  .... 
Burden,  Oliver  I'^arl  .  . 
Bustin,  Stephen  li.    .     . 


Camp,  Wellington 
Campbell,  I'eter 
Carritte,  De  Blaviere 
Carter,  Charles  I.. 
Chipnian,  Ward 
Christie,  Ale.xander 
Clark,  Charles  A. . 
Clark,  Joseph  Sutton 
Clark,  William      . 
Clarke,  Clement  I'eckli 
Climo.  John  S. .     . 
Clinch,  I).  Carlton 
Clinch,  I'eter    .     . 
Collin,  General 
Coll,  James  .     .     . 
Coll,  Michael    .     . 
Colpitis,  Robert    . 
Colwell,  Frederic  C 
Colwell,  William  . 
Connell,  .\llison  Harlow 
Connell,  Heniy  .\uguslus 


|'A(;b 

577 
585 
521 

271 
458 

5'>7 
275 

427 
55° 


i  Connolly,  'I'homas 
Connors,  James  F.    . 

'  Coulthard,  George  I'.. 
Crandall,  Joseph  .  . 
Crothers,  Samuel 
Currie,  James  Russell 
Gushing,  AUston  .  . 
Gushing,  Andre    .    . 


471 

555 
561 
508 
53° 
247 
55S 
578 
168 
66 
548 
167 
566 
523 
275 
275 
143 
352 
18s 
488 
476 


Daniel,  John  W 

Dawson,  David  C.  .  .  . 
Dean,  Thomas  .... 
de  Forest,  George  Sylvester 
de  Forest,  Harry  Wenman 
Desmond,  Francis  J.  .  . 
De  V'eber,  William  Hubbard 
Dever,  Patrick  .... 
Dibblee,  William  Fyler 
Dickinson,  J.imcs  Duncan 

Dickson,  S.  Z 

Di.xon,  James  D 

Dod.i;e,  Alfred 

Doherty,  William      .     .     . 
Dnnl)ar,  .Mexander   .     .     , 

Dunn,  Albert  T 

Dunn,  Klbridge  Gerry  .     , 
Dunn,  R.  C.  John      .     .     , 


F.irle,  Allen  O 

Kmmerson,  Henry  Robert 


227 

233 
496 

>S7 
308 
256 

•57 
156 


246 
53S 
5'7 
323 
324 
152 
53« 
487 
480 

67 
200 
360 
574 
573 
44'; 

87 
289 
28s 


577 
14 


auJBj... 


eaHgwwwawBi 


596 


INDEX 


!    i[ 


I; 


Fairweallier,  Arthur  C. 

55 

Kairweallicr,  Gcorf;e  ImIw 

n 

506 

I'oMcty,  (iforne  I'.ihvaril 

-5 

Kergiison,  Daniel      .     . 

3«' 

Fcrfjiisiin,  John  C.     .     . 

549 

IMiiIey,  Joseph  .... 

^5i 

h'ish,  Cliarle.s  IC.  .     .     . 

254 

Fislier,  Charles     .     .     . 

146 

Fleiiiinn;,  James    .     .     . 

402 

KlewelMii};,  I'rank  11.     . 

J.34 

Flood,  John      .... 

325 

Forster,  John  Baker .     . 

208 

Fowler,  Josiah  .... 

i3'^ 

F'owler,  Weeilen  .     .     . 

5'>i 

Fowler,  Willi.ini  II,.     . 

559 

Fraser,  Donald     .     .     . 

4'ii 

P'raser,  John  James  .     . 

3° 

Q. 


H. 

Hale,  Frederick  II.  .  . 
Il.dl,  Stephen  .S.  .  .  . 
Haiiiiltoii,  James  I'.  .  . 
Hamm,  Joseph  1!.  .  . 
Hamm,  M.Utliias  .  .  . 
Hannay,  Jame.s  .  .  . 
Hanson,  I'riah  Kuhert  . 
Harding,  Charles  luhvard 
Harding,  John  Henry     . 


( Gallagher,  Hugh  .     .     . 

4(16 

Gallagher,  Michael    .     . 

3-f- 

(laynor,  James      .     .     . 

28 1 

Gaynor,  William  Cleopha.s 

363 

( ieorge,  Charles  \V. 

'37 

(;eorge,  William  F.  .     . 

276 

Gibson.  Alexander    .     . 

,86 

Gilbert,  George  Godl'rev 

345 

c;ilbert,  James  S. .     .     . 

237 

Gilbert,  Thomas  .     .     . 

88 

Gilchrist,  John      .     .     . 

28f> 

Godsoe,  Frank  Amos    . 

207 

Gooden,  Kdward  C.  .     . 

.3S2 

(liiodwin,  .\rtluir  Leslie 

368 

( iordon,  John  James 

158 

CJrieves,  John  llrooke    . 

5'7 

513 

305 
404 
26 1 

98 

423 
422 

I  12 
30' 


Harrison,  Jeremiah   .     .     . 
Harri.son,  William  Frederick 
Harrison.  William  Gray 
Harrison,  William  Henry 
Hartley,  J.  Chipman 
Hatfield,  Samuel  Fairweatlit 
Hay,  George  l|)ham     . 
Hay,  William  Wallace  . 
Hayward,  Il.irvey  I'. 
Hayuard,  S.imuel      .     . 
Hayward,  William  H.    . 
Hetheririglon,  George  .\. 
Hevnor,  ( lideon    .     .     . 
Hickman,  William    .     . 
Hilyard,  'I'honias  .     .     . 
Hocken,  Richard  .     .     . 
Holly,  James    .... 
Holstead,  Alfred  K.  .     . 
Humphrey,  William  F. 


Inches,  .Andrew  Small  . 
Inches,  Jidiiis  l.cGendre 
Inches,  I'eter  Kohertson 


J- 

Jack,  David  Willi, im      .     . 

Jack,  lulward 

Jack,  Isaac  .Allen  .... 
Jack,  William  lirydone 
Jarvis,  Charles  I'dw.ird  Leon 
Jarvis,  William  .Mnnson  . 
Johnson,  John  .Mercer  .  . 
Jones,  Andrew  II.  .  .  . 
Jones,  ICdward  Charles  .  . 
Jones,  Frederic  A.  .  .  . 
Jones,  Cleorge  West  .     .     . 

Jones,  Oliver 

Jones,  Thomas  K.  ... 
Jones,  Wilfred  T.  .  .  . 
Jordan,  Daniel 


rd 


K. 

Kaye,  James  Josi  ph  . 
Keast,  John  W. 
Kennedy,  Iklwaiii  J. 


332 

559  j 

IW 

293 

201 

296 

443 

371 

146 

518 

145 

529  i 

584 

I  Si 

591 
569; 

71 

194 

74 


99 

419 

33 


428 

532 

9 

117 
5''3 

27 
571 
'25 

67 
462 

299 

12(. 
42 

507 
396 


1 

5" 
272 
187! 


Kennedy,  James    .... 
Kenney,  Frank  Lincoln 

Kerr,  Robert 

Kerr,  Samuel 

Ketclunn,  ll/ekiel  li.irlow  . 
Kelcluim,  (ieorge  William 
Ketchum,  Kich.ird  Henjamin 
Killam,  Amasa  Kmer-son  . 
Kmgdon.  Ilollingworth  Tu 
Kinnear,  Charles  F.  .  .  . 
Knapp.  Charles  F.  .  .  . 
Knight,  Leonard  I!.  .  .  . 
Knowles,  ICdivard  T.  C. 
Kno.\,  James 


Le  Lacheur,  John      .     .     . 
Leonard,  W.dter  F.  .     .     , 

Lindsay,  John  .A 

Lockhart,  William  Albert 

Lordly.  .Albert  J 

Lordly,  Sterling  I!.    .     .     . 
I.ovett,  Arlliur  Welleslev  . 


M. 

Mabee.  Alfred  A.       .     .     . 
Macdonald,  Charles  .Abner 
Mackenzie,  William  lirouard 
MacLean,  Arthur  i!.      .     . 
.Maher,  Joseph  1).      ... 

.Maltby,  Richard  I 

M.tltby,  Thomas  .... 
Markham,  /Mfred  .  .  . 
Marshall.  Robert       .     .     . 

ALirven.  llliss  A 

Maunsell,  ( ieorge  J.  .  . 
,\Lixwell,  I  lenry  .... 
Maxwell,  Robert  .... 
McAlary,  Joseph  W.  .  . 
Mc.Alpine,  ICdwin  II.  .  . 
McAvenney,  .Andrew  I'rancis 
McAvity  Family,  The  .  . 
McCormick,  Daniel  W. 
McDonald,  James  (1.  .  . 
McDonald,  Montesquieu  . 
Mcl'arl.Mie,  I'etcr  .  .  . 
McGafligan,  James  J.  .  . 
Mcluerney.  James  I'eterson 


"73 

339 
581 
378 

80 

35« 
248 

34 
10 

542 

188 

84 
121 
295 


212 

267 
349 

374 
576 
573 
3«' 


354 
195 

20() 

13'' 
179 
44S 

447 
"'7 
I3'S 
i"3 
5''4 

I  In; 

249 

557 
"S> 

208 

3V 
534 
466 
107 
442 
3,So 

444 


ElB 


INDEX 


597 


I'AciK 

173 

1     .    ■    • 

339 

58. 

378 

ow  .     .     • 

80 

ill  111     . 

35« 

ijaniin 

248 

on   .     • 

34 

1  Tiilly 

10 

542 

.     188 

.      84 

L".     .     • 

121 

. 

.      2.JS 

•            •            •            • 

212 

267 

349 

lljurt       . 

374 

576 

•     573 

sley  .     . 

•     3«i 

354 
'95 

20(< 

'3'' 

17') 

44'^ 

447 
i''7 
138 
K'3 
5''4 
[6.; 
249 
557 

15' 

208 

3'<7 
534 
466 
107 
442 
380 
444 


McKeari,  (Jeorge  .     .     . 
McKeowii,  Harrison  A. 
McKeown,  lli/.ckiali 
iMcLaiifililin,  John  I'.     . 
Mcl.fllan,  David  .     .     . 
McLcinl,  ICzckitl  .     .     . 
iMclA'dd,  Jdlin  .... 
McMillan,  John    .     .     . 
McKol)crts,  David     .     . 
McSweeney,  GcorjjL' 
McSwecncy,  I'dcr    .     . 
Men/ies,  John  .... 
Merritt,  (labriel    .     .     . 
Miller,  Charks      .     .     . 
Miller,  lulwnrd  Win.slow 
Miller,  Henry  I'sher 
Mitchell,  Teler     .     .     . 
Moore,  Frederick      .     . 
Morgan,  I'atrick   .     .     . 
Morrison,  William  .Sonime 
Mullin,  Daniel      ... 
.Murdoch,  Robert  A. 
Miirdock,  luhvard  S.     . 
Murdock,  William     .     . 
Murray,  Sulher  Corhcit 
Murray,  Robert     .     . 
Myers,  William  Frederick 


rAr.8 
568 
250 
253 
'32 

105 
568 
106 
352 
3'7 
'76 
'75 
407 
191 

544 

2  20 

242 

;77 

3'4 

560 
170 
215 
505 

180 

4^'5 

rx> 

212 


I'alnier,  Acalu.s  l.ockwood 

18 

I'almcr,  Charles  Arthur 

20 

I'atcr.soii,  Robert  liis.sell 

149 

I'ear.son,  (leorne  Nelson 

120 

I'eck,  Charles  .\.  .     .     . 

570 

I'eck,  John  Lewis      .     . 

'35 

I'eters,  Charles  11.    .     . 

2O2 

Peters,  Georj,'e  C.     .     . 

3'« 

Peters   Ilurd    .... 

61 

Peters,  William     .     .     . 

3" 

I'owell,  Henrv  A.      .     . 

49° 

Prescott,  (leorge  D. 

484 

Prescott,  (;ideon  Knight 

'3' 

I'rescott,  Isaac  Clayton 

479 

Preston,  Ilenrv  Canlield 

364 

Prince,  John     .... 

76 

Pugsley,  William       .     . 

537 

Pullen,  James  H.  .     .     . 

3«5 

Purdy,  John  Dean     .     . 

144 

N. 

Nase,  David  II 224 

Nase,  Harry  ISiunswick     .     .     .  318 

Nase,  Philip 12 

Neill,  James  Steuart      ....  n/) 

Newcoinb,  Daniel  Watson     .     .  5.S9 

Nicholson,  Robert 499 

Niven,  John 403 

Northrup  Family,   The  ....  545 


O. 

O'P.rien,  John 3<)2 

D'Connell,  David 239 

Odell,  Charles 420 

Ogden,  Amos 300 

O'Neil,  Daniel 351 

O'Neil,  John 351 

Otty,  (leorge  O.  Dickson  .     .     .  400 

Otty,  Henry  I'hipps 186 


I  Uiintoii.  William  .\. 


Randall,  Fdward  Clark 
Randolph,  Archibald  Fitz 
Rankin,  William  Donald 
Rankine,  Thomas      .     . 
Raymond.  William  K.    . 
Reynolds,  James  .     .     . 
Reynolds,  William  Kilby 
Reynolds,  William  Kilby, 
Ricliey,  James       .     .     . 
Ried.  Frederick  P.    .     . 
Ritchie,  Robert  J.      .     . 
Rubertson  Coini)any,  The  J 
Robertson,  (ieorge    .     . 
Robertson,  James  C. 
Robinson,  Ale.\ander 
Robinson,  ClilTord  W.  . 
Robinson,  James  .     .     . 
Robinson.  Thomas  Willia 
Rowan,  Joseph      .     .     . 
Ruddock,  Joseph  M. 
Ruel,  James  Rhodes 
Russell,  James  Wniier 
Ryan,  Michael       .     .     . 


216 


72 

2S'* 

39' 

152 
81 
468 
40S 
4" 
457 
421 

343 

357 

ISO 

94 
526 

543 
427 
3'3 
45 
492 
302 


8. 

.Sandall,  Fred 262 

Sangster,  ( ieorge  Robert  ...  17 

.Saunders,  William  Shepp.ird  29 

Scammell,  Joseph  Henry  .     .     .  205 

Segee,  Charles  William     .     .     .  340 

Shaw,  .Arthur  N 240 

Shaw,  William lol 

Skinner,  Charles  .\ 97 

Smith,  Charles  Lewis    ....  326 

Smith,  George  F 108 

Smith,  G.  Sidney 20 

Smith,  John  Hlackhall  ....  194 

Smith,  John  Wilson  \oiing   .     .  330 

Spurr,  James  De  Wolfe     .     .     .  582 

Sleeves,  John  1 40 

Stirling,  W.  H 593 

Stockton,  Alfred  Augustus     .     .  335 

.Sturdee,  Henry  Lawrance      .     .  93 

T. 

Tapky,  Daniel  F 125 

Tapley,  David 1 18 

Tapley  Family,  The 399 

Taylor,  Charles  Sloggett  .     .     .  263 

Taylor,  John  M 245 

Tennant,  James 164 

Thomson,  John  H 74 

Thomson,  Robert 74 

Thomson,  Samuel fi5 

Thomson,  William 73 

Triles,  Fdward  1' 5.88 

Trueman,  .Arthur  1 527 

Tuck,  William  Henry   ....  23 

Tweedie,  Lemuel  J 500 


Van  Wart,  Gilbert  William    .     .  114 

\room,  William  K/ra    ....  54 

1 

I  W. 

I  Walker,  James 450 

Walker,  John 495 

I  Walker,  Thomas 503 

I  Ward,  John       546 

Wark,  David 30O 

Warwick,  Orlando  11 174 

Watson,  .\le.\ander  A.  .     .     ,     ,  581 


S98 


IN'DKK 


Watson,  J.  Frederick 
Walt,  (Jeor;;c   .     .     . 
Wulls,  Willinin  Wi)(  iliniry 
While,  'I'honiiis     . 
White.  Thomas  1'. 
Wliitney,  Henry  A. 
Willjiir,  Jiilin    .     . 
Wilkinson,  William 
Williams,  Kainsford  W 


5H4 !  Willis,  Kdward     .     .     . 

311;  I  Williston,  lldward     .     . 

4()    Williston,  luhvard  I'.     . 

372  Wilson,  John  i;.    .     .     . 

373  Wilson,  Le  li.iron     ,     . 
492    Wilson,  William   .     .     . 
264    Winslow,  ICdward  Hyron 
257    Winslow,  J.  Norman  W. 
575    Wood,  Josiah    ... 


552 

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300 

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359 
100 

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Wood,  R.  Dixon 4S 

Woodman,  t'harles  V 62 

Wriglil,  Willard  () 3(;2 

\V\se,  Henry 223 

Wysc,  William 571; 

Y. 

Verva.  Abraham  1) 90 


I'Alill 

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223 

579 


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PORTRAITS. 


I/1I,K                                                                                                      IA..II 

I-AI.R 

Allen,  William  K 473    (".riuvcs,  John  1! 516 

I'rini  e,  John 

77 

Anderson,  Tlionias  K.  . 

4141  lamilton,  James  1".  .     . 

405 

Pnllen,  J.unes  II 

3S4 

I'liiird,  (u'ori^c  !'.  .     .     . 

4.S1     llamm,  Joseph  1!.      .     . 

2f.o 

Ouinlon,  Willi.im  .\ 

217 

l'.,irl)ur,  James  .     .     . 

203    Harrison,  Jeremiah   .     . 

333 

Kankine,  Th(nnas  A 

153 

Ilarkur,  l-'redeiic  K. 

5.S    llay,  William  W.dl.ice  . 

370 

Ke\  nolds,  James 

469 

I'.ainliill,  William 

129;  Hetherlngton,  (ieor;.;e  .^ 

., 

fa 

(in 

n  529 

Uiehey,  Mr.  and  .Mrs.  J.iuus 

45'' 

Harry,  Thomas      .     . 

1  S3  '  Holly,  James    .     .     . 

70 

Rowan,  .\le.\ander  M 

426 

I'laxter,  Janifs  Mc(lrej;( 

r 

103  '  Inches,  Julius  1..  .     . 

41.S 

Ruel,  James  Rhodes      .     .     .     . 

44 

llayard,  William   .     . 

36   Jack,  Isaac  .Mien  .     . 

s 

Russell.  James  \'enner      .     . 

493 

Illack,  Jose])!)  I..  .     . 

236   Jack,  William  Hrydone 

116 

Ryan,  Mii  hael 

303 

Hoslwick,  Charles  M. 

520   Jones,  Frederic  .\.     . 

463 

.Scfjee,  Charles  William 

34' 

I'loyd.  .Mr.  and  .M  rs.   K 

ol. 

irt 

.1. 

Jones,  ( ieor^e  West 

29S 

Skinner,  Charles  \ 

,/, 

and  i;randson     .     . 

459    l.inds.iy,  John  A.  .     . 

34s 

Smith,    .Mr.    and     .Mrs,    Charles 

tarler,  Charles  1..     . 

509    Mahec,  Allred  A. 

355 

Lewis 

327 

Connolly,  Thomas     . 

226    .\laher,  Joseph  I). 

178 

Smith,  ( leorj;e  1- 

109 

Conllhard,  (ieor^je  K. 

407  (  Marshall,  Robert .     . 

139 

•Papley,  Arehibahl  C    L.     .     . 

39S 

Dawson,  UavidC.     . 

539  i  McCormick,  Daniel  VV. 

535    Tapley,  Daniel  F 

'24 

de  Forest,  S.  S.    .     . 

322    McKeown,  Harrison  A 

251    Taylor,  John  M 

244 

Duver,  Patrick      .     . 

4.S6  ;  Mclnerney,  James  P. 

445 

Tennant,  James 

165 

Dixim,  James  I).  .     . 

361    McRoberts,  David    . 

3'6 

Thomson,  Samuel     .... 

64 

Dunn,  .Mlicrt  T.   .     . 

86    Merritt,  G.  Wetmore 

190 

Tuck,  William  Henry    .     .     . 

22 

Dunn,  I'.ll)rid;,'e  (ierry 

.     2S8    Miller,  Henry  Usher 

_'2I 

Walker,  James 

•   451 

Dunn,  K.  C.  John 

.     2.S4    Moore.  Frederick 

376    Walker,  Thomas 

.      502 

i;mmersot»Ji^cnry  Kob 

ert 

1 5    Mullin,  Daniel .     .     . 

171 

Wilbur,  John 

.  265 

l-islier,  Cli#1es    '.     . 

.     147    Neill,  J.imes  .Stewart 

•     '<)7 

Willis.  K.  I.e  Roi      .... 

•     553 

I'orstcr,  John  liaker  . 

.     jocj    OTirien,  John  .     .     . 

■    393 

Wilson,  John  K 

.     269 

P'rascr,  John  James  . 

31    Peck.  John  Lewis 

■     134 

Wood,  Josiah 

•      52 

(ieorjtc  William  !•'.  . 

.     277    Peters,  William     .     . 

.    3'o 

Yerxa,  /\braham  D.       .     .     . 

•      9' 

Gordon,  John  James 

.     159    Preston,  lUlward  A. . 

•     3'''5 

